Ministerial fire

A fire in the body inhabiting the life gate, liver, gallbladder, and triple burner, and thought to come essentially from the life gate (to which extent it is indissociable from kidney yáng). It stands in complementary opposition to the sovereign fire, which is the heart fire. The sovereign and ministerial fires together warm the bowels and viscera and power activity in the body. In insufficiency of liver-kidney yīn, the ministerial fire can be hyperactive, giving rise to a condition known as stirring of the ministerial fire, which is characterized by dizziness, headache, unclear vision, tinnitus, deafness, irascibility, profuse dreaming, vexing heat in hearts of the palms, excessive libido, seminal emission, and premature ejaculation. This condition is the same as vacuity fire flaming upward due to liver-kidney yīn vacuity.