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| Wood correspondences part 1 |
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| green, wind, east, anger, spring, eyes, shouting, birth, sour, sinews, LV, GB |
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| Wood correspondences part 2 |
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| Fish, sheep, wheat, 8, jupiter, |
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| Fire correspondences part 1 |
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| red, heat, south, joy, summer, tongue, laughing, growth, bitter, vessels, HT, SI |
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| Fire correspondences part 2 |
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| birds, fowl, beans, 7 mars |
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| Earth correspondences part 1 |
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| Yellow, dampness, center, pensiveness, late summer, mouth, singing, transformation, sweet, muscles, SP, ST |
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| Earth correspondences part 2 |
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| Human, ox, rice, 5, saturn |
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| Metal correspondences part 1 |
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| White, dryness, west, sadness, autumn, nose, crying, harvest, pungent, skin, LU, LI |
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| Metal correspondences part 2 |
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| Mammals, dog, hemp, 9, venus |
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| Water correspondences part 1 |
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| Black, cold, north, fear, winter, ears, groaning, storage, salty, bones, KD, UB |
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| Water correspondences part 2 |
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| Shell covered, pig, millet, 6, mercury |
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| What is the character of wood? |
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| What is the character of fire? |
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| What is the character of earth? |
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| To give birth to all things |
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| What is the character of Metal? |
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| To descend and to be clear |
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| What is the character of Water? |
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| To be cold and to flow downwards |
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| same as controlling, but too much. |
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| Imbalance of fire. Could be: Excess of HT fire. |
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| Imbalance of earth. oOuld be SP qi xu. |
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| Imbalance of metal: could be LU wi xu. Indicates cold condition of any moral. |
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| Dark, purplish, sometimes gray almost black |
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| water imbalance. could be from KD yin xu |
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| Wood imbalance: blood stasis, chronic pain. |
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| Very pale white face with red cheek bones |
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| Fire, overacting on metal. |
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| Yellow face with greenish tinge around mouth |
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| Greenish face color, symptoms of earth xu: tired, loose stools, no appetite |
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| LV overacting on SP which has gotten weak |
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| Wood imbalance: Gall stones, yellow face. Gall stones, yellow complexion. |
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| SX of fire imbalances: Palps, bitter taste, mouth ulcers, insomnia (HT fire type) dk complexion. |
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| Water overacting on fire. |
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generates fluids, yin
astringent
can control sweating, diarrhea
Goes to nerves. Can upset LV.
If chronic pain, ise sparinglu. Avaoid if SP is diseased |
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Clears heat, sedates, hardens, clears damp heat, subdues rebellious qi
Goes to the bones-should be avoided in LU disease. Avoid if LU diseased |
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Tonifies, balances, moderates, stops pain
Goes to muscles, excess can cause weak muscles. avaoid sweet food if KD diseased. |
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| Scatters, expels pathogenic factors, AVOID in qi xu, avoid if LV diseased. |
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Flows downward, softens hardness, treats constip, swelling.
Avoid in blood xu, as well as salty food. |
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