Fear and Willpower in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Supporting the Kidneys

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the kidney is a yin organ that corresponds to the element of water. Regarded as the “root of life,” the kidneys are vital to conception, birth, aging, and decline, as they hold our essence, or jing, and “are the foundation for all the Yin and Yang energies of the body”(Maciocia, 2015, p.155).