The Five Elements - Relationships Of Organs

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Parts of the body are interdependent. The heart depends on the lungs for oxygen. If the kidneys don't work, all the organs suffer. The Five Elements help us understand these relationships. According to this principle, there exist five elemental types. They are known as Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood.

Each type corresponds to a major organ system. Fire corresponds to the Heart, Earth the Spleen, Metal the Lungs, Water the Kidneys, and Wood to the Liver. Each type also has a characteristic taste, color, body odor, or emotion. Some of these correspondences are:

1 - Fire/Red/Heart/Joy/Bitter/Scorched (acrid)
2 - Earth/Yellow/Stomach/Spleen/Worry/Sweet/Fragrant
3 - Metal/White/Lungs/Grief/Hot/Fleshy
4 - Water/Black/Kidneys/Fear/Salty/Putrid
5 - Wood/Green/Liver/Anger/Sour/Rancid

Each element relates to the other according to two cycles of influence- the generating cycle (clockwise) and the checking cycle. Disharmony in one element will create disharmony in others according to these cycles.

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