A Glimpse Into the Chinese Theory of the Five Elements and Health
There is a passage in The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (Huángdì Nèijīng) that says that there are “100 types of illnesses that are caused by climate conditions — damp, cold, heat, wind and rain, an imbalance of the two basic forces — yin and yang, emotion, diet, and the environment.” This one sentence ...
