Have you ever seen the show, “Fact or Fiction?” If not, it goes like this: each week, an unbelievable story is told and the viewers get to judge if they believe the story is fact or fiction. In Chinese medicine, we have our very own “fact or fiction” debate. Except this debate is centuries-old and we still don’t have the answer. This ongoing debate has stayed in the back of my mind for years. Here’s what it’s all about: TCM practitioners have long questioned the existence of the organ, The Triple Burner. Unlike all of the other organs in the human body, it is the only one with no physical component. It’s said to be the organ with a name but no form. How could that be? Well, the triple burner “holds the office of the sluices (water channel controlled by gates); it manifests […]