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5 element theory
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06/28/2009

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five flavors
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five colors
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five sounds
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yin organs of transformation
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heart/percardium, spleen, kidney, lungs, liver
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yang organs of transportation
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bladder, stomach, colon, gallbladder, small intestine
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wood organs yin and yang
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liver and gallbladder
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wood season and color
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spring, green
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wood energy and emotion
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birth and expressivity or anger
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wood taste and smell and sound
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SOUR (small amounts tonify liver and large sedate it) and RANCID,SHOUTING
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earth yin and yang organs
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spleen/pancreas, stomach
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earth season and color
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late summer, yellow
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earth energy and emotion
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RIPENING, sentimentality, nostalgia, CENTEREDNESS
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earth taste and smell and osund
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sweet (small amounts tonify spleen, large amounts sedate), fragrant, SINGING
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fire yin and yang organ
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heart/percardium, small intestines/trip warmer
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fire season and color
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summer, red
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fire energy and emotion
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maturing, joy/high feelings
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fire taste, sound and smell
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BITTER (small amounts tonify heart large amoutns sedate)LAUGHING. SCORCHED
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metal yin and yang organ
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lungs, colon
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metal energy and emotion
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recieving/letting go, grief/sadness
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metal season and color
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autumn white
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metal sound taste and smell
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sobbing/wheezing, pungent (small amounts tonify lungs large amounts sedate), rotted
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water yin and yang organ
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kidneys and bladder
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water season and color
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winter and black/blue dark
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water energy and emotion
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storing energy, fear/paranoia
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water sound taste smell
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groaning, salty (small amounts tonify kidneys large amounts sedate), putrid
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shen cycle
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engendering cycle goverened by "law of mother and child" NOURISHING each element is mother to next in cycle
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ko cycle
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inner CONTROLING cycle, goverened by "law of grandparent and grandchild", each element grandparent to next
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reverse ko cycle
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"mutual insult" occurs when grandchild causes dysfunction to grandparent
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