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=== Chinese medicine === {{Main|Traditional Chinese medicine}} [[File:Diurnal Cycle.svg|alt=Chinese Five Elements Diurnal Cycle|thumb|Chinese Five Elements Diurnal Cycle - 24 hour cycle of energy in the human body. waxing and waning of energy in each organ. during the time of the living breath, and the time of the dead breath. {{Citation needed|date=May 2023|reason=What context is this used in in Chinese wuxing beliefs?}}]] The interdependence of ''[[zangfu]]'' networks in the body was said to be a circle of five things, and so mapped by the ancient Chinese doctors onto categories of syndromes and patterns called the five phases.<ref>{{cite web |title = Traditional Chinese Medicine: In Depth |url = https://nccih.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/chinesemed.htm |website =[[National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health]] |access-date=20 March 2017|url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170404224358/https://nccih.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/chinesemed.htm |archive-date = 4 April 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Hafner |first=Christopher |title = The TCM Organ Systems (Zang Fu) |url = https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/what-traditional-chinese-medicine/what-qi-and-other-concepts/-tcm-organ-sy |website = University of Minnesota |access-date=5 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170406021051/https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/what-traditional-chinese-medicine/what-qi-and-other-concepts/-tcm-organ-sy |archive-date = 6 April 2017 }}</ref> In order to explain the integrity and complexity of the human body, Chinese medical scientists and physicians use the Five Elements theory to classify the human body's endogenous influences on organs, physiological activities, pathological reactions, and environmental or exogenous (external, environmental) influences. This diagnostic capacity is extensively used in traditional five phase acupuncture today, as opposed to the modern Confucian styled [[eight principles]] based Traditional Chinese medicine. In combination the two systems are a formative and functional study of postnatal and prenatal influencing on genetics in the form of [[epigenetics]], [[biology]], [[physiology]] [[psychology]], [[sociology]] and [[ecology]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.chineseherbsinfo.com/five-elements-theory/ |title = Five Elements Theory (Wu Xing) |date = 2019-10-27 |website = Chinese Herbs Info |language = en-US |access-date = 2019-12-17 |archive-date = 2019-12-17 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191217095858/https://www.chineseherbsinfo.com/five-elements-theory/ |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date = 2011-02-02 |title = five element acupuncture |url = https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/five-element-acupuncture |access-date = 2020-12-27 |website = NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms|publisher=National Cancer Institute|language = en-US }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Penoyer |first=Justin |title=The Roots of Accordance On the Unity of Biological, Ecological, and Sociopolitical Systems in the Huangdi Neijing |date=5 October 2020 |publisher=Rainbow Toad Publishing House |isbn=9781735666419}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" ! Movement || [[Wood (wuxing)|Wood]] || [[Fire (wuxing)|Fire]] || [[Earth (wuxing)|Earth]] || [[Metal (wuxing)|Metal]] || [[Water (wuxing)|Water]] |- ! [[Classical planet#Chinese astrology|Planet]] | [[Jupiter]] || [[Mars]] || [[Saturn]] || [[Venus]] || [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] |- ! Mental Quality | [[wikt:idealism|idealism]], spontaneity, [[curiosity]] || [[Passion (emotion)|passion]], intensity || [[wikt:agreeableness|agreeableness]], [[honesty]] || [[Intuition (knowledge)|intuition]], [[rationality]], [[mind]] ||[[wikt:erudition|erudition]], [[resourcefulness]], [[wit]] |- ! [[Emotion]] | [[anger]], [[motivation]] || [[Rage (emotion)|frenzy]], joy || [[anxiety]], [[planning]] || [[grief]], [[compassion]] || [[fear]], [[prudence|caution]] |- ! [[Virtue]] | [[Ren (philosophy)|Benevolence]]|| [[Propriety]] || [[Fidelity]] || [[Righteousness]] || [[Wisdom]] |- ! [[Zangfu|Zang]] ([[Yin and yang|yin organs]]) | [[Liver (Chinese medicine)|liver]] || [[Heart (Chinese medicine)|heart]]/[[Pericardium (Chinese medicine)|pericardium]] || [[Spleen (Chinese medicine)|spleen]]/[[pancreas]] || [[Lung (Chinese medicine)|lung]] || [[Kidney (Chinese medicine)|kidney]] |- ! [[Zangfu|Fu]] ([[Yin and yang|yang organs]]) | [[Gall bladder (Chinese medicine)|gall bladder]] || [[Small intestine (Chinese medicine)|small intestine]]/[[San Jiao]] || [[Stomach (Chinese medicine)|stomach]] || [[Large intestine (Chinese medicine)|large intestine]] || [[Urinary bladder (Chinese medicine)|urinary bladder]] |- ! Sensory [[Organ (anatomy)|Organ]] | [[Human eye|eye]]s || [[tongue]] || [[Human mouth|mouth]] || [[Human nose|nose]] || [[ear]]s |- ! Body Part | [[tendon]]s || [[blood vessel|vessels]] || [[muscle]]s || [[Human skin|skin]] || [[bone]]s |- ! Body Fluid | [[tears]] || [[sweat]] || [[saliva]] || [[mucus]] || [[urine]] |- ! [[Finger]] | [[ring finger]] || [[middle finger]] || [[thumb]] || [[index finger]] || [[pinky finger]] |- ! [[Sense]] | [[Visual perception|sight]] || [[taste]] || [[touch]] || [[Olfaction|smell]] || [[Hearing (sense)|hearing]] |- ! [[Taste]]<ref name="eberhard">{{cite journal |last=Eberhard |first=Wolfram |date=December 1965 |title = Chinese Regional Stereotypes |journal=Asian Survey |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |volume=5 |issue=12 |pages=596β608 |jstor=2642652 |doi = 10.2307/2642652 }}</ref> | [[sour]] || [[Bitter (taste)|bitter]] || [[sweet]] || [[pungent]], [[umami]] || [[Taste|salty]] |- ! [[Olfaction|Smell]] | [[Rancidification|rancid]] || [[wikt:scorched|scorched]] || [[fragrant]] || [[Decomposition|rot]]ten || [[putrid]] |- ! [[Life]] | early childhood || youth || adulthood || [[senior age]] || [[old age]], [[Fertilisation|conception]] |- ! Covering | [[Scale (anatomy)|scaly]] || [[Bird|feathered]] || [[naked human]] || [[fur]]red || [[Exoskeleton|shelled]] |- ! Hour | 3β9 || 9β15 || change || 15β21 || 21β3 |- ! Year | Spring Equinox || Summer Solstice || Summer Final || Fall Equinox || Winter Solstice |- ! 360Β° | 45β135Β° || 135β225Β° || Change || 225β315Β° || 315β45Β° |}
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