If you go back to the Chinese Yin Yang symbol you will see the Yin (the black) contains a seed of Yang (in the form of a white dot). Quite simply, good health is maintained by balancing Yin and Yang.īut a healthy Yin and Yang goes beyond balance. Whether to heal, or to increase an individuals’ immunity, the relationship between Yin and Yang is critical. These physical changes do not make the body less of its own organic universe by their very nature, Yin and Yang are in constant flux and seek their own balance.
Today we treat kidney disease, liver disease, blood disorders and various cancers with a variety of drugs and other interventions. People can live with one kidney, with less than two lungs and or less of their stomach with which they were born. Today, people live without their gallbladders and appendix.
Whether for better or worse, society has marched from 700 BC to 2019 with various western interventions. Given this inter-connectivity of Yin and Yang, diseases are not seen as entities separate from the body, but are seen as symptoms of a Yin and Yang imbalance. TCM practitioners study other “Yin Yang pairs” throughout the body: the interior (Yin) vs the exterior (Yang), the front (Yin) vs the back (Yang), the inside (Yin) vs the outside (Yang) of the limbs. The upper body belongs to the Yang while the lower body belongs to the Yin. Organs and tissues are classified according to the Yin Yang theories tied to organ locations. Health is based on opposing and complimentary relationships of the Yin and Yang. TCM believes that the human body is an organic unity – a universe – unto itself. These changes are seamless and complete each other. They watched and documented seasonal changes Summer into Autumn into Winter into Spring and back to Summer. Scholars documented how day turns into night and the night turns into morning. Thousands of years ago, ancient scholars observed constant, cyclical changes around them and took note of the continual balance and harmony that exists in all things. Scholars have documented that Yin-Yang is first referenced in I Ching (The Book of Changes) written around 700 BC. The concept of Yin and Yang serves not only to understand ones’ health, but to diagnose and treat illnesses as well as for the TCM practitioner to understand – and ultimately to teach the patient – the physiology, pathology and treatment of the illness. When one dominates the other, it brings about an imbalance that can result in ill health.Īccording to the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation, the theory of Yin and Yang drives TCM healthcare, much as rationalism – the search for and emphasis of basic mechanisms of disease – influences most Western medical diagnoses. When the two opposing forces are in balance we feel good. In exactly the same way, the body, mind and emotions are all subject to the influences of the Yin and Yang. However, if the Yang (flame) burns too brightly and becomes out-of-control, it can cause an excess of wax which may extinguish the flame. One can easily see how Yin and Yang depend on the other for their existence and how you cannot have one without the other. When the wax (Yin) is gone, the flame is gone as well. Yang consumes Yin, and in that process, the candle burns brightly.
Yin (wax) nourishes and supports the Yang (flame) but the flame needs the wax for its existence. The wax represents the Yin while the flame represents the Yang. What most people do not know is that the concept of Yin-Yang is the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Īn easy way to understand the concept of Yin and Yang is to think of a candle. Each side contains a small circle of the opposite color, demonstrating the belief that nothing is never really all Yin or all Yang there is some Yang in Yin and vice-versa. That curved line symbolizes the constant change of balance between the Yin and Yang. By Susan Tretakis – Most people have heard or read the words “Yin” and “Yang” many are familiar with the Yin-Yang symbol consisting of a circle, divided by a curved line into a black (Yin) and white (Yang) side.
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