WOOD

Associated with Spring, rebirth growth

Liver - Yin/Zang

Gall Bladder - Yang/Fu

Liver is the general - likes to give orders, has workers, has a vision

Gall bladder - carries out decisions/judges

Characteristics - Flexibility, visions, plans, not rigid

physical, emotional

Anger, or lack of anger - will have red face/blush (Sarah H) headaches, tinnitus, migraine, neck pain

Shouting or lack of shouting

Spirit - Hun (Intuition, Psychic abilities, spirit going to heaven, Ethereal soul)

Each element is associated with 2 organs (except fire which has 4)

ZANG - viscus/solid/internal - Yin

Example:  Liver

FU - hollow/external/Yang

Example:  Gall Bladder - Yang

FIRE

Associated with Summer

Heart - Zang/Yin paired with:

Small Intestine - Fu/Yang

Pericardium - Zang/Yin paired with:

Triple Heater* - Fu/Yang

Heart is the Emperor and co-ordinates everything else

Usually has to go through something else (pericardium)

Characteristics:  Expansive, warmth, (blaze/ascend)

reaching out, connecting, closeness

Happiness, joy (or lack of), Laughing (or lack of)

Spirit:  Shen (shen also spirit of the whole body)

          Good shen has clear eyes - bad shen has

          cloudy eyes - Mugabe)

*San Jiao - Outer palace/outer wall - connective tissue

Associated with Late Summer 

Spleen - Zang/Yin

Stomach - Fu/Yang