Wu Xing / Five Phases
Five Elements or Five Phases? What Wu Xing Means in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Learn what Wu Xing means in Traditional Chinese Medicine through Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, their qualities, movement and change.
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Wu Xing / Five Phases
How the Five Phases Generate and Control One Another in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Understand how the Five Phases generate and control one another in Traditional Chinese Medicine, with clear sequences and everyday memory images.
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Wu Xing / Five Phases
How to Read a Five-Phase Correspondence Chart
Read two Five-Phase correspondence charts and understand how qualities connect Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water with the body and natural world.
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Seasonal Chinese Kitchen
Why Do Chinese Families Make Osmanthus Pear Drink in Autumn?
An everyday Chinese drink, and the traditional ideas behind autumn dryness.
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Seasonal Chinese Kitchen
Chestnut Porridge: Why We Eat It When Winter Comes
From a familiar winter food to the TCM ideas of storing, the Kidney, and seasonal nourishment.
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Seasonal Chinese Kitchen
One Passion Fruit, Two Autumn Recipes: Understanding Autumn Dryness and Body Fluids Through Everyday Chinese Food
Explore autumn dryness and body fluids in traditional Chinese food culture, with a warm passion fruit drink and passion fruit beef in sour broth.
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Tai Chi Practice
Yin and Yang in Tai Chi Practice
See how shifting weight, opening and closing, and movement and stillness make Yin and Yang easier to observe in Tai Chi practice.
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Emotion Translator
When Emotions Feel Stuck, How Can You Find the Words?
Explore how Emotion Translator starts with a specific event to clarify feelings, expectations and needs, in connection with our article on the TCM Liver.
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Digital Portrait
Why Do Numbers Have Five-Element Meanings?
Explore how numbers, the eight trigrams and the Five Elements connect in the Later Heaven Nine Palaces, including Kan 1, Qian 6, Kun 2 and central 5.
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