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Wáng Bīng’s annotations of Plain Questions (素问 sù wèn, wǔ zàng shēng chéng piān) state, The liver stores blood, and the heart moves it; when a person moves, blood moves through all the channels, whereas when he rests, the blood returns to the liver. Why is this so? Because the liver governs the sea of blood. The liver governs the sea of blood is therefore understood to mean that the liver stores blood and has a regulating action on its movement. See liver stores blood.

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