Recently Asian medicine has become popular in the West, such as Ayurveda from India and acupuncture from China. Here I would like to address the Chinese Five Elements Healing System. What is it and does it work?
This healing system is based on the premise that everything, including humans, dominated by one of 5 different natural elements, fire, earth, wood, metal and water. Although these elements have some correlation with their name, they also provide seasons, which have in turn influence to be healthy or affected slightly by its own inherent tendencies by certain types of stress are not always physical but also psychological and spiritual problems on our internal organs good.
To give an overview, I will briefly describe what each element. Wood is also associated with spring, the liver and the gallbladder. Fire is associated with summer, the heart and the small intestine. Earth is late summer, the stomach and the spleen. Metal is autumn time and affects the organs of the lung and colon. Finally, winter and water the kidneys and the bladder connected. Stimulated or inhibited by each element of the other elements.
Next I want to talk about the concept of chi. The Chinese believe that the world was originally a large mass of energy that we call chi is. This was then divided into plus and minus chi. That is why we have day and night, have masculine and feminine, hard and soft, and so on. In Chinese this is called positive and negative yin and yang. So what they did is the integration of the yin-yang philosophy. with the 5-element health system. So named in acupuncture, for example, the chi along meridians of certain designated highways. If
aa needle in one of these meridians is inserted at a certain point it
will affect a corresponding internal organ to become either more yin or
more yang.
The 5-element system gradually the full range of body and mind health problems and how to cover them diagnose. The wood, which organ, the liver, the emotion of anger, and the health indicator is the fingernails. So to make a very quick diagnosis if these are discolored fingernails may indicate that an extreme amount of anger will cause the lowering of chi liver disease and healing would then possibly either with acupuncture, herbs, exercise and meditation to to seek these organs function back into balance. This is a very simplified explanation and would usually be accompanied by tables and graphs. So I suggest further research to discover evolved over thousands of years, this amazing system. ......
