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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE 5 ELEMENTS.
The observation of the Five-Element is a complete
system of healing, providing patients with a substantive and effective
means of regaining balance on all levels. It is one of the safest,
most comprehensive and far reaching systems of medicine in the world.
The Chinese observed that everywhere in nature there is dynamic
interchange. The seed (Yin) grows into the plant (Yang), which itself
dies back into the earth (Yin). This takes place within the changes
of the season – Winter (Yin) transform through the spring into
summer (Yang), which in turn transform through the fall into winter
again. The Chinese medical systems draws extensively on these metaphors.
This is most fully articulated.
In the system of the ‘ Five Elements’ which consist
of ‘water’, ‘fire’, ‘wood’,
‘metal’ and ‘earth’.
For thousands of years, the Chinese have recognized that the Five
Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water exist in everything,
everyone, and are essential for life.
Each element is seen as having a series of correspondence relating
both to the natural world and to the human body. Fire , for example,
corresponds to heat and to the heart. A pattern of interrelationships
between the Five Elements is used as a model for the way in which
the processes of the body support each other.
We named our products ‘The Five Elements’ because
of the important feature of the Chinese ways of observation where
they all contain both Yin and Yang aspects, thus reflecting the
underlying principle of mutually interactive duality, so central
to Chinese thought.
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