The pancreas plays a role of metabolic transformation. By its secretions exocrine, enzymatic and endocrine, it participates in the management of the nutritional contributions necessary to the life of the organism, in its action and its movement, as well as in its construction and its growth.
It is related to the sense of taste: the desire to nourish oneself, to act, to realize, to realize oneself, to engender, to manifest life. Associated with the stomach, the pancreas is one of five families of organs and meridians in relation to the sense of taste.
The passage of the end of the summer is characterized by the activation of the vital currents of the couple Stomach - Spleen / Pancreas, meridians masters of this season.
These two currents, for traditional Chinese medicine, govern the sense of taste: a taste for action, to undertake, to engender, to manifest life ...