The theory of the five elements holds that wood, fire, earth, metal and water are basic materials constituting the material world. There exists among them an interdependence and inter-restraint which determines their state of constant motion and change.
The theory of the five elements basically explains the inter-promoting, inter-acting, over-acting and counter-acting relationship among them. Its application to traditional Chinese medicine is in classifying into different categories natural phenomena plus the tissues and organs of the human body and the human emotions and interpreting the relationship between the physiology and pathology of the human body and the natural environment with the law of the inter-promoting, inter-acting, over-acting and counter-acting of the five elements. This theory is used as a guide in medical practice.
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