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chinese medicine models
phase: Metal
psychospiritual approaches
definition
phase/element: Metal
basic cosmological correspondences
stage of development: decline
direction: west
season: autumn
color: white (shiny or absence of color)
climate: dry weather, aridity
daily cycle: between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m.
planet: Venus
Shen (creative) cycle: Metal is the mother of Water and the child of Earth
Ke (controlling) cycle: Metal tends to control Wood
evolutionary projection: white tiger (Chia, p. 135)
universal energy force: contracting
primary physiological correspondences
Yin organ (Zang): Fei (Lung)
Yang organ (Fu): Da Chang (Large Intestine)
sense: voice, smell
sense organ: nose
symptom reflex area: skin and body hair
special tissue: integument (skin and mucosa)
Zhong ("what the organs respect"): Qi
Yin organ stores: Qi
Jing (Spirit): Po (Body Spirit)
emotion: grief, sorrow
psychological qualities: strength, sustainability (Chia)
secondary physiological correspondences
odor: rank (like spoiled meat or fish); musty
vocal sound: weeping (sighing)
tone of voice: loud, sobbing
pulse: floating, rough or short
secretion: nasal discharge
pathological associations:
labor: lying down
symptomatic emotion: grief
disease transformation: cough
Yin organ damaged by: Cold; "drinking cold fluids or being cold injures the Lungs" (Nan Ching via Matsumoto and Birch, p. 48)
injury affects: bone
organ symptom presentation: cough
food associations:
taste: acrid, spicy, pungent
domestic animal: horse
vegetable: scallions
fruit: peach
cereal: rice plant
taste: Hot, Spicy, Pungent
foods better eaten: Bitter
foods better avoided: Acid (also bitter)
footnotes