Post-Heaven Essence is the essence that is refined and extracted from foods and fluids by the stomach ans spleen after birth. Once a child is born it starts to get it’s nourishment from this form of essence. It comes from the foods it eats and air it breathes because the lungs, spleen, and stomach refine these sources. The spleen and stomach are vital in the digestion of food and the transportation for the transformed foods to lead to the production of Qi. Without this process we would cease to exist, and inhibited function of stomach and spleen cause problems with qi production.

Post- Heaven Essence is more of a generalized type of essence that existing within the body. This form of essence can be greatly affected by the quality and quantity of food we ingest. If we eat to much food we can problems by overloading the spleen and stomach with work. This overloading cause the transportation and transformation of food to be compromised and work inefficiently. Likewise, undereating causing problems because we don’t have enough nourishment to produce enough energy for the body. Our bodies can easily show that both the overeating and undereating cause problems for our body size.

Once these systems are unbalanced, we need to bring them back into balance. Nutritional considerations need to be implemented, as well as acupuuncture and herbal therapies, to create more harmony. The spleen and stomach need to be balanced along with the elimination of the harmful effects that have accumulated within the body because of the previous imbalance.