FIVE ELEMENTS

Five Element Theory is the most popular theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This theory helps people understand how natural changes within body and outside environment affect peoples health. Proponents of this system use the relationship of five elements and the meridians or channels of energy in the human body to bring forces back into balance.

The five elements are wood, fire, earth, metal and water. They were selected based on the observations of ancient oriental philosophers who theorized that the natural world embodied these elemental characteristics. Oriental Medicine uses this time-tested, diagnostic model to analyze how the various parts of a person's body and mind interact to affect health. 

These relationships are illustrated in the Five Element Chart below, which shows how each element is related to specific aspects of your body and mind.

Element	Organ	Bowel	Surface Part	Opening	Trait	Mental Part	Taste
Water	Kidneys	Bladder	Bones	Ears	Fear	Will Power	Salty
Wood	Liver	Gall Bladder	Nerves	Eyes	Anger	Mental Activity	Sour
Fire	Heart & Sexual Glands	Small Intestine	Blood vessels	Tongue	Arrogance and Impatience	Intuition, Joy, Peace	Bitter
Earth	Spleen & Pancreas	Stomach	Muscles	Mouth	Worry	Pondering	Sweet
Metal	Lungs	Large Intestine	Skin	Nose & Sinuses	Sadness	Orderliness and Rightness	Spicy

The above chart is a static illustration showing the different body/mind relationships associated with each organ. To get a sense of the dynamic nature of these interactions, let's look at how these elemental forces generate and regulate energy (qi) in nature, and by extension, in the human body and mind.

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