What Is The Five Elements Theory?
This theory states that the phases are constantly moving and changing and they are interconnected to everything in the material world. This interconnectivity lends to interdependence and a mutual restraint. If you look at Chinese medicine they use this theory to explain the way the human body works, why there is disease and how to treat it. To do this within the body the physicians tied the five phases to the Zang-fu (solid and hollow) organs and tissues of the body, and the environment. What they did was compare similarities to expose phenomenon, so that they took the different phenomena and compared them to the five elements and their characteristics. Based then on the characteristics, forms, functions they found connections between them and the way the body works. They used these same phenomena to link the way the human body operates and tied it to the environment in which a person lives. The interconnectedness and interdependence of the five phases on each other brings about a mutu
