Category: K

The manifestations of Kuang are madness, mania wild behavior, uncontrollable violent behavior, shouting, and screaming obscenities, This is a Yang syndrome.  

The Chinese word for Kidney is Shen (Shen 1). The Kidney is one of the five Zang Fu. The Kidney system is responsible for storing the Jing, regulating water metabolism (forming and excreting urine), and assisting the Lung in receiving Qi from the air. As the Kidney stores the Jing, it is responsible for aging…

The five layers surrounding your physical body that comprise your whole being. These five layers are your physical body (annamaya), energy body (pranamaya), mental body (manomaya), intuitive body (vijnanamaya), and blissful body (anandamaya).  

The Ayurvedic Dosha comprised of earth and water elements, governing your bone density and all structure within your body. When Kapha is out of balance, you experience heaviness, fatigue, water retention, depression, and other related issues. One of the three doshas, combining the water and earth elements. Kapha is the energy that forms the body’s…

Are resident macrophages of the liver and play an important role in its normal physiology and homeostasis as well as participating in the acute and chronic responses of the liver to toxic compounds. Phagocytic cells that line the sinusoids of the liver. They are particularly concerned with the formation of bile and are often seen…

A type of protein contained in legume seeds which functions as a protease inhibitor.  

Gene knockout is a genetic technique in which an organism is engineered to carry genes that have been made inoperative. To hit someone so hard that he or she is no longer conscious.  

Either of two plasma a2-globulins that are kinin precursors. A substance that produces a kinin when acted on by certain enzymes.  

Is any of various structurally related polypeptides, such as bradykinin, that act locally to induce vasodilation and contraction of smooth muscle. Hormones involved in cell division and other processes. A polypeptide that makes blood vessels widen and smooth muscles contract. Group of large protein molecules that influence the contraction of smooth muscle. The result may…