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yin and yang
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yin and yang

The passive (characterized as feminine, negative, intuitive) and active (characterized as masculine, positive, intellectual) principles of nature. Their interaction is believed to maintain equilibrium and harmony in the universe and to be present in all things. In Taoism and Confucianism they are represented by two interlocked curved shapes within a circle, one white, one black, with a spot of the contrasting colour within the head of each.



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fatigue, lethargy, weight gain, and cold intolerance) correspond to qi and yang deficiency and are treated accordingly.
Both are difficult to treat, even if Western clinicians use the drugs available to them and traditional Chinese practitioners treat the deficiency of qi and blood, the attack of external wind, dampness and heat, and yang deficiency.
In Chinese medicine it is believed that impotence is caused by a kidney yang deficiency and that the kidneys are some how connected to the reproductive system.
 
 
 
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