itching and pain), the toxic Heat from the uterus erupts on the baby's skin in the form of eczema.
Asthma can be explained in the same way as the deficient Essence of the baby fails to root its
Corporeal Soul and therefore its Lungs.
Infancy
The Corporeal Soul, being the closest to the Essence, is responsible for the first physiological
processes after birth. Zhang Jie Bin says: "In the beginning of life ears, eyes and Heart perceive,
hands and feet move and breathing starts: all this is due to the sharpness of the Corporeal
Soul".37(202)
Senses
Later in life, the Corporeal Soul gives us the capacity of sensation, feeling, hearing and sight.
When the Corporeal Soul is flourishing ears and eyes are keen and can register. The decline of
hearing and sight in old people is due to a weakening of the Corporeal Soul.
Zhang Jie Bin says: "The Corporeal Soul can move and do things and [when it is active] pain
and itching can be felt". This shows that the Corporeal Soul is responsible for sesnations and
itching and is therefore closely related to the skin through which such sensations are
experienced. This explains the somatic expression on the skin of emotional tensions which affect
the Corporeal Soul via the Mind and the connection between Corporeal Soul, Lungs and skin. In
fact, the Corporeal Soul, being closely related to the body, is the first to be affected when needles
are inserted: the almost immediate feeling of relaxation following the insertion of needles is due
to the unwinding of the Corporeal Soul. Through it, the Mind, Ethereal Soul, Intellect and
Will-Power are all affected.
Emotions
The Corporeal Soul is also related to weeping and crying. Just as the Corporeal Soul makes us
feel pain on a physical level, it also makes us cry and weep when subject to grief and sadness.
Physiological Activities
Some modern doctors consider the Corporeal Soul the "basic regulatory activity of all
physiological functions of the body".38(203) In this sense it is the manifestation of the Lung
function of regulating all physiological activities.
Breathing