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chinese medicine models
phase: Water
psychospiritual approaches

definition

phase/element: Water

basic cosmological correspondences
• stage of development: dormancy or termination (end of cycle)
• direction: north
• season: winter
• color: dark blue or black (darkness)
• climate: Cold
• daily cycle: between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
• planet: Mercury
• Shen (creative) cycle: Water is the mother of Wood and the child of Metal
• Ke (controlling) cycle: Water tends to control Fire
• evolutionary projection: black tortoise or blue deer (Chia, p. 135)
• universal energy force: gathering

primary physiological correspondences
• Yin organ (Zang): Shen (Kidney)
• Yang organ (Fu): Pang Guang (Urinary Bladder)
• sense: liquid, hearing
• sense organ: ears
• symptom reflex area: head hair or Two Yin (anal and urethral openings)
• special tissue: bones and teeth, ("bones" includes marrow, which for the Chinese also meant the spinal column and the brain)
• Zhong ("what the organs respect"): Will
• Yin organ stores: Jing (Essence)
• Jing (Spirit): Jing (Essence) and Will
• emotion: fear, shock, stress
• psychological qualities: ambition, will power (Chia)

secondary physiological correspondences
• odor: rancid, musty; putrid (like old urine)
• vocal sound: moaning & groaning
• tone of voice: quiet, feather; lamenting
• secretion: watery saliva
• pulse: sinking, sloggy or slippery

pathological associations:
• labor: standing
• symptomatic emotion: fear and worry
• disease transformation: body chill
• Yin organ damaged by: Damp; "sitting in a damp place for a long time or bathing in cold water after working hard injures the Kidneys." (Nan Ching via Matsumoto and Birch, p. 48)
• injury affects: muscles and tendons
• organ symptom presentation: yawning and sneezing

food associations:
• taste: salty
• domestic animal: pig
• vegetable: leaf of bean plant
• fruit: chestnut
• cereal: bean
• foods better eaten: Hot
• foods better avoided: Bitter (also Sweet)


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