The 5 elements are aspects of each of us and ideally will be in balance. But when one area goes out of balance then it can send others out to. Each element has a colour, season, organs, time, taste, emotion and other things associated with it. So it can help us to see where we are out of balance and what parts of our body need help.
WOOD
Think of a tree, is it flourishing and healthy. Is it flexible in the wind or do its limbs break easily, or is it uprooted easily (dizziness, vertigo, easily confused, can’t create roots for oneself). If the tree stops growing - gnarled limbs (arthritis). stunted thoughts and emotions. If the tree doesn’t get enough nourishment or sunlight - limbs will weaken and stiffen, vitality will be lost.
Colour: Green. Do you love the colour and wear it a lot or maybe you loathe it. Either extreme shows an imbalance in wood
Season: Spring
Organs: Liver and Gall Bladder. Liver = the planner. Gall Bladder = the decision maker. Migraines or headaches behind the eyes can be due to the liver out of balance, a fuzzy head, can’t think, or plan. A difficulty making decisions = gall bladder imbalance.
Time: Gallbladder 11pm - 1am. Liver 1am - 3am. If you feel better or worse, or can’t sleep at these times, it may show an imbalance.
Taste: Sour
Orifice: Eyes
Sense organ: Eyes
Emotion: Anger. Excess anger or a complete lack of anger. Feeling stuck, unable to escape your anger, irritable, on edge, angry with oneself for no reason, frustrated, inner-conflict = wood imbalance.
Sound: Shouting
Parts of Body Governed: Muscles and Sinews. Tendons and ligaments. How flexible are you?
External physical manifestation: Nails. Split, peeling, crack, etc. tells us there’s a problems with the wood element.
Taken from Traditional Acupuncture; The Law of the Five Elements by Dianne M. Connelly, Ph.D.
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