The people of high antiquity who understood the Way modeled themselves on yin and yang, harmonized themselves with the methods of cultivation, were moderate in food and drink, regular in their daily activities, and did not exhaust themselves through labor — therefore both body and spirit remained whole, and they lived out their natural span, departing only after a hundred years.
Yin and yang are the Way of Heaven and Earth, the guiding thread of the ten thousand things, the father and mother of all transformations, the beginning of growth and decay, and the dwelling place of the numinous. In treating illness one must seek its root.
四时阴阳养生之本
The Four Seasons and Yin-Yang as the Root of Life-Nurture
The yin and yang of the four seasons are the root of the ten thousand things. Therefore the sages nourish yang in spring and summer and nourish yin in autumn and winter, following the root — and so they rise and sink with all things at the gate of birth and growth.
Yang qi in the human body is like Heaven and the sun: if it loses its proper place, life is cut short and vitality no longer shines. As Heaven's movement depends on the sun's light, so yang qi rises upward and outward, guarding the exterior against external evils.
When the three qi of wind, cold, and damp arrive together and combine, they form bi (impediment) syndrome. When wind predominates it is 'wandering bi'; when cold predominates it is 'painful bi'; when damp predominates it is 'fixed bi'.
A hundred diseases arise from qi. Anger makes qi ascend; joy makes qi slacken; grief makes qi dissipate; fear makes qi descend; cold makes qi contract; heat makes qi leak out; fright makes qi become chaotic; overwork exhausts qi; excessive thinking makes qi bind.
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@misc{bencaodian-huang-di-nei-jing,
author = {{Bencaodian Editorial}},
title = {Huáng Dì Nèi Jīng 黄帝内经 (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine) — 托名黄帝},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Bencao Dian: A Bilingual Knowledge Graph of Traditional Chinese Medicine},
url = {https://bencaodian.org/zh/texts/huang-di-nei-jing},
urldate = {2026-04-09},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}