Each element is associated with different organs, meridians, and characteristics.
Don’t get the Asian medicine elements mixed-up with the Ayurveda medicine elements.
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EARTH
- Season change
- Transformation
- Dampness
- Center
- Mouth
- Flesh/muscles
- Pensiveness/thought
- Singing
- Sweet
- Yellow
- Nourishing
- Imagination
FIRE
- Summer
- Growth
- Heat
- South
- Tongue
- Blood vessels
- Joy
- Laughing
- Bitter
- Red
- Warming
- Mind-spirit consciousness
METAL
- Autumn
- Harvest
- Dryness
- West
- Nose
- Skin
- Grief/sadness
- Crying
- Pungent
- White
- Drying
- Corporeal soul
WATER
- Winter
- Storage
- Cold
- North
- Ears
- Bones
- Fear
- Groaning
- Salty
- Black/dark blue
- Cooling/moistening Willpower
WOOD
- Spring
- Birth
- Wind
- East
- Eyes
- Tendons
- Anger
- Shouting
- Sour
- Green
- Flexibility
- Ethereal soul
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