肠胃/Chang Wei
(The Intestine and Stomach)
黄帝问于伯高日:余愿闻六腑传谷者，肠胃之小大长短，受谷之多少奈何?伯高曰:请尽言之，谷所从出入浅深远近长短之度:唇至齿长九分，口广二寸半。齿以后至会厌，深三寸半，大容五合。舌重十两，长七寸，广二寸半。咽门重十两，广一寸半;至胃长一尺六寸。胃纡曲屈，伸之，长二尺六寸，大一尺五寸，径五寸，大容三斗五升。小肠后附脊，左环回周迭积，其注于回肠者，外附于脐上，回运环十六曲，大二寸半，径八分分之少半，长三丈二尺。回肠当脐，左环，回周叶积而下回运环反十六曲，大四寸，径一寸寸之少半，长二丈一尺。广肠傅脊，以受回肠，左环叶脊，上下辟，大八寸，径二寸寸之大半，长二尺八寸。肠胃所入至所出，长六丈四寸四分，回曲环反，三十二曲也。
Yellow Emperor asked Bogao:"I like to hear about the transportation of the cereals in the six hollow organs, the size and length of stomach and intestine and the capacity of the accommodation of the cereals." Bogao said:"Let me tell you the length of the various parts from the mouth where the cereals enter to the anus where the feces is excreted: The length from the lips to the teeth is nine fen (0. 9inch); the width of the mouth is two and half inches; the depth from the rear of teeth to the epiglottis is three and half inches; it can hold five ge (0. 05 litre) of food; the weight of the tongue is ten ounces, it is seven inches long and two and half inches wide; the weight of the laryngopharynx is ten ounces and its width is one and half inches; the length from the laryngopharynx to the stomach is one foot and six inches, the body of the stomach is tortuous, bending and stretching, its length is two feet and six inches, its circumference is one foot and five inches, its diameter is five inches and its capacity is three and half litres. The small intestine attaches to the spine behind, it goes around from left to the right and is overlapping, with sixteen turnings, the part of small intestine connecting the large intestine attaches on the location above the navel, its circumference is two and half inches, its diameter is eight and two third fen, and its length is thirty two feet. The large intestine turns left by the site of the navel, it descends overlapping in sixteen turnings, its circumference is four inches, its diameter is one and one third inches, and its length is twenty one feet. The wide intestine (rectum) is near the spinal cord, it receives the dregs from the large intestine, it descends to connect the anus somewhat slantingly, its circumference is eight inches, its diameter is two and two third inches and its length is two feet and eight inches. The total length of the digestive tract is sixty fcet and four inches and four fen, the turnings in the small intestine and the large intestine are thirty two."
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