Yin and Yang the basic concepts

of the theory of the five elements

    Yin and Yang, five elements in ancient China a philosophy, and it has a simple materialism and dialectics of nature spontaneously. In the early two thousand DuoNian by reference to the motherland medicine before, with the medical practice, gradually become one of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine. Its main points: think the world is material, opposing superstition ghosts and manifest destiny, the cause of the disease from the world, "not not from out", but small product born; Things that exist between mutual dependence, check each other's "life g, people and the environment" relationship shall be unified; Think that the human body is a unified whole, there are two opposite contradiction of Yin and Yang, it is human body physiology, pathology, process the inner basis. But because of the historical conditions, Yin and Yang limit theory of the five elements don't completely understand the universe, not a profound reveals the human body and change rules, but also with idealism and metaphysics. Therefore, we must take the view of "one, to be critically inherit, take the essence and discard the dregs, to make it up to improve the motherland medicine heritage service.