Fall Season: METAL Element.

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Fall Season: METAL Element

The Large Intestine and Lung meridians are part of the Metal element (or movement); let us now consider the Lung meridian.

THE LUNG – FEI:

1- governs Qi and breathing;

2- control the meridians and blood vessels;

3- controls diffusion, descent and elimination;

4- regulate the water passages;

5- opens in the nose and manifests itself on the skin and hair;

6- houses the Po (corporeal souls);

I PO – CORPORATE SOULS:

The Po are the most physical and material part of the psyche, linked to instinct and conditioned reflexes. They are also “earth spirits” (Gui), Yin in nature, who will return to Earth at the time of death.

Emotions:

Sadness and affliction damage the Po and the Lung.

THE SHEN OF THE LUNG

In the middle of the autumn season, when the Qi begins to be internalized in the face of the cold, the energy of the Lung and Large Intestine takes precedence over that of the other organs, due to the moment of its maximum expansion.

It is said that SADNESS “disperses” the Qi of the Lung and Large Intestine and consequently blocks their functions.

As was recently commented during the last Dietetics lesson dedicated to autumn, more than sadness I would speak of introspection, since this is the positive quality of the energetic activity of the Lung, while the Large Intestine is responsible for the possibility of expelling what is not it is necessary.

In fact, considering that the Lung is the seat of the PO (7 in total), responsible for both vital movements, such as breathing, and the instinctive and “sensitive” aspect at a psycho-emotional level, we can affirm that in the movement of metal , the ability to clarify and the energy that characterizes the exchange with the outside on an emotional level (accept – hold and let go of what is no longer needed), are characteristic of this element and therefore of the season. In fact, the PO, a yin aspect contrastable to the Hun of the Liver (yang aspect), precede the body, as an expression of the psycho-emotional “constitution” of the individual. In this sense, defining the emotion of the Metal element as INTROSPECTION, instead of SADNESS as it is commonly written, gives a better idea of the withdrawal within oneself in a positive and negative sense, up to total isolation (DEPRESSION).

Claudia Delle Donne – TCM Practitioner

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Of all the elements, the earth appears last and not the first: in fact, creation starts precisely from the most ethereal, most subtle: first the ether, then the light, the air and the water, and then it gradually solidifies until become solid, firm, complete. In fact, the earth includes the fire of magma that moves under its mantle and is permeated with air and water.

The earth is defined in Genesis as “raw material” and in the book of changes (I Ching), it corresponds to the sign of the ancestral force of the feminine that welcomes, nourishes and protects.

All primitive cultures, closer to nature than now, recognized the life-giving power of the earth and often considered it as a single organism, a living and pulsating unit capable of shaping itself into vegetation, animals and human beings. For many peoples, the earth was the very body of a goddess who dispensed energy, health, prosperity: Mother Earth; Plants, herbs, roots, minerals and crystals were, therefore, gifts of inestimable value that the divinity gave to men as food and protection from misfortunes and diseases (The Great Mother in ancient cultures). And it is precisely from this ancient conception of the earth, as a mother that forges all living forms from its own substance, that natural cures with clays, medicinal herbs, gems, etc. are born.