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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
footnotes