THE FIVE ELEMENTS - music

According to ancient Chinese thinking every material system has origin in one of the five elements or their combination. The five elements show different energy conditions and how they are cooperating.

These elements are: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Their connection to the organs can be seen in the following table:

According to ancient Chinese thinking every material system has origin in one of the five elements or their combination. The five elements show different energy conditions and how they are cooperating.

These elements are: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Their connection to the organs can be seen in the following table:

	Fire	Earth	Metal	Water	Wood
Yin Organs	Heart	Spleen	Lungs	Kidney	Liver
Yang Organs	Small intestine	Stomach	Large intestine	Urine bladder	Gall bladder
Openings	Tongue	Mouth	Nose	Ears	Eyes
Positive feelings	Love	Justice	Braveness	Tenderness	Amiability
Negative feelings	Hate	Anxiety	Sorrow	Fear	Wrath
Colour	Red	Yellow	White	Blue	Green

There exists a tight connection web between the elements. Every element influences the others in a complex way. If an energy path gets totally blocked it will not only affect the organ that is linked to it but sooner or later the other organs.

The following figure illustrates the process: The continuous line represents strengthening and the intermittent line weakening. Therapy of the liver (wood) will also strengthen the heart (fire) but will weaken the energy flow in the spleen (earth). What is important here is balancing the whole system. Under- or over stimulating are both as bad.