What is the basic content of the Five Elements Theory?
1.
Wood fire, fire produces soil, natural gold, gold produces water, aquatic wood.
2. Five mutually resisting elements
Mu, Tuk Shui, Shui, Huo, Jin Kemu.
Neijing calls the relationship between Xiang and Ke "constant victory" and "invincible". Those who resist me are invincible, and those who resist me win.
3. Five elements system
Restrain in coexistence and seek development in restraint.
Multiply the five elements
That is, excessive restraint is in the same order as mutual restraint: wood takes soil, soil takes water, water takes fire, fire takes gold, and gold takes wood.
5. Five elements insult each other
That is, reverse restraint, the order is: wood insults gold, gold insults fire, fire insults water, water insults soil, and soil insults wood.
6. Five elements of mother-child integration
That is, the abnormal change of the relationship between the two.
Maternal disease: maternal weakness → maternal weakness → deficiency of both mother and child.
Traditional Chinese medicine application
The application of the theory of five elements in traditional Chinese medicine is mainly based on the characteristics of the five elements, analyzing and summarizing various functional activities of human organs, such as viscera, meridians, body, official orifices, etc., constructing a physiological and pathological system centered on the five organs, and then connecting with the natural environment to establish a five-organ system in which man and nature are integrated.
The physiological relationship between five zang-organs is analyzed by the law of restraint of five elements, and the interaction of five zang-organs diseases is explained by the law of attack and humiliation of five elements and the law of harmony between mother and child, which can guide the diagnosis and prevention of diseases. Therefore, the theory of five elements, as the main thinking method of traditional Chinese medicine, plays an important role in the establishment of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine and has important guiding significance for the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine.