What is Five Elements Music Therapy of Traditional Chinese Medicine?

When it comes to music, everyone is familiar with it. Today's people are busy with work, study, and life, and music can often affect people's emotions.

After a busy day at work, you will return to your cramped rental house on the bus or subway, put on your headphones, and a few pieces of music will soothe your mood; occasionally when things go wrong in your life, When you are physically and mentally exhausted, put on headphones and a few pieces of music can heal your heart.

Then why can music affect people’s emotions?

Music is an art that uses organized music to shape images, reflect real life, and express thoughts and feelings. The basic means of expression are melody and rhythm.

Music can penetrate deeply into people's hearts. In traditional Chinese medicine psychology, music can infect and regulate emotions, thereby affecting the body. Physiologically, when music vibration matches the physiological vibration in the human body (heart rate, rhythm, respiration, blood pressure, pulse, etc.), physiological vibrations and cries will occur. This is also the physical and mental foundation of "Five Sounds Therapy".

In medicine, the five internal organs can affect the five tones, and the five tones can regulate the five internal organs. Jiao Zheng Gong Shang Yu, the five tones and their combination have become a set of health care rituals. Among the ancient literati’s “Qin, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting” health-care techniques, the piano ranked first, which also shows that music is the most powerful in terms of self-cultivation. Then there was the Five Elements music.

So, what is Five Elements Music?

Five elements music combines the theory of yin and yang and the five elements and the unity of heaven, earth and man in traditional Chinese medicine with music.

Five elements music is the melody of the natural movement of heaven and earth, and the voice of Mother Nature’s cordial call to human beings and all things. Let us relax our body and mind, dissolve in nature, and dissolve in this beautiful music. Let our body and mind follow the melody of the five elements, cater to the natural way of heaven and earth, comply with the laws of the four seasons, and return to the embrace of nature.

Five elements music is a treasure in the treasure house of Chinese medicine. Ancient music only had five tones: Jiao, Zheng, Gong, Shang, and Yu. These five scales are assigned the attributes of the five elements by traditional Chinese philosophy: wood (horn), fire (sign), earth (palace), gold (business), water (feather); and the corresponding five tones are shout, laugh, and song. , crying, moaning; the five internal organs are the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys; the five wills are anger, joy, thinking, worry, and fear.

Characteristics of Five Elements Music and its Benefits to the Five Internal Organs

According to each person’s own body structure and the differences in the internal qi of the five internal organs, with different music, the five elements can be used to prevent diseases. , keep in good health. Of course, we do not use a certain sound to regulate a certain organ, but use the principle of the five elements to make them mutually reinforcing, inhibiting, and restricting each other. The five tones are combined and appropriately highlighted to harmonize the body.

Wood

Soothes the liver and relieves stagnation, assists liver and gallbladder detoxification

The sound of wood belongs to the scale of the liver: the horn sound is equivalent to the "Mi" sound. Corner-mode music: The earth is rejuvenating, all things are sprouting, and the melody is full of vitality. The melody is cordial and hearty. Best track: "Eighteen Beats of Hujia".

Hujia Eighteen Beats

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Bamboo Flute

Bamboo Flute

Muyu

Muyu

Wooden fish series repertoire, mostly using ancient Xiao, bamboo flute, wooden fish and other musical instruments, most of them have beautiful melodies, warm tunes, full of vitality, like the rejuvenation of the earth. It is composed of the horn music of the birth of all things. It has the accessibility and stretching properties of "wood" and can enter the liver. It can soothe the liver and relieve stagnation, strengthen the human "liver and gallbladder" system, promote gastrointestinal motility (to prevent constipation) and improve the detoxification function of the liver (assist in hepatobiliary detoxification).

When a person is angry, depressed or frustrated and in an extremely bad mood, or when hepatobiliary stagnation occurs, such as insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, headache, migraine, constipation and other symptoms, please use the Muyin series , it can help you soothe the liver and regulate qi, calm liver yang, and get rid of depression as soon as possible!

Fire

Refresh the brain, open up the blood vessels throughout the body

Fire sound, the heart-oriented scale: Zhengyin, equivalent to the "So" sound. Zhengtiao-style music: warm and joyful, lively and relaxed, forming an atmosphere with clear layers and cheerful temperament. Best piece: "Purple Bamboo Tune".

Purple Bamboo Tune

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Guqin

Guqin

Violin

Violin

The Huoyin series of repertoire mostly uses string instruments such as guqin and violin. Most of them are composed of Zhengtiao music with cheerful melodies and distinct layers, or exciting and joyful atmosphere. It has the characteristics of " The flaming and rising characteristics of "fire" can enter the heart. It has the function of awakening the brain, resuscitating the mind, and opening up the blood vessels. It can strengthen the functions of the human "heart (brain) and small intestine" systems and prevent the occurrence of certain cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and duodenal ulcers.

When people encounter setbacks or mental trauma, lose confidence in life or feel despair, fire energy music that can invigorate people as warm as the sun can keep people clear-headed and rekindle the courage to live. and hope.

Earth

Improves depression and regulates immune endocrine

Earth sound, a scale belonging to the spleen: Gongyin, equivalent to the "Do" sound. The style of palace-style music is melodious, quiet, honest and solemn. Best track: "House of Flying Daggers".

Sheng

Calabash Sheng

This series of folk music repertoire mostly uses Sheng, Calabash Sheng and other musical instruments. "It is composed of palace tune music with simple and honest characteristics. It condenses the deep energy of the earth and can enter the spleen. It can strengthen the function of people's "spleen and stomach" system, effectively regulate the body's physiological rhythm and autonomic nervous system, and improve the functions of endocrine and immune systems (especially effective for female endocrine disorders).

Please use the Tuyin series of music when you think too much or are depressed without thinking about eating, or when you suffer from insomnia, anxiety, depression, gastrointestinal dysfunction or autonomic nervous system disorder.

Gold

Calms the mind, calms dreams, and assists intestinal detoxification

The sound of gold belongs to the scale of the lungs: Shang sound, which is equivalent to the "Re" sound. The style of Shang-style music is high-pitched, tragic, sonorous and majestic. Best track: "Spring and White Snow".

Cymbals

Trombone

The Golden Sound series of repertoire mostly uses gongs, drums, chimes, cymbals, trombones, triangles and other instruments, most of which are composed of long melodies. It is composed of Shang tune music with broad vision or passionate style. It has the descending and convergent characteristics of "gold" and can enter the lungs. It has the effect of calming jitters and calming dreams, can strengthen the function of the "lung and large intestine" system, has a good promoting effect on the upper respiratory tract, lungs, skin, thyroid, etc., and can assist intestinal detoxification.

People who usually have nightmares, multiple dreams, frightening dreams, sleepwalking, hallucinations, etc. can use the strong power of Jinyin to awaken the awe-inspiring righteousness in their bodies, so that "souls and souls can unite" and their moods can be restored. Become peaceful and quiet, and your character will become strong and powerful!

Water

Concentrate the mind, deeply soothe and adjust

Water sound, the scale belonging to the lungs: Yuyin, Equivalent to the "La" sound. Feather style music: pure style, sad and sad, desolate and soft, like a crystal curtain hanging from the sky, flowing clouds and flowing water. Best piece: "Three Plum Blossom Lanes".

Chimes

Guzheng

The water music series mostly uses instruments such as guzheng and chimes. Most of them are pure in style, desolate and soft, and have the moisture of "water" It is composed of lower characteristic feather tune music and can enter the kidneys. It can best strengthen water quality energy and promote the function of "kidney and bladder" systems (such as adrenal glands, urogenital organs, etc.).

Quiet, focused and recuperative water energy music can not only ease and restrain impatience, but also treat inattention (such as ADHD in children), mental stress (such as insomnia and anxiety) and brain dysfunction. (such as cerebral palsy in children, etc.), giving deep soothing and regulating effects.

This is the reason why the Five Elements music can influence the body's qi and move the body's qi, regulate yin and yang, regulate qi and blood, maintain the dynamic balance of the qi in the body, and maintain human health.