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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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