Preparing for Spring
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is based on the interaction of the human being with the environment. The five elements, fire, earth, metal, water and wood correspond with the body’s organs as well as the seasons – fire with the heart and summer, earth with the spleen and late summer, metal with the lung and autumn, water with the kidney and winter, and wood with the liver and spring. These five elements interact with each other in a continuous cycle of generation and co