子盗母气

出处：按学科分类—医药、卫生 科学普及出版社《汉英气功医疗词典》第119页（570字）

offspring stealing its maternal principle

(the inter-generating relationship of the five elements is as-signed to the five parenchymatous viscera. The liver corre-sponds to wood, the heart to fire. the spleen to earth , the lung to metal, the kidney to water, when an offspring vis-cus is ill and involves its maternal viscus, it is regarded as "an offspring stealing its maternal principle". For example, when a disease of the lung affects the spleen, it is regarded as "an offspring stealing its maternal principle". )