APPROACHING CHINESE MEDICINE FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STANCE

ANNEX 1 b T. HOR

The five movernents
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Begetting, domination, regulation and transformation (sheng ke zhi hua) correspond to a normal functional situation, at the level of all things and phenomena. In man they correspond to a physiological situation

Bois: wood; Feu: fire; Terre: Earth; Métal: metal; Eau: water

- - - - - -- Mutual domination (yuan xianke)
________Mutual begetting (yuan xiangsheng)

 

Classification of properties and phenomena according to the five movements

 
 

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