The theory of the five elements

Yin yang-five elements theory is our country ancient naive of dialectical materialism philosophy. Therefore, the ancient medical borrow Yin yang-five elements theory to explain the physiology and pathology of the various phenomena, and instructs the summary medical knowledge and clinical experience, it has gradually formed the basis of the theory of Yin and Yang of the motherland medicine theory system.

The theory of the five elements

One, the theory of the five elements concept

The theory of Yin and Yang, "with", as it is also a kind of philosophical concept, it is a kind of analysis and understand things way of thinking.

"Five elements" in nature, is "wood, fire, earth, metal and water" the five types of physical exercise.

"The theory of the five elements" refers to the five types of physical sports change, as well as their relationship to phase birth, phase grams as explain things correlate and movement rule reasons things out the tools.

The motherland medicine, classified method, first by that between different parts of body, and the relationship between the external environment, and secondly on the basis of the five elements, classified as center, with five viscera begets, phase grams of human relationship, explain to each other in the physiological processes of relationship. In pathological conditions, also with the relationship the analysis judgment of the illness.

Of the five elements attributes:

Wood - represents angry exuberant - "wood yue merits".

Fire - represent the hot, up - "fire yue inflammation".

Soil - with nutritional role of the representatives JiaSe "-" soil yue.

Gold - represent the septuagenarian killer role with "gold leather" from Japan.

Water - represent the cold, down - "water yue embellish down".

Second, the content of the theory of the five elements

(a) the basic laws of the theory of the five elements

1. Begets rule: birth, contains information birth, encourage, promote significance. Five elements, have mutual information between birth, mutual encourage relationship. This relationship referred to as the "five elements in life."

Five-element begets order is: wood produces fire, fire generates native gold, gold, living water, aquatic wood. Born in five elements in relationship in any line of my birth, I was born with two aspects, namely the relationship between tackles parenthood. As a mother, who gave me birth for son. I living For example, born in water for gold, who is my mother, gold for water; I the living is wood, then wood for the water's child. The other four lines, and so forth. Due to the liver belongs to the wood, the heart belongs to fire, spleen earthy, lung, kidney of gold of water, combined with five zang-organs, born in terms of hearts is liver, lienal lung born spleen born, lung, kidney raw liver kidney birth plays endowment birth and stimulative effect.

2. Phase grams rule: grams, contain restriction, the resistance the significance of Yang, overcome. Five elements, have restrict each other between mutually, overcome, mutual resistance of suppression, abbreviation "five elements relationship in grams".

The order is five phase grams, soil: wood grams of soil water gram water, fire, fire gram of gold's JinKeMu.., In the five elements in relationship in grams of any one have grams I, I grams of relationship, and two is "overcome", "be" relationship. For "who is my grams, I would" for "overcome the g. For example, grams with wood, the person for gold I for wooden "gold," I would person for soil, it's the soil for wood "wins". The other four lines, and so forth. Combined with five zang-organs speaking, is liver and spleen grams of kidney spleen grams of heart, heart, kidney grams lung, lung grams of liver's, plays the role of suppression restricted and resistance.

3. Five of the five elements made among begets, inhabited by a phase grams, and among the phase grams, and also born inhabited by a photograph. This is the general rule of movement change nature. If only begets without phase grams, cannot maintain normal balanced development; A photograph grams without begets, then everything won't have biochemical. So begets, phase grams is all things maintain relative balance two indispensable conditions. Only in interaction, coordination, and on the basis of the biochemical not can promote the things. For example, wood can grams soil, but the soil but makes gold wood. Therefore, in this case, the soil, but although he was grams not happen partial failure. Other fire, earth, metal and water are such. The ancients begets five elements boxing in grams and five elements are inhabited by a photograph is born's inner link, the name of the five elements of Japan. The specific circumstances of the law system are as follows:

Wood grams of soil, native gold, JinKeMu.

Fire gram of gold, gold living water, water grams of fire.

Soil gram water, aquatic wood, wood grams of soil.

JinKeMu, wood produces fire, fire gram of gold.

Water grams of fire, fire generates water, soil grams.

4. Multiplication pattern: take, by incoming meaning. Judging from the law, born grams is a kind of pathological an abnormal phenomenon. Multiplication and phase grams significance similar, just beyond the normal range, to the pathology of degree. Multiplication and phase grams of order is consistent. That is wood subjugates earth, soil by water, water by fire, fire take gold, gold by wood. Such as wood grams of soil, when wood gas too, gold is not restricted to wood to normal, so too no system, namely the wood subjugates earth had strong wooden grams of soil, the soil is by the more empty, not gold, so gold born frail, weakness of wood.

5. Photograph Wu rule: the meaning of Wu, is bullying. Judging from the law, and born grams, also belong to pathology as multiplied the abnormal phenomenon. But Wu and reverse phase, it's significance similar against Wu again yue sometimes. Photograph Wu order also and phase grams instead, that is: wood Wu gold, gold Wu fire, fire Wu water, water Wu soil, soil Wu wood.

The Wu above multiplication, phase two rules, are under pathological conditions will produce, for example, hydrosphere abound, then grams harm (figure are overcome) temper, at the same time, will in turn Wu soil (be). If water is insufficient, the soil to by numerous), fire (to overcome the Wu (FIG). This is because they are too and inferior appear abnormal phenomenon.

(2) natural and human body structure, function of wuxing belong to

Chinese medicine theory, not only think the human body each componental as a whole, and that the human body and external natural environment, also have its corresponding relationship. To illustrate the in vitro integrity and in the relationship between them, in the complex in the motherland medicine, and five behavior center, according to each of its characteristics, use the method, take analogy like nature and human related to things according to the properties of similar forms, respectively, the phenomenon with inductive, become five categories. Its primary purpose is to facilitate understanding all sorts of things, and the relationship between the deduction for observation of things change laws. See table 2-1.

Table 2-1 five-element classification

Five wood fire soil gold water

Orientation in north east south west

Party b has BingDing e those nonylphenol such-and-such sebacic essien

Earthly branches have afternoon Calvin xu-gou singular sockets ShenYou son not ugly hai

The four seasons spring summer autumn winter long summer

Five shape rectangular acuminate square round waveform

Colored green red yellow white and black

Five acid bitter Kennedy zinn salty

Five volunteers thought sorrow fear wrath xi

Five wisdom kernel courtesy letter righteousness wisdom

Five zang-organs liver kidney heart lienal lung

Five small intestine stomach e. bladder astringing bravery

Facial features mesh tongue nasal ears lips

Five body muscle pulse meat fur bone

Five waters of pure spirit soul god means

Five gas summer wet dry cold wind

Five of the charge hidden born long

Five wen wen hot natural cold cold

Nightfall qinglong rosefinch hook Chen leaps snake basaltic tiger

From the table can see, each line of various relationships between the phenomena of the subordinate, may also explain things change goes on each other the comprehensive development of relationship. For example, a wood, it began to sprout from trees grow in the spring, presented flourishing angry, and the emergence of green color, so use wood has come to symbolize the spring. In the process of growing collection, belong to "life" part. Spring windy combined body liver sex xi, the symbol of wood of relaxed, the spring. And the five distinguishing liver and gall is exterior-interior relationships, the goose liver and in five bodies in eye, in liver advocate muscle, so every appear more sick or cramps (spasm eyes of symptoms. The liver wood, and more fan and anger and easy to hurt liver, so in five log advocate anger. Some of the liver, often appear green color.

Put these natural phenomena and physiological and pathological phenomena relates in together, can put the wood, spring, liver, bravery, mesh, muscle, anger, green and so on a series of things and phenomena, attributable to the wood under the category, formed a system.

If it be from horizontal perspective, it also have a significant relation, with five itself, wood, fire, fire generates native gold, gold water...... , is obvious horizontal links.

(3) the theory of the five elements in clinical application

Born of the five elements in TCM Wu explained by law's five zang-organs lesions interrelation between five zang-organs, using adjustment by Wu relationship born grams to treat the problem. Such as: (1) the liver, spleen wood subjugates earth is clinically see liver and spleen with card, when treatment is generally take "wood" (ShuGan treatment of suppression method of the spleen). (2), (born liver kidney aquatic wood) kidney essence can nourish, liver and spleen, namely "water with card born wood", when "kidney water" is insufficient, liver wood to raise, patients lost appear "liver Yang hyperactivity" water is not han wood when the disease and syndrome, AIDS treatment to contain the wood, water liver Yang hyperactivity syndromes can improve. (3) renal help spleen (fire generates), spleen's operation function need kidney Yang help to normal, if kidney Yang Yang, clinical caused spleen syndrome appear, spleen and kidney Yang, produce diarrhea, edema, etc card. Put to appropriate temperature kidney Yang (fire, funding, spleen method of the spleen) the kidney. (4) to spleen lung (native gold), temper rehabilitation shipped, will diet is transported to the lungs, thus the subtle keep pulmonary function normal, spleen does not rise, scrap turbidity subtle does not fall, easy to produce phlegmy wet, appear much sputum symptoms of cough lung, spleen phlegm is required, treatment, namely "gold" in the treatment of lung born for the spleen method treatment, often the good result is achieved. (5) in heart and kidney alms jiqing), kidney main water, heart, kidney main fire hidden fine. Normal heart, kidney, heart help kidney with each other aid to help heart, kidney Yang, cloudy, interact with each other balanced, TCM called "heart renal fellowship". If kidney water shortage, cannot moist heart Yang, can cause symptoms of KangCheng heart-qi deficiency.it, appear "heart renal don't pay card." Treatments should zi kidney water (Yin) drop, disease and syndrome heart-qi deficiency.it may be healed.

Anyhow, know these rules, can help to deepen the understanding of TCM etiology, pathogenesis. The treatment also use five-element relations, guiding clinical practice, there are still certain significance.

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