The 5 Elements: Assessment

If the child is deficient, which rule applies and why?

1. Drain the mother, so she stops overloading it
2. Tonify the mother, because the child feeds from her
3. Tonify the controller, to balance the star

Place each finding in its phase.

• Frequent night urination and a cold lower backWoodFireEarthMetalWater
• Bitter taste in the morning with sighs of suppressed angerWoodFireEarthMetalWater
• Cracked lips and thick salivaWoodFireEarthMetalWater
• A faint voice and sweating on the least effortWoodFireEarthMetalWater
• A very red tongue tip and broken sleepWoodFireEarthMetalWater
• Flank pain that moves aroundWoodFireEarthMetalWater

A patient with a very high Heart fire has slept badly for a year and now has a dry mouth, scant urine and ringing ears. What has happened?

1. Fire has generated too much earth
2. Metal has stopped pruning wood
3. Fire has exhausted water, rebelling against the phase that should restrain it

Match each phase with the emotion that consumes it.

A cough relapsing every winter in someone bloated with loose stools. Build the plan.

What distinguishes over-acting from normal control?

1. Normal control keeps the balance and gives no symptoms; over-acting appears when the restrainer is in excess or the restrained one is weak
2. Over-acting runs in the opposite direction to control
3. Over-acting only happens between wood and earth