Within many articles, you will see organs of the body beginning with a capital letter, i.e., Liver, Spleen, Heart, Lungs, etc.

Within the Chinese Pin Yin alphabet, these organs have names such as Gan (Liver), Pi (Spleen), Xin (Heart) and Fei (Lungs). For sake of clarification, I have referred to their English name equivalent, but given them a capital letter to avoid confusion with conventional western medial names.

Although there is some overlap between Western and Eastern medicine, they are two different medical systems. For example, the kidneys in Western medicine are primarily regarded as a filter, whereas in Chinese medicine the Kidneys are regarded as the root of all Yin & Yang energies and play a fundamental role in conception, pregnancy, growth and development. Occasionally the Kidneys are referred to as the Kidney-Adrenal complex in Chinese medical texts, which perhaps is a more description term from a Western point of view.