Equivalents of the 5 phases of change
Equivalent
Wood
Fire
Zang-Fu
Liver (yin)
Heart (yin)
Gallbladder (yang) Small intestine
(yang))
Pericardialis (yin)
Triple calefactor
(yang)
Energetic
Mild,
Heat of
quality
increasing
summer, the
warmth
hot season of
1
the year
Taste
Sour, dry
3
Bitter
4
Colour
Green, blue
Red
Musical instrument
String
Flutes and
instruments
pipes
Sound of voice
Screaming
Laughing
8
Typical
Jerking,
Easily excitable,
behaviour
straining,
ecstatic
14
pulling
13
Smell
Rancid, sour
Burnt,
17
charred
Climatic energy,
Wind
Fire
20
21
Stages of
Birth
Youth
development
Season
Spring
Summer
Direction
East
28
South
Emotion
Anger, rage
Happiness
32
pleasure
33
Intellectual/spiritual Hun
37
Shen
38
quality
Layer of the
Tendons,
Vessels
43
body
muscles
42
Sensory organ
Eye
47
Tongue
48
I-Ging, Numerical
8, young yin,
7, young yang,
equivalent
3
2
Animal
Chicken
Ram, sheep,
horse
Vegetarian
Wheat
Red beans
Planetary
Jupiter
Mars
equivalent
External
Nails
Face
portrayal
Fluid
Tears
Sweat
Virtue
Goodness
Morals, ethics
Pulse
clusa li
polex re
55
chordialis
exundans
32
Earth
Metal
Water
Spleen/pancreas
Lung (yin)
Kidneys (yin)
(yin)
Large intestine
Bladder (yang)
Stomach (yang)
(yang)
Generally
Cool, fresh,
Bitter cold
balancing,
cooling,
assimilating,
refreshing,
harmonising
clear
Sweet, pleasant-
Sharp, spicy
6
Salty
tasting
5
Yellow
White
Black
Drums,
Xylophones,
Organ, harp,
percussion
glockenspiel,
pan pipes
brass
instruments
Singing
Crying
Groaning
9
10
11
Belching,
Coughing,
Trembling
strangling,
playing with
longing
15
weapons
Pleasant-
Rancid, musty,
Rotten,
smelling,
putrid
decaying
18
aromatic
Humidity
Dryness
Cold
22
23
Maturity
Old age
Death/
25
26
wisdom
Late summer
Autumn
Winter
27
Centre
29
West
30
North
Reflection
Sadness
Anxiety
34
35
Yi
39
Po
40
Zhi
Flesh
Skin
Bones
44
45
Mouth,
Nose
Ears
50
tongue
49
5/10
9, old yang,
6, old yin,
4
1
Cow
Horse, deer
Pig
Yellow millet
Rice, oil plant
52
Black beans
Saturn
Venus
Mercury
Lips
Bodily hair
Hair on the
head
Diluted saliva
Nasal discharge
Thick
saliva
Trust
Justice
Wisdom
54
clusa re
polex re
pes re/
longus
superficialis
li mersus
1
first stirring after the winter hibernation
2
causing them to shiver, or from fear
3
direction: pulling together, collecting the yin
4
drying dampness, laxative, discharging and efferent
5
concentrating, strengthening the central calefactor
6
dispersing, dissolving, moving Qi and xue
7
softens, causes to drop, tones Ni-yin, weakens Ni-yang (edema)
8
shouting, yelling, cursing
2
9
mocking, jeering, giggling, joking
10
humming, always with a song on their lips
11
sobbing, wailing, complaining
12
groaning, sighing, monotonous, yawning
7
13
exercising physical strength and violence (including torture)
14
passionate, fire and flame
15
addictions with an oral fixation and other disturbances
16
trembling with fear, fright; petrified as if paralysed; being rigid
17
such as sweat, urine
18
maggot-ridden meat
19
smell of a rotting carcass, pus, evil-smelling
12
20
spearhead of all infectious diseases
16
21
sun, heat
22
dampness, stagnation of bodily fluids, mucus
23
exogenous and endogenous exhaustion of bodily fluids
24
frost, hypofunction, paralysis, Yin
19
25
maturity
26
decomposition
24
27
understood as an independent, fifth season, which we tend to view as a "transition period" between the seasons
28
in Europe, west (related to the climatic component)
29
understood as an independent direction, the middle point being of view of the self (the microcosm) as a matrix of
definition for everything "outside" (macrocosm)
31
30
east in Europe (realted to the climatic component)
31
on the southern hemisphere, south (related to the climatic component)
36
32
annoyance, aggression, people running amok, attacks of rage
33
cheerfulness, pleasure, sensuality
41
34
consideration, rational thought, brooding, worrying
35
sorrow, melancholy, depression, grief
46
36
fright, scare, shock, trauma, terror
37
ability to outwardly portray one's own personality
51
38
integration of the person, clarity, perception etc.
39
ability to think logically, reflect, structure
40
vegetative soul, drives, instinct, will to live
41
inherited potency, the will to self-realisation, ambition
42
active movement apparatus
43
circulatory system, lymph tracts
44
muscle mass, fat, connective tissue
45
including mucous membranes, integumentary appendages
46
marrow, brain, bone marrow, nerve tissue
47
seeing, tears, far-sightedness
48
here, as an organ of speech
49
here, as an organ of taste
53
50
smelling, breathing
51
hearing and equilibrium
52
sesame, rape, soya
53
of the mouth
54
also: sense of obligation
55
towards the thumb: pollex, center: clusa, towards the elbow: pes
Notes on the table
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