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Autumn and the Metal Element

Posted: Oct 10, 2019

Days are shortening, the light is different, the mellowness of late summer diminishing. Autumn is a breath takingly beautiful time of year and yet we know it is also a time of decline; time to harvest, to consolidate, to prepare for the winter months.

Whilst we mourn the loss of those warm, long, bright days, and prepare for winter yet nature gives us this time to prepare and reflect.

This season is represented by the Metal element in Five element acupuncture. Chinese medicine defines the elements by associating organs, emotions, senses, colour together to give a resonance to the elements.

The emotion attuned to the Metal element is grief, and it is with a sense of grief and sadness we say farewell to the abundance of summer. The revelries of summer, like all good things come to an end, and with that knowledge we know what we are about to lose and what is to come.

That transition into a quieter, slower pace allows us to reflect, and it is the Metal element that is also about our need for inspiration, stimulation, intellect and it raises us up to a different plane.

The organs associated with Metal are the Lungs and the Large Intestine. The Lungs are responsible for taking in oxygen and helping with the distribution of blood through the body. In Chinese Medicine the lungs receive ancestral qi from the kidneys, they receive the nutritive qi from the stomach and spleen and distribute throughout the body. They are also seen as a connection between our earthly selves with our heavenly selves, they are seen as our link to the heavens. Symbolically our lungs represent our ability to absorb, appreciate, connect, whilst the large intestine is connected more with the need to eliminate what is either toxic or what needs to be expelled from the body. The functions of both these organs represent reflection and appreciation of what nourishes and supports us, and the acceptance that change is inevitable and for us to move through into the next phases or season we have to accept and let go.

When these organs are out of balance physically there may be issues around the immune system, frequently catching colds, bronchial problems, allergies, asthma (lungs) and irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, abdominal pains with the large intestine. Emotionally there may be some rigidity, inability to flex, how to give and take, hold and let go.

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