Five-Element Thinking
A comparison of five-element paradigms in Āyurveda, Tibetan Medicine, and Chinese Medicine.
Ayurvedic five-element theory is known in Sanskrit as panchamahābhūta––pancha means "five", mahā means "great". Bhūta has a range of meanings, “spirit”, “element”, “becoming”. Chinese five-element theory is known in Chinese as wu xing, variously translated as "five phases" and "five elements". Modern scholars of Chinese medicine appear to prefer the tra…
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