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Traditional Chinese Medicine Five
Element Correspondences
- The kidneys belong to Winter. During
the winter months the kidney energy is at its most vulnerable... but
winter is also the time when the kidney energy is most
easily and
profoundly influenced. The emotion of the kidneys is fear. The kidneys
rule the teeth, bones, marrow, and nerves.
- The Spring is the season of the liver.
The emotion of the liver is anger, frustration.
The element associated
with the liver is wood. The health of the liver manifests in the nails.
- The heart belongs to Summer. Its
color is red and it dominates the blood and vessels.
The emotion associated
with the heart is joy.
- Late Summer is the season of the spleen.
Its element is earth and its color is yellow.
The emotion of the spleen
is anxiety, pensiveness.
- In the Fall, the constitutional type of
Lung predominates. The lungs are associated with metal. They
rule over the skin and mucous membranes.
The emotion for the lungs
is sorrow or grief.

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