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What are the five elements of medicine?
Five elements of medicine:

The center of five zang-organs belongs to fire, lung belongs to gold, liver belongs to wood, spleen belongs to soil, and kidney belongs to water.

Everything that has the function or property of growth, ascent and smoothness belongs to wood;

The mechanism of temperature, temperature or sex belongs to fire;

The mechanism of fertility, biochemistry and acceptance belongs to soil;

The mechanism of clearing, descending and converging belongs to gold;

There are cold, moist and healthy mechanisms, all of which belong to water.

Extended data:

The five elements have special meanings in traditional Chinese medicine.

1, "Jin Yue follows the leather", which represents the properties of settlement, cold and convergence. In human body, it is lung (dirty) and large intestine (fu-organs).

2. "Moisturizing under water" represents the nature of moistening, lowering, cold and hiding. In human body, it is kidney (viscera) and bladder (fu organs).

3. "Muyue Qu Zhi" represents the functions of growth, hair growth, smoothness and comfort, and is the liver (dirty) and gallbladder (fu-organs) of human body.

4. "Fire is burning", which represents the warm and upward nature, and is the heart (dirty) and small intestine (fu-organs) in the human body.

5. "Soil is like a grain", which represents the properties of biochemistry, fertility and acceptance. In human body, it is spleen (viscera) and stomach (fu organs).

6, the liver is angry, excessive anger will hurt the liver; The heart dominates happiness, and excessive happiness will make you sad; The main body of the spleen is worried, and excessive thinking will hurt the spleen; The lung governs sorrow, and excessive sorrow will hurt the lung; Kidney governs fear of dryness, and excessive fear of dryness will hurt the kidney.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-five elements