Experts explanation: the traditional Chinese medicine theory of the five elements

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

        [guide language] five elements with the five elements, the relationship between birth to explain the relationship between things. To think everything is not isolated, stationary, but in constant phase birth, phase grams of movement of maintaining the balance coordination. Five line, it is to point to gold, wood, water, fire, soil five kind of physical sports.

        Theory of the five elements is used to explain the relationship between things abstract concepts, with a broad connotation, not only refers to five kinds of concrete material itself. Theory of the five elements is the function of the five objects attribute to interpretation of the phenomenon of things or properties, and with the mutual growth between five and restraining each other to discuss and author things or between the phenomena of the relationship and movement rule.

        All that has to grow, jade article, and of the action such as the nature of the things or is attributed to the category of wood;

        With warm, rising role or nature of things, all belong to fire;

        Has the bearing, biochemical, attributed the things is attributed to the category of the earth;

        It is a clean, transforming, supporting and role of things is attributed to the category of gold;

        With cold cool, moist, running down the things is attributed to the category of water.

        Five elements with the five elements, the relationship between birth to explain the relationship between things. To think everything is not isolated, stationary, but in constant phase birth, phase grams of movement of maintaining the balance coordination.

        The theory of traditional Chinese medicine in application, is mainly by five lines for analysis and study of the characteristics of the body organs, meridian, and physiological function of five elements attributes and mutual relationship, and explain them in pathological situations of influence each other.

        Therefore, the theory of the five elements in Chinese medicine is used in all corners of the explanation, and has a guiding clinical practical significance.