5 elements Flashcards
Fire
(Yin/yang organs, sense organ, tissue, taste, colour, sound, odor, emotion, season, environment, direction)
Yin/Yang organ: HT/ SI
Sense Organ: Tongue
Tissue: Blood Vessels
Taste: Bitter
Colour: Red
Sound: Laughing
Odor: Scorched
Emotion: Joy
Season: Summer
Environment: Heat
Direction: South
Earth
(Yin/yang organs, sense organ, tissue, taste, colour, sound, odor, emotion, season, environment, direction)
Yin/Yang organ: SP/ST
Sense Organ: Mouth
Tissue: Muscles
Taste: Sweet
Colour: Yellow
Sound: Singing
Odor: fragrant
Emotion: Worry
Season: Late Summer
Environment: Dampness
Direction: Center
Metal
organ, tissue, taste, colour, sound, odor, emotion, season, environment, direction)
Yin/Yang organ: LU/LI
Sense Organ: Nose
Tissue: Skin
Taste: pungent
Colour: White
Sound: Crying
Odor: Rotten
Emotion: Greif
Season: Autumn
Environment: Dryness
Direction: West
Water
organ, tissue, taste, colour, sound, odor, emotion, season, environment, direction)
Yin/Yang organ: KI/BL
Sense Organ: Ears
Tissue: Bone
Taste: Salty
Colour: Blue
Sound: Groaning
Odor: Putrid
Emotion: Fear
Season: Winter
Environment: Cold
Direction: North
Wood
organ, tissue, taste, colour, sound, odor, emotion, season, environment, direction)
Yin/Yang organ: LR/GB
Sense Organ: Eyes
Tissue: Tendons
Taste: sour
Colour: Green
Sound: Shouting
Odor: Rancid
Emotion: Anger
Season: Spring
Environment: Wind
Direction: East
Fire (Generating/Controlling)
Generating: Wood
Controlling: Water
Earth (Generating/Controlling)
Generating: Fire
Controlling: Wood
Metal (Generating/Controlling)
Generating: Earth
Controlling: Fire
Water (Generating/Controlling)
Generating: Metal
Controlling: Earth
Wood (Generating/Controlling)
Generating: Water
Controlling: Metal
3 Needle technique for Xu
- Tonify mother point on affected channel
- Tonify Natural point/Horary Point on mother channel
- Tonify the mother point on the interior/exterior related channel
3 Needle technique for Shi
- Sedate the son point on the affected channel
- Sedate the natural/ Horary point on the son channel
- Sedate the son point on the interior/exterior related channel
Korean 4 needle technique for xu
- Tonify the mother point on the affected channel
- tonify the natural/horary point on the mother channel
- Sedate the father point on the affected channel
- Sedate the natural/horary point on the father channel
Korean 4 needle technique for Shi
- Sedate the son point on the affected channel
- Sedate the natural/horary point on the mother channel
- Tonify the father point on the affected channel
- Tonify the natural/horary point on the father channel
Wood not generating fire Symptoms/ Zang fu pattern
Timidity, lack of courage, indecision, dizziness, blurred visions, palpitations, insomnia
Heart and liver blood xu
Wood overacting on earth Symptoms/ Zang fu pattern
Hypochondriac pain, irritability, nausea, belching, constipation, loose stools, poor appetite, abdominal distention
Liver transversely affecting spleen or stomach
Wood insulting metal
Distention in chest, hypochondriac pain, cough, asthma
Liver Qi stagnation causing lung Xu
Fire not generating earth
Loose stools with undigested food, feeling cold, weak limbs
Spleen yang xu
Fire overacting on metal
Palpitations, mental restlessness, insomnia, malar flush, afternoon fever, night sweating, lower back pain
Heart fire causing lung yin xu, lung heat
Fire insulting water
Palpitations, mental restlessness, insomnia, malar flush, afternoon fever, night sweating, lower back pain.
Heart fire and KI yin xu, or KI/HT yin xu
Earth not generating metal
Tiredness poor appetite, abdominal distention, cough, phlegm in the chest.
Damp phlegm obstructing the lung
Earth overacting on water
Edema, difficult urination, burning sensation in the abdomen, hunger without desire to eat, afternoon fever, lower back pain
Damp obstructing the KI, ST fire, and KI yin xu
Earth insulting wood
Poor appetite, abdominal distention, jaundice, hypochondriac pain
Obstruction of spleen by dampness causing liver Qi stagnation
Metal not generating water
Cough, shortness of breath on exertion, difficulty inhaling, asthma, dry cough worse in the evening, malar flush, afternoon fever, lower back pain
Metal overacting on wood
Shortness of breath, cough, tiredness, hypochondriac pain, irritability
Lung Qi xu causing Liver Qi stagnation
Metal insulting fire
Phlegm, cough, shortness of breath on exertion, sweating, tiredness, insomnia, palpitations
Phlegm-cough leading to heart Qi xu or
lung qi xu and heart qi xu.
Water not generating wood
Headache, vertigo, tinnitus, dizziness, blurred vision, malar flush, afternoon fever, lower back pain.
Liver yang rising or
Liver and kidney yin xu
Water overacting on fire
Edema in lower limbs, palpitations, cold hands, malar flush, afternoon fever, mental restlessness, insomnia
Kidney yang xu with water overflowing to heart
or
Kidney yin xu with empty fire in heart
Water insulting earth
Palpitations, mental restlessness, insomnia, malar flush, afternoon fever, night sweating, lower back pain
