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chinese medicine models
phase: Wood
psychospiritual approaches

definition

phase/element: Wood

basic cosmological correspondences
• stage of development: beginnings
• direction: east
• season: spring
• color: green or cyan
• climate: Wind
• daily cycle: between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m.
• planet: Jupiter
• Shen (creative) cycle: Wood is the mother of Fire and the child of Water
• controlling cycle: Wood tends to control Earth
• quality: warm and moist
• evolutionary projection: green Dragon (Chia, p. 106)
• universal energy force: generating

primary physiological correspondences
• Yin organ (Zang): Gan (Liver)
• Yang organ (Fu): Dan (Gall Bladder)
• sense: vision, color
• sense organ: eyes
• symptom reflex area: the finger and toenails
• special tissue: sinew (tendon, ligament, nerve and muscle, e.g. the motor unit)
• Zhong ("what the organs respect"): Xue (Blood)
• Yin organ stores: Xue (Blood)
• Jing (Spirit): Hun (Soul)
• emotion: anger
• psychological qualities: control, decisiveness (Chia)

secondary physiological correspondences
• odor: greasy/oily, goatish (like vinegar & stale sweat, a locker room)
• vocal sound: shouting
• tone of voice: square; plaintive cries
• secretion: tears
• pulse: wiry or tight

pathological associations:
• labor: walking
• symptomatic emotion: grief, melancholy
• disease transformation: spasming and clenched hands
• Yin organ damaged by: Wind; "getting angry injures the Liver" (Nan Ching via Matsumoto and Birch, p. 48)
• injury affects: Xue (Blood)
• organ symptom presentation: speaking

food associations:
• taste: sour or acid
• domestic animal: chicken
• vegetable: leek
• fruit: plum
• cereal: wheat
• foods better eaten: Sweet
• foods better avoided: Hot


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