The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis: Healing Personal, Cultural, and Ecological Imbalance with Chinese Medicine

摘要

Yin and Yang, in Us and in the Climate: The concepts of Yin and Yang are among the oldest and most developed existing medical understandings. Yin in nature corresponds with cold temperatures, the winter season, moisture such as rain and humidity, and night. Yang corresponds to warmth, summer, dryness, and day. Yin is also associated with water, and Yang with fire. As in the Yin-Yang circle, Yin is represented by black and Yang is represented by white. Similar to how they are seen in nature, Yin and Yang are fundamental influences within us—Yin is stillness, rest, and inactivity; Yang is movement, doing, and activity.