The Five Elements

Space

Air

Fire

Water

Earth

Eight Principal Patterns of Disharmony - the Eight Entities:

The most basic, most important, and most easily understood elements of TCM theory are the Eight Principal Patterns of disharmony, sometimes called the Eight Entities. These eight patterns are Heat, Cold, Excess, Deficiency, Interior, Exterior, Yin and Yang. The more complex terminology for differentiating patterns of disharmony usually incorporates one or more of these basic patterns.

Energies:

Hot = Pitta

Cold = Vata or Kapha

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