Colour: | red |
Season: | summer |
Sense Organ: | tongue |
Emotion: | +ve: joy, happiness, expressive, energetic, changeable, inspiring -ve: aggressive, lacks confidence, worries, restless, ambitious |
Body Orifice: | ears |
Body part: | blood vessels |
Capacity: | sadness |
Life Aspect: | spirit |
Meridians/Times of the Day: | Heart (11am-1pm), Small Intestine (1-3pm) Circulation/sex (7-9pm); Triple warmer (9-11pm) |
Colour: | red |
Chakra: | solar plexus |
Emotion: | +ve: enthusiasm, confidence, idealism, innovative, ambition -ve: anger, arrogance, bitter, selfish, reckless, self-indulgent, irritable |
Body Function: | digestion |
Sense: | sight |
Characteristics: | +ve: enabling, forgiving, inspiring -ve: controlling, short-tempered, selfish |
Colour: | yellow |
Season: | late summer |
Sense Organ: | mouth |
Emotion: | +ve: sympathy, steady, honest, reliable, loyal, logical -ve: stubborn, lonely, acquisitive, self-seeking, demanding |
Body Orifice: | mouth |
Body part: | flesh |
Capacity: | belching |
Life Aspect: | ideas |
Meridians/Times of the Day: | Spleen (9-11am); Stomach (7-9am) |
Colour: | yellow |
Chakra: | root |
Emotion: | +ve: courage, refined, secure, reliable, traditional -ve: obstinate, fearful, lazy, acquisitive, perfectionist, insecure |
Body Function: | structure, stability |
Sense: | smell |
Characteristics: | +ve: ability to complete, grounded, spiritual -ve: stuck, dull, ineffective |
Colour: | white |
Season: | autumn |
Sense Organ: | nose |
Emotion: | +ve: faithful, helpful, disciplined, organised, self-reliant -ve: grief, nervous, destructive, oversensitive, self-preserving, rigid |
Body Orifice: | nose |
Body part: | skin and body hair |
Capacity: | cough |
Life Aspect: | animal-self |
Meridians/Times of the Day: | Lung (3-5am); Large Intestine (5-7am) |
Colour: | blue, dark blue, black |
Season: | winter |
Sense Organ: | ears |
Emotion: | +ve: resourceful, honest, sensual, brave, dreamy, creative -ve: fear, phobia, sly, self-serving, cowardly, secretive, pessimistic |
Body Orifice: | anus, genitals |
Body part: | head hair |
Capacity: | trembling to create release |
Life Aspect: | willpower |
Meridians/Times of the Day: | Kidney (5-7pm); Bladder (3-5pm) |
Colour: | orange, white |
Chakra: | sacral |
Emotion: | +ve: passion, clarity, caution, sensitive, loving -ve: jealousy, loneliness, fantasy, stubborn, possessive |
Body Function: | reproduction, fluid transport (blood, lymph) |
Sense: | taste |
Characteristics: | +ve:creative, flowing, release, warm -ve: compulsive, obsessive, unwilling to change |
Colour: | green |
Season: | spring |
Sense Organ: | eyes |
Emotion: | +ve: steady, sympathetic, gentle, helpful, logical, tough -ve: anger, competitive, perfectionist, impatient |
Body Orifice: | eyes |
Body part: | nails, hands, feet |
Capacity: | control |
Life Aspect: | spiritual faculties |
Meridians/Times of the Day: | Liver (1-3am); Gallbladder 11pm-1am) |
Colour: | green |
Chakra: | heart |
Emotion: | +ve: compassion, co-operative, inventive, optimistic -ve: greed, impulsive, distant, excitable,easily distracted |
Body Function: | breathing, nerves, immunity |
Sense: | touch |
Characteristics: | +ve: honest, humorous, independent, practical -ve: judgemental,impatient, intolerant, frustrated |
Colour: | blue |
Chakra: | throat |
Emotion: | +ve: joy, capacity to hold space for others to develop and grow -ve: grief, isolated, lack of awareness of others |
Body Function: | ability to swallow, subtle energy flows & communication |
Sense: | hearing |
Characteristics: | +ve: expressive, silence, self-exploration -ve: controlling, manipulative, over zealous |