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chinese medicine models
phase: Fire
psychospiritual approaches
definition
phase/element: Fire
basic cosmological correspondences
stage of development: growth
direction: south
season: summer
color: red, scarlet
climate: Heat
daily cycle: between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.
planet: Mars
Shen (creative) cycle: Fire is the mother of Earth and the child of Wood
Ke (controlling) cycle: Fire tends to control Metal
evolutionary projection: red pheasant (Chia, p. 135)
universal energy force: prospering
primary physiological correspondences:
Yin organs (Zang): Xin (Heart) and Xin Bao (Pericardium)
Yang organs (Fu): Xiao Chang (Small Intestine) and San Jiao (Triple Warmer)
sense: smell, speech
sense organ: tongue
symptom reflex area: skin complexion, esp. facial color
special tissue: blood vessels
Zhong ("what the organs respect"): Shen (Spirit)
Yin organ stores: Vessels
Jing (Spirit): Shen (Spirit)
emotion: joy
psychological qualities: warmth, vitality, excitement (Chia)
secondary physiological correspondences:
odor: scorched/burnt
vocal sound: laughter
tone of voice: long, harmonious; pointless words
secretion: sweat
pulse: floating, big or scattered
pathological associations:
labor: watching
symptomatic emotion: joy
disease transformation: grief
Yin organ damaged by: Heat; "being upset, gloomy, sad or thinking too much upsets and injures the Heart" (Nan Ching via Matsumoto and Birch, p. 48)
injury affects: Qi
organ symptom presentation: belching
food associations:
taste: bitter
domestic animal: sheep
vegetable: shallot
fruit: apricot
cereal: millet flour
foods better eaten: Acid
foods better avoided: Salty
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