Five Elements correspondence chart
A concise, sourced reference to the season, color, and flavor associations currently verified in Yangsheng Daily’s Five Elements dataset.
How to read this chart
A correspondence chart places traditional associations beside the Five Elements. The entries below are limited to the categories currently present in Yangsheng Daily’s canonical, sourced data: season, color, and flavor.
A correspondence is an association within a traditional framework. It does not establish biomedical causation, and it should not be read as a diagnosis or as a recommendation to use a color, flavor, or season for treatment.
Why the chart is deliberately limited
Five Elements traditions can include additional correspondence categories, and historical sources or lineages may vary. This reference does not fill those categories from memory. It shows only values that have been added to the project’s verified correspondence dataset.
The chart is therefore a starting point for learning the system’s structure, not a complete medical or historical encyclopedia.
Verified traditional correspondences
Sources
These sources support the traditional framework and terminology described here. They are not evidence of biomedical efficacy or treatment.
- WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Chinese Medicine — World Health Organization (2022).