Historical records, current living practitioners of both fortune-tellers and TCM physician had all told us one thing.
The 5 elements of Wood, fire, earth, metal and water forms the foundation of everything in the world. The 5 elements are the bricks where systems were built upon.
The ancient theory of everything, are in the little elements. I will even go as far as to say that those elements found on the our periodic table are actually the descendants of the 5 elements.
The fortune-tellers make their predictions based on the positions, intensity, dynamic relations of the 4 elements in people's birth charts based on birthdays. While the TCM physicians treat diseases based on the Magic farmer manual of medicinal herbs aka 神农本草经. This book is one of the earliest documents containing information of 365 different herbs and their properties. Yeah, in the olden days the chinese actually started to observe and record everything down. The wealth of information are consistently collected and verified about the course of 6500 years at least. The authentic accuracy is very high. However then comes the cultural revolution, President Mao's pet project. Most precious information had been destroyed by fire.
The first few chapters of the Magic Farmer Amazing Manual of Medicinal herbs are almost the same as the books of fortune telling. Its all about Yin-Yang, Qi and the 5 elements.
Hence the chart as above, the classification of things according to the theory of 5 elements. Human organs are classified according to the elements. When one of the elements, or two or three went into overdrive, the body is no longer able to maintain harmony. Like the western concept of homeostasis, balance is the key.
