Theory of yin yang helps define the
inner functioning of nature and it provides clarification of why there
is night and day, light and dark, good and evil, right and wrong, male
and female, etc.
The two energies of yin and yang are of
direct opposites and so one feed the other the energy it lacks. It is
through this interchange that they convert from the inside out and
become each other, creating the continually repeated cycle from life to
death to life again.
Yin & Yang Symbol
Meaning of yin
and yang in Chinese are bright and dark sides of an object. Traditional
Chinese uses yin and yang to represent a wider range of opposite
properties in the universe: cold and hot, slow and fast, low and high,
male and female, right and wrong, etc.
Yang
In general Yang
is characterized as anything that is moving, ascending, bright,
progressing, and hyperactive, including functional disease of the body,
pertains to yang.
Yin
In general Yin is characterized as
anything that is stillness, descending, darkness, degeneration,
hypo-activity, including organic disease, pertain to yin.
Functioning of Yin-Yang
The
functioning of yin and yang is guided by the law of unity of the
opposites or conflicting, but at the same time mutually dependent. The
nature of yin and yang is coexistence means neither being able to exist
in isolation. Without "cold" there would be no "hot"; without "moving"
there would be no "still"; without "dark", there would be no "light".
Opposites
in all objects and phenomena are in continuous motion and change: The
growth and advance of the one mean the decline and retreat of the
other.
For example; day is yang and night is yin, but morning
is consider as being yang within yang, afternoon is yin within yang,
evening and before midnight is yin within yin and the time after
midnight and before morning is yang within yin.
Yin-Yang balance and imbalance effects
TCM
consider human life as a physiological process in constant motion and
change. At normal conditions, the increase and decrease of yin and yang
are kept within certain range, reflecting a dynamic equilibrium of the
physiological processes. When the balance is affected or disturbed,
disease develops.
Typical disease causing yin-yang imbalances include; excess of yin, excess of yang, deficiency of yin, and deficiency of yang.
