Health is Wealth – We are what we eat

In Chinese Metaphysics or the Chinese 5 Arts, one of the most important subjects is health, wellbeing, and healing through Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), known as "Yi" in Chinese.

TCM and Ayurveda, two of the oldest records related to human health, suggest that human beings are born with the ability to self-heal and balance their energy or "qi." However, certain lifestyle choices, activities, or diets can disrupt this balance and lead to health problems. TCM offers various healing methods, such as acupuncture and herbs, to restore balance and harmony to the body's energy systems.

TCM is based on the fundamental principles of Chinese metaphysics, namely yin and yang with the five elements representing both polarities. TCM categorizes various body organs into five elements with yin and yang polarity. During a person's birth, they have already absorbed energy from the moment of birth, including the year, month, day, and hour elements, making these energies building blocks for the body. Some people may have weaker organs due to a lack of a specific element at the time of birth or due to clashes between elements in their birth chart. A Bazi consultant can help decode the birth chart and suggest enhancements through "man luck." Please refer to my earlier article on birth chart and elemental energy for more information. (Birth chart ; 4 pillars) 

Element	Ying Organ	Yang Organ	Interesting facts
Wood	Liver	Gall Bladder	A person with good quality wood element will have a good vitality as liver associated to wood.  Liver purified blood that bring nutrients to the rest of body. Liver detox is essential in maintaining
Fire	Heart, pericardium	Small intestine, triple burner	When there is fire water clash in the birth chart and environment energy, high chance of heart attack
Earth	Spleen	Stomach	It is advisable to drink warm water or exercise to get heat to strengthen digestive system.  Fire strengthen earth
Metal	Lungs	Large intestine	A body defense system depend very much on strength of lungs and colon. Lung can be nourish through breathing of good quality air.
Water	Kidney	Urinary/Bladder	Drink a lot of water to flush out the toxin in the kidney

Chinese metaphysics studies energy patterns within ourselves and the environment. Human energy derives from the food we eat, and in order to stay healthy, we must maintain a balanced diet, which has become a universal mantra. A balanced diet in TCM means balancing yin and yang and the five elements. TCM practitioners divide food into yin (cooling food) and yang (warming food) categories based on the taste and color of the food, followed by the five-element category.  

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Ying Cooling food examples	Yang warming food examples
Vegetables, fruits, fish,  honey, watermelons	Black pepper, cherry , chives, spices, dates, garlic, ginger, lamb

Elements	Taste	Colour	Food example
Wood	Sour	Green	Oats, wheat, green vegetable, avocado, grape, lemon, lime
Fire	Bitter	Red	Amaranth, corn, red bell pepper, tomato, beet, cherry, persimmon
Earth	Sweet	Brown	Millet, barley, peas, cabbage, carrot, spinach, fig, orange, papaya
Metal	Pungent	White/Grey	Rice, almonds, asparagus, broccoli, celery, apricot, banana, pear
Water	Salty	Blue/Purple	Buckwheat, walnut, Kale, mushroom, seaweed, water chestnut

Since our energy derives from the food we eat, it is advisable to consume food as close as possible to its natural form, fresh and direct from the source. The existence of the Homo sapiens species dates back more than 30,000 years, and while we have evolved in several ways, our body biochemistry has not changed that much. Our body enzymes are designed to break down natural food into energy packets that our body cells can easily absorb. Unfortunately, processed food has become popular over the years for its convenience and taste, but it has "contaminated" our eating habits. Processed food goes through a long supply chain, and each transformation step alters the natural chemical and energy structure of the food cell. Our body cannot recognize the modified chemical structure and therefore cannot metabolize the food properly, leading to toxins.

Natural Food chain which consist of 3-5 chain before comsumption

Processed food chain which could consist of 10 or even more chains

Processed foods can be a significant source of harmful chemicals that can wreak havoc on our health. It's true that we are what we eat, so consuming too much junk food can have a devastating impact on our well-being. When processed foods contain excessive amounts of salt, sugar, or other chemicals, they can negatively affect our body and brain chemistry. These unhealthy chemicals turn into toxins that can cause our cells to mutate and cloud our mental clarity. Countless studies have shown that healthy people tend to eat natural foods in moderation. Overindulging in food can overwork our digestive system and lead to imbalances that hinder our physical and mental performance. When our energy is focused on digesting food, we may find it challenging to think with clarity and make wise decisions. Therefore, it's important to remember that a healthy body and mind are essential for success in all aspects of life.

Application of birth chart analysis to manage your children

Many parents had shared with me the great challenges that they had in bringing up their millennials or post millennials (born 1990 onwards) children.  They have difficulties in managing their behavior and guiding them to the path which enable them to find purpose and propel them to the next level in their life.  Worst still, most of the millennials do not even what they want to achieve in life or realize what is their ambition and their parent are equally as lost.

Considering that the world is very much online than it was 30 years ago, the millennials had been exposed to various environmental influences from the social media and games which could have program their neurons in brain to be connected in different ways then the generation before.  With so much distraction from the environment, it could cloud the young minds and create a bigger generation gap compare to previous few generations.  Generations gap will cause miscommunication and with confuse mind, it become an obstacle for parent in the upbringing of the children. 

All is not lost as the influence of external environment cannot never overtake the imprint of the character through energy absorb from the time of birth.  This means parent will be able to understand their offspring character better if they can get help to decode all elemental energy through date and time of birth or known as bazi. 

There are 5 elements according to Chinese metaphysics wood, fire, earth, metal and water with ying and yang orientation, therefore there are 10 day stem.  The day stem will become our self-element depending which day stem we are born.  If a person born in yang wood day, then the self-element, day master is yang wood/jia (refer my previous article http://www.5elementsharmonylife.com/2018/05/the-time-and-direction-dimension-in.html).  However, a person mode of operation is largely governed not by the day master, but by dominant element/s in birth chart and how it interacts with self-element through cyclic relationship. 

5 elements relationship  produce/weaken/control cycle

Since there are 5 elements with its relationship to the self-element, generally there are 5 groups people.   The 5 groups are per table below:-

5 elements cyclic relationship	Strength	Weakness	How to nurture them	Suggested type of work
Resource type Dominant element which feed the self, receive support and nutrition to produce self	Can learn and gain knowledge, analyze data. Intellectual	Slow and lazy, as they have access to resource which create them	Find good teacher, teach them be more action oriented, follow up on them with proper schedule	Scientist, researcher, data analyst, actuaries, statistician
Buddy type Dominant element which same as self, become team to self	Team player, can network and connect with another person	Can influence by bad friends, disorganize, competitive, selfish	Team sports, be friend to them, encourage cooperation, learn by team activity, enhance communication	Sales and marketing, public relation, lobbyist
Constraint type Dominant element clash into self-element, self element being controlled	Follow direction, helpful, anti-conflict, nice person	Put a stop to own growth, become door mat	Give them clear direction and goal, clear cause and reasons, make them feel important, nurture their courage to go fore	Create system and procedure, systematic work
Output type Self-produce dominant element, need to create self	Creative, lots of idea, expressive	Moody like artist, unrealistic, loner	Give them space to explore their ideas, learn by experience, cultivate their presentation skills	Artist, performer, creative field
Possessive (wealth) type Self- element control the dominant element	Can make decision, take action, risk taker	Cunning, arrogant, bully, stingy	Encourage them to be leader, have a lot of goal to keep them busy, cultivate leadership skill and generosity	Manager, leader, business owner

Some people could have two to three dominant element and they become more complex esp. those with opposing dominant element such as output and constraint group.  Output element is those who are disorganize and very creative which is the opposite of constraint group who is systematic and follow rules.  An expert bazi consultant would be able to find the dominant element in the chart and reveal how the day master interact with dominant element. This  information to manage your children and guide to the path of maximum return for them in all aspects of their life such as career, wealth, relationship, etc.  This will enable you to understand them and their potential better through their elemental energy pattern in their birth chart.  It will also result in better communication and relationship when you start to speak their language which resonant with their life energy. 

Multiple Application of Birth Chart Information in Life

By now we would have already know that the 4 pillar bazi birth chart  contain information on person’s character, wealth and career luck, health, relationship, children. Bazi can be even be deciphered what is in store for us in life and when a certain event happen in our life through 10 year and annual luck pillar.      

Besides the 4 pillars in birth chart represent year, month, day and hour,  each person will have luck pillar which will change every 10 years.  There is formula to derive the age of the person when will luck pillar start which could range from 1 to 9 year old).  Nowadays there many software capable of doing the calculation of luck cycle.   There are always something or someone either positive or negative waiting to come into your life in each luck cycle.  It is very important we can at least guestimate what and when will happen so that we are prepare to receive our present in life.  If there is something good such as wealth making opportunity then we would like to get ready with all skillset to harness all opportunities given.  If there some risk even such as potential breakup in a relationship then we will need to take action to mitigate the risk.

Below are the examples on how we can apply those information available through our birth chart to improve our life through  our wealth, health and relationship.  There is always action for us to take in every luck cycle in order to reap the rewards or mitigate risk that could come to us.

Information in birth chart	Birth chart element	Deployment
Personality	Day master Dominant element Chart interaction Stem and branch	Aware of your own character, your strength and understand people around you such as your boss, your staff, enemy, competitor character and their fear for you to gain upper hand in managing them to become useful to you and vice versa
Nobleman	Availability of nobleman star in Earthly Branch or luck/year pillar	Know where to find your nobleman, when will they appear to help in certain aspect of your life.  Aware you could be nobleman to others and contribute to their life.
Career	Dominant element  and 10 gods	Quantified your affinity to the 5 elements to determine which element type of industry you are suitable for.  Use 10 gods to determine you work function to have the highest return in wealth. Know when is best time to do learning,  branding and prepare your self for  the next level in your career.
Wealth	Wealth and output star, luck/year pillar	Element and position of wealth star and output star to determine what should you focus on to get your wealth.  Know when is your money making opportunity and when is the challenging time
Spouse relationship	Day branch and its content, luck/year pillar	Understand when you can meet the other half and when is your challenging time in relationship and what action can you take
Children	Hour pillar and luck/year  cycle	To predict when you will have children and even the gender
Health	Over flow of energy 5 element in chart,  strongest and weakest element	To know what is your weakest organ related to 5 elements, and approximate when you will have difficult time to be extra careful

Since the birth chart had given us a wealth of information about ourselves,  we should use these information to alleviate and enrich our life journey.  Knowing what is in store for us in different phase of our life journey will enable us to plan and execute appropriate action to maximize the rewards in life and minimize the risk in life. Definitely we will have an edge in this competitive world.