Ancient Chinese philosophers, known as Taoists, made the chart called Five Element Theory for humans to better understand the way how nature works. Either outside or inside humans body.
Five Element Theory becomes logical and clear as one begin to use it as a filter for processing observations regarding feelings after eating, the types of emotions, and the food we crave.
Five Element chart is informative way to understand how to navigate your way toward health and well-being.
Five Element Theory helps to understand how natural changes within body and how outside environment affects your health. To predict and understand these dynamic changes, ancient doctors studied nature to determine what universal principles existed that could be applied to health and well-being.
Five Element Theory is what they came up with.
The five elements are wood, fire, earth, metal and water. They were selected based on the observations of ancient oriental philosophers who theorized that the natural world embodied these elemental characteristics. Oriental Medicine uses this diagnostic model to analyze how the various parts of a person's body and mind interact to affect health.
The Energy (Chi)
Based on Five Element Theory, each elemental force generates or creates the elements in a creative sequence.
The generative cycle of the Five Elements:
Wood generates Fire (it burns to generate Fire).
Fire generates Earth (it produces ashes).
Earth generates Metal (it can be mined from the ground).
Metal generates Water (it becomes molten when heated).
Water generates Wood (it promotes growth of plants).
When applied this relationship to the human body, each internal organ embodies the energetic qualities of the element it's related to. Each organ is responsible for providing the energy needed by the next organ in the generative cycle.
Liver (wood element) supports the Heart (fire element).
Heart (fire element) supports the Spleen (earth element).
Spleen (earth element) supports the Lung (metal element).
Lung (metal element) supports the Kidney (water element).
Kidney (water element) supports the Liver (wood element).
5 Elements chart
The chart gives the view to the different body/mind relationships associated with each organ.
So the internal organs play a dual role in promoting and maintaining health: generating and regulating energy for each other. Each organ passes energy to the organ it supports, and controls imbalances in the energy of the organ which it regulates.
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