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Such a symbol consists of a circumference with two symmetric figures.
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These philosophical principles are well expressed in the symbol of the TAI-CHI that synthetically expresses the relation between the Yin and the Yang (see figure). That is why the Chinese will consider health as a perfect balance of opposite forces, while disease will become first of all the loss of the natural harmony. Also in Man these opposite principles are at the basis of his expressions: from the most concrete ones linked to his “ bios”, to the most subtle ones belonging to his ideo-affective world. As you cannot think about the cold without the heat, the darkness without the light, the winter without the summer and so on, the same happens from the reciprocal interacting of the opposed principles: the alternating of darkness and light determines the day, of winter and summer originates the following of the seasons, of the earth and the sky gives the sense of the space. In the broad sense, the Yin is the passive principle that analogically summarizes all the aspects of inertia like the cold, the darkness, the earth, the winter and so on, whereas the Yang is the active principle that in the broad sense expresses the heat, the light, the sky, the day, the summer and so on. The Chinese consider the Yin-Yang, dynamic and opposite polar principles at the basis of any changes. The microcosm and the macrocosm are to be thought not as static and immutable units, but on the contrary as dynamic syntheses of forces continuously in movement and determining in their becoming the phenomenal manifestations. Therefore that order that is present in the Universe will be also present in Man, and the harmony that governs its immutable laws will express in Man as the synthesis of harmonized parts in the whole. But the term “cosmos” etymologically summarizes two closely related meanings: the order and the harmony. Philosophically and concretely speaking, Man is defined as a microcosm that analogically repeats in its own totality’ the laws of the greater cosmos, the Macrocosm. The Chinese medicine is therefore defined as a complete medicine that tries to integrate in a unitary and dynamic vision the different phenomenological aspects of Man. A proof of this is how historically the Chinese medicine, as well as its philosophy, as widely known establishes not as an abstract interpretation of speculative and theoretical data, but as a result of a millennial observation of the natural cosmic rhythms (the alternation of day and night, the following of seasons, the changing of the constellations and so on) in accordance with the rhythms of Man (the sleep and wakefulness, the different stages of the growth of Man, from childhood to old age and so on.). Such a vast program may appear paradoxical for our Western mentality accustomed to mainly use, in the gnoseologic context, an analytical-experimental criterion of survey, but for the Eastern attitude more synthetic and integrating, it constitutes a natural application of its structural premises. That is why the laws at the basis of the traditional Chinese medicine and of the acupuncture in particular, summarize general and totalizing meanings not limited to the single reality of Man, and organize all the Universe phenomena. In other words it wishes to relate the Man-Microcosm to the Universe-Macrocosm. The Chinese medicine qualifies as a “cosmologic” medicine, that tries to relate the inner “order” of Man to the universe Man belongs to. In this sense the Chinese medicine stands as ‘unique’ specifically in the history of medicine and generally speaking in the philosophical thought. The “tradition” is not to be thought in opposition to the “revolution” defined as that immediate “ renovatio” almost unrelated to its past, but as the actualization of the infinite perspectives revealed by its Latin etymon “ trado”, whose aim is the regeneration of the human being.
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What is meant by “traditional”? Not certainly past and ancient concepts not actual anymore, the reference is to atemporal and perennial values inscribed in the biopsychological history of Man, in his phylogeny. The Yin and Yang are at the basis of the traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy. "Oriente e Occidente tra Materia e Spirito", Numero XIV, Giugno 2015, Anno V MATERIA PRIMA Rivista di Psicosomatica Ecobiopsicologica The Yin and Yang symbolism in the Traditional Chinese Medicine