Wood🪵Fire🔥Earth🌍Metal⚔️Water💧 Five elements. Five organ systems. Five emotions. Five seasons. Five flavours. In TCM, everything maps back to these five — your body, your personality, your patterns of illness, and your relationship with the world. 1. Wood 木 -Organ: Liver & Gallbladder -Season: Spring -Emotion: Anger / Frustration -Gift when balanced: Vision, creativity, the ability to plan and move forward -Shadow when imbalanced: Rigidity, resentment, PMS, neck and shoul
The Landscape Within As the seasonal mists of Hong Kong give way to the early summer heat, the heavy humidity in the air often mirrors the stagnation within. In the philosophy of the Five Elements, excessive Dampness burdens the Earth element (Spleen), dulling our internal vitality and leaving the mind clouded. You are not sluggish; your body is simply adapting to the heavy atmosphere. To clear the inner mist, we must warm the center and let our Qi flow freely once more, like
