According to standpoints of physicians of the Ming Dynasty, The life gate is not the appendage of the kidney, but the centre of life in the level of Taiji, independence of the five elements and Zangfu system.

• 综合明代医家的观点,说明命门已不再是肾的附庸,而成为独立于五行脏腑系统的太极层次的生命中枢。