Chinese pathology treats every organ of the body as a moving process, as the entire body is in a process of decaying, like the river flowing downwards. Stability is viewed as in a state of ephemeral whirlpool.8 Chinese medicine treats ailment as a disturbance of the natural equilibrium in the body, and tries to send input to the body to sustain its vitality to slow down the process of decay. After all, the human body, like all other beings in the universe, is the combination of yin and yang and the five elements. I would like to make clear that I am neither a believer of the five elements and yin and yang , nor sceptical about the expertize in them which I have no share in me. There could be some similarities between the Chinese ancient and tribal cosmogonies and those of India.
Indian scholars are welcome to explore the field.
Ibid ., p. 1354. Ibid ., p. 188. Jin Chunfeng, op cit ., p. 132. Ibid ., p. 133.