Abstract
The traditional Chinese medicine distinguishes five cosmic energies. Wind, warmth, humidity, dryness, and cold. These Energies are assigned to the seasons spring, high summer, late summer, autumn, and winter as well as to the five elements wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
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In the Chinese view there are five different cosmic energies. These are the cold, the humidity, the dryness, the warmth and the wind. All of this can appear separately or in various combinations. Each of these energies is related to one season. The cold stands for the winter, the wind for the spring, the warmth for the high summer, the humidity for the late summer and the dryness for the autumn.[1] According to traditional views the peripheral parts of the meridians are more affected by climatic influences than the other ones.[2]
Humidity and cold are considered to be inactive and thus are belonging to the Yin, while dryness, wind and warmth are seen as active and belong to the Yang.[3]
In Chinese medicine, each of the seasons also relates to one of the five elements. These elements are earth, fire, metal, water and wood. Again, there are relations between the energies and the elements. So cold belongs to the water, humidity belongs to the earth, dryness belongs to the metal, warmth belongs tot he fire and wind belongs to the wood.[4]
Disturbances of the relation of Yin and Yang might result in sicknesses if the body is weak and has only a low defensive power, which is called Wei qi.[5] Reasons for these disturbances can be infections, colds, tension, wrong food etc. but also, if an energy prevails which is not suitable for the season.[6] In the latter case, according to the science of the elements, the disturbances are most likely to affect those organs, being related to this element.[7]
Acupuncture is able to re-establish the energy equilibrium in case of a sickness and thus bring the body back into the harmony of its powers.
© 2006 Thailin Thai Massage Berlin- Cf. Leibold (1994), p. 13
- Cf. Eckert (1996), p. 27
- Cf. Leibold (1994), p. 8
- Cf. Leibold (1994), p. 13
- Cf. Eckert (1996), p. 27; Leibold (1994), p. 12; Wagner (1991), p. 7.
- Cf. Leibold (1994), p. 8
- Cf. Eckert (1996), p. 27
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Leibold, G. (1994): Akupressur zur Eigenbehandlung. 2. Ed. Niedernhausen (Taunus) 1994.
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