Yin and Yang in Chinese Medical Assessment The concepts of Yin and Yang are foundational to understanding TCM’s nomenclature and inner workings. This is the touchstone of maintaining health. The goal of TCM is to maintain an individual’s health of mind/body/spirit, or, if dis-ease has set in, to return an individual to a state of balance and harmony. These five precepts delineate qualities through which Yin and Yang are expressed in all phenomena. Yin and Yang engender change in each other Yin and Yang mutually define one another’s parameters Yin and Yang Elements may be subdivided into Yin and Yang components
Yin and Yang are two phases of one universal cyclical movement There are five traditional primary observations used to illustrate and define parameters governing the powerful relationship of Yin and Yang. Balance is our home to return to, our healing spring. Balance exists between the definition it is our most powerful attribute. For to define great health, we must define great dis-ease. Balance does not ask for healthy or unhealthy it simply is, moment-to-moment. To define one ‘thing’, is to create another. When elements of nature become out of balance (human beings are, of course, included in the realm of natural phenomena, and conscript in the loss of balance), balance can be restored but it is paramount to acknowledge that to have great strength there must be weakness, to have power there will be the powerless, to have light there must be darkness to remove … and so on. Indeed, nature exists healthily, in balance. The existence of Yin and Yang is a continual movement and transference of energy. Yet upon reflection, like the moon in a pool, these claims blur when we examine the interlocking influences of all phenomena balancing under day and night, in the influential dance of life. High noon is the time of maximum Yang and minimum Yin. Midnight is the time of maximum Yin and minimum Yang. The 24-hour day/night cycle is a continually changing process, a cascade of moments. Night is defined in her Yin qualities of: darkness, coolness, and stillness.ĭay is defined in his Yang qualities of: light, warmth, and activity. The traditional example illustrating this concept is the 24-hour cycle of day and night. There is no right without left, no pain without comfort, no rest without work each definition gestates its counterpart. The Chinese concept of Yin/Yang is represented in the opposing polarities found in all phenomena.
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