Water

Organs Bladder & Kidneys

Wood
Gall Bladder & Liver

Fire
Heart & Small Intestines; also Pericardium & Triple Warmer (Sanjiao Channel) Heart: Oversees workings of bodymindspirit SI: Separates essential from the crude; the wheat from the chaff P: Protector of the heart; guides joys, pleasures, emotions, relationships, sexual functioning, blood flow TW: Brings the operation of the organs in the three cavities into balance; maintains temperature Heart: 11am1pm SI: 1pm3pm CS: 7pm9pm TW: 9pm11pm Summer Hot South

Earth
Stomach & Spleen

Metal
Lungs & Large Intestine

Functions

Bladder: Stores and eliminates fluid; helps in adaptation to environment GB: Decisions; Kidney: Store-house judgement of Vital Essence, i.e., Liver: Planning Life Force from ancestors; regulates amount of fluid in the body

Stomach: Culls and brings to fruition essential nutrients Spleen: Distributes energy and nutrients

Lungs: Assimilates chi and sets rhythmic order of bodily functions LI: Regulates removal and storage of waste

Time Season Climate Direction

Bladder: 3pm5pm Kidneys: 5pm7pm Winter Cold North

GB: 11pm1am Liver: 1am3am Spring East

Stomach: 7am9am Spleen: 9am11am Indian summer Dampness & humidity Center

Lungs: 3am5am LI: 5am7am Autumn Dryness West

Water
Orifice Sense Organ Bodily Fluid Parts of Body External Physical Manifestations Power Life Aspect Emotion Sound Color Flavor Smell Genitals, Urethra, Anus Ears Spittle, i.e., the saliva which constantly keeps the mouth irrigated Bones & bone marrow Head Hair Capacity to tremble; release tension and tightness Will power & ambition (Zhi) Fear Groaning Blue or Black Salty Putrid Boats, drowning, lying in water, being frightened, approaching a ravine, plunging into water, swimming, sensation of back and waist being split apart Beans & Peas Eyes Eyes

Wood
Ears

Fire
Tongue Sweat Blood vessels Complexion Capacity for sadness and grief Spirit (Shen) Joy, happiness Laughing Red Bitter Scorched Of fires, hills and mountains (when Heart is deficient), populous towns and busy thoroughfares (when SI is deficient); Fire is healthy if in dreams there is laughter or fear Glutinous millet Flesh Saliva

Earth
Mouth Nose Nose

Metal

(Bile?) Sinews & ligaments Nails, hands, feet Capacity for control Spiritual faculties (Hun) Anger Shouting Green Sour Rancid (urine; sour-sweet)

Mucous Skin & body hair Skin & body hair Capacity to cough; eliminate something irritable to your system Inferior animal spirit (Po) Grief Weeping White Pungent, spicy Rotten Of white objects; the cruel killing of people; strange metal objects; where crying, frightened or soaring through air; fields and rural landscapes (if LI is deficient) Rice

Capacity for obstinacy Ideas & Opinions (Yi) Sympathy Singing Yellow Sweet Fragrant (cloyingly sweet; the smell of burning flesh) Of starving, putting up walls or buildings, chanting and playing music, of a heavy body and difficulty rising, hills and marshes, ruined buildings, storms Millet

Dreams

Of mushrooms, being under a tree, forests, fights and battles, cutting open ones body Wheat

Grain

Water
Fruit Meat Vegetable Number Musical Note Instrument Dates Pork & Fish Leeks 6 Yu 25-stringed lute Left wrist, 3rd position: Superficial Bladder Deep Kidney

Wood
Peach Chicken, foul Mallow (okra?) 8 Chio Lute Left wrist, 2nd position: Superficial GB Deep Liver

Fire
Plum Lamb Course greens 7 Chih 36-reed mouth organ Left wrist, 1st position: Superficial SI Deep Heart Right wrist, 3rd position: Superficial TW Deep P

Earth
Apricot Beef Scallions 5 Kung Drum Right wrist, 2nd position: Superficial Stomach Deep Spleen

Metal
Chestnut Horse Onion 9 Shang

Pulse

Right wrist, 1st position: Superficial LI Deep Lungs