神秘的五行 － 五行与中国医学 (English Translation)
Traditional Chinese Medicine correlates the five elements or wu xing with human organs, facial features, build and emotions. Wood correlates to liver, fire to heart, earth to spleen, metal to lung, water to kidney in regards to the viscera or zang fu. The correlation is based on the respective characteristics of wu xing and zang fu： 肝喜条达，木有生发，故以肝属木；心阳温煦，火有阳热，故以心属火；脾为生化之源，土能生化万物，故以脾属土；肺有肃降，金有清肃，故以肺属金；肾主水藏精，水有润下，故以肾属水。Wu xing can also be correlated to other organs, therefore TCM takes all of these components into consideration when making a clinical diagnosis.
The root of all illnesses in TCM are the six qi; wind (木), cold (水), heat (君火), wet (土), dry (金), fire (相火). The generative and destroying cycle can cure illnesses caused by the six qi in the zang fu. Metal chops wood, water puts out fire, earth grows wood, fire depletes metal, earth absorbs water. While this sequence is overcoming, there is another cycle that is generating. Liver is bullied by heart (wood generates fire), heart is bullied by spleen (fire generates earth), spleen is bullied by lung (earth generates metal), lung is bullied by kidney (metal generates water), kidney is bullied by liver (water generates wood). Therefore when one zang fu generates the other, it can also be adversely affected by it, such as the 'son' implicating the 'mother' or vice versa (母病及子). In the wu xing system, one elements is always connected in one way or another to the remaining four elements. TCM aims to maintain a harmonious relationship amongst them by administrating medicine and through other methods.
Illness will occur once any 'excess' or 'deficiency' conditions upset the balance. 'Excess' or 'inter-promotion' is to dominate over the weaker party (“薄所不胜，而乘所胜也”), 'deficiency' or 'inter-restraint' is to take advantage when the other party is weak (“见已所不胜，侮而乘之，已所胜，轻而侮之”). For example, when there is an excess of wood qi, its subordinate earth will be overly restrained (inter-promotion) and restraining its superior metal instead of being restrained (inter-restraint). If there is deficiency of wood qi, both metal and earth will restraint wood while fire which is generated by wood will also be affected. As shown, any one of the element can easily upset the balance.
Such abnormalities are usually resolved by the body internal homeostasis system but the five elements may be externally administered when the body system fails to do so. Take the liver for example, although the liver itself is not heaty, medical problems such as poor appetite, dizzy spells, poor eyesight, vomiting, easily frightened and angered, etc, may occur when lung metal is too weak to restrain heart fire. The clinical treatment should use metal to restraint wood where the air of metal will cool the liver water. Thus close attention should be paid to controlling lung metal.
Other than the generative cycle, an intricate relationship exists between the five viscera and the other organs, emotions and nature. For instance, the liver correlates to the gall bladder, eyes, tendons, anger and spring, eastern wind, green, sour in nature and wood. As a result, the liver and gall bladder are connected; liver is observed through eyes which grow tendons that are green; anger harms the liver; liver related illnesses often occur in spring when eastern wind is aplenty and in turn harm the tendons; sourness first by pass the liver and an appropriate amount will enhance the liver while an overdose is harmful. This correlation applies to the other four elements too.
The five colors, the five flavors and the five pulses correspond to the liver, the heart, the spleen, the lung and the kidney respectively. So they can be directly used to diagnose disease. Liver pulse is greenish white, heart pulse is reddish black, spleen pulse is yellowish green, lung pulse is whitish red, kidney pulse is blackish yellow. The left cheek will be red if the liver is heaty, the right cheek will be red if the lung is heaty, the body will be red on the whole if the heart is heaty, the nose will be red if the spleen is heaty, the forehead will be red if the kidney is heaty. The face is yellowish white if the body is heaty, greenish white if cold and greenish black if in pain.
东风生于春，病在肝，俞在劲项；南风生于夏，病在心，俞在胸胁；西风生于秋，病在肺，俞在肩背；北风生于冬，病再肾，俞在腰股；中央为土，病在脾，俞在脊。 “俞” means the route of transmission. Liver diseases beginning from the neck down are common in spring; heart diseases beginning from the chest are common in summer; lung diseases beginning from the shoulder are common in autumn; kidney diseases beginning from the waist are common in winter; spleen diseases beginning from the spinal are common in summer-autumn period. The human body, wu fang, wu ji, wu qi are hence directly related.
TCM targets the harmonization of human emotions through the inter-promotion and inter-restriction cycles of the wu xing theory. Anger correlates to wood, joy to fire, worry to earth, sadness to metal, fear to water. Therefore, anger harms liver, sadness restraints anger, joy harms heart, fear restraints joy, worry harms spleen, anger restraints worry, sadness harm lungs, joy restraints sadness, fear harms kidney, worry restraints fear. It is an useful technique to treat patients by transferring their excess emotion to one that restrain them.
Analysis of tonics can be made based on the wu xing theory. The various type of commonly used tonics such as ginseng and chicken can be correlated to wu zang according to wu se. Everything from clinical diagnosis to treatment are classified according the inter-promoting and inter-restricting relationship in wu xing theory as practical appplications.
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The root of all illnesses in TCM are the six qi; wind (木), cold (水), heat (君火), wet (土), dry (金), fire (相火). The generative and destroying cycle can cure illnesses caused by the six qi in the zang fu. Metal chops wood, water puts out fire, earth grows wood, fire depletes metal, earth absorbs water. While this sequence is overcoming, there is another cycle that is generating. Liver is bullied by heart (wood generates fire), heart is bullied by spleen (fire generates earth), spleen is bullied by lung (earth generates metal), lung is bullied by kidney (metal generates water), kidney is bullied by liver (water generates wood). Therefore when one zang fu generates the other, it can also be adversely affected by it, such as the 'son' implicating the 'mother' or vice versa (母病及子). In the wu xing system, one elements is always connected in one way or another to the remaining four elements. TCM aims to maintain a harmonious relationship amongst them by administrating medicine and through other methods.
Illness will occur once any 'excess' or 'deficiency' conditions upset the balance. 'Excess' or 'inter-promotion' is to dominate over the weaker party (“薄所不胜，而乘所胜也”), 'deficiency' or 'inter-restraint' is to take advantage when the other party is weak (“见已所不胜，侮而乘之，已所胜，轻而侮之”). For example, when there is an excess of wood qi, its subordinate earth will be overly restrained (inter-promotion) and restraining its superior metal instead of being restrained (inter-restraint). If there is deficiency of wood qi, both metal and earth will restraint wood while fire which is generated by wood will also be affected. As shown, any one of the element can easily upset the balance.
Such abnormalities are usually resolved by the body internal homeostasis system but the five elements may be externally administered when the body system fails to do so. Take the liver for example, although the liver itself is not heaty, medical problems such as poor appetite, dizzy spells, poor eyesight, vomiting, easily frightened and angered, etc, may occur when lung metal is too weak to restrain heart fire. The clinical treatment should use metal to restraint wood where the air of metal will cool the liver water. Thus close attention should be paid to controlling lung metal.
Other than the generative cycle, an intricate relationship exists between the five viscera and the other organs, emotions and nature. For instance, the liver correlates to the gall bladder, eyes, tendons, anger and spring, eastern wind, green, sour in nature and wood. As a result, the liver and gall bladder are connected; liver is observed through eyes which grow tendons that are green; anger harms the liver; liver related illnesses often occur in spring when eastern wind is aplenty and in turn harm the tendons; sourness first by pass the liver and an appropriate amount will enhance the liver while an overdose is harmful. This correlation applies to the other four elements too.
The five colors, the five flavors and the five pulses correspond to the liver, the heart, the spleen, the lung and the kidney respectively. So they can be directly used to diagnose disease. Liver pulse is greenish white, heart pulse is reddish black, spleen pulse is yellowish green, lung pulse is whitish red, kidney pulse is blackish yellow. The left cheek will be red if the liver is heaty, the right cheek will be red if the lung is heaty, the body will be red on the whole if the heart is heaty, the nose will be red if the spleen is heaty, the forehead will be red if the kidney is heaty. The face is yellowish white if the body is heaty, greenish white if cold and greenish black if in pain.
东风生于春，病在肝，俞在劲项；南风生于夏，病在心，俞在胸胁；西风生于秋，病在肺，俞在肩背；北风生于冬，病再肾，俞在腰股；中央为土，病在脾，俞在脊。 “俞” means the route of transmission. Liver diseases beginning from the neck down are common in spring; heart diseases beginning from the chest are common in summer; lung diseases beginning from the shoulder are common in autumn; kidney diseases beginning from the waist are common in winter; spleen diseases beginning from the spinal are common in summer-autumn period. The human body, wu fang, wu ji, wu qi are hence directly related.
TCM targets the harmonization of human emotions through the inter-promotion and inter-restriction cycles of the wu xing theory. Anger correlates to wood, joy to fire, worry to earth, sadness to metal, fear to water. Therefore, anger harms liver, sadness restraints anger, joy harms heart, fear restraints joy, worry harms spleen, anger restraints worry, sadness harm lungs, joy restraints sadness, fear harms kidney, worry restraints fear. It is an useful technique to treat patients by transferring their excess emotion to one that restrain them.
Analysis of tonics can be made based on the wu xing theory. The various type of commonly used tonics such as ginseng and chicken can be correlated to wu zang according to wu se. Everything from clinical diagnosis to treatment are classified according the inter-promoting and inter-restricting relationship in wu xing theory as practical appplications.
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Written by a medical doctor who has studied both conventional and alternative practices, this easy-to-understand guide to the benefits of Eastern medicine explains the ancient Chinese approach to health and healing-an approach that integrates mind, body, and spirit.
From the Inside Flap
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water — the Chinese have known for centuries how to tap into these five elemental forces of nature and use them to strengthen and heal their minds and bodies. In Chinese Medicine for Beginners author Achim Eckert, M.D., explains the mystery and brings to the Western world an understanding of the Chinese approach to health and healing.
Eckert explores the many facets of Chinese medicine, including the attributes of Yin and Yang, Qi(the life force), meridians of the body, and the Chinese view of the organs. He explains in detail the relationships between organs, energy flows within the body, emotional behavior, mental attitudes, and physical well-being.
Along with practical applications, Eckert explains how each of the five elements works in the human body. Some examples include:
• A disorder of Wood can cause depression and resignation.
• A disturbance in Fire is expressed in nervousness and insomnia.
• An overabundance of Earth leads to exaggeration and emotional outbursts.
• An imbalance of Metal is often revealed by an intense worry about the future.
• A solid balance of Water promotes strong bones and healthy teeth.
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