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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)


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