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The nearest concepts in Western thought are:‘active’, ‘positive’ and ‘expansive’. These particular components – daytime, light, warmth, activity and the sun – all share an essential quality. During the day it is light and warm, the sun is out and people are active. This quality was designated as either Yin or Yang. In other words there is an essential quality that is common to one partner in each pair. There is some sort of correlation between the individual components of different pairs of opposites.They noticed two important features of the relationships between opposites: “Yin-Yang is the way of heaven and earth, the guiding alignment of all matters, the parentage of all change, the origin of birth and death.” The ancients Chinese observed these principles in the natural events around them: day and night, light and darkness, growth and decay, activity and rest, summer and winter, man and woman, hot and cold, heaven and earth, sun and moon, etc. These opposite principles are complementary to one another, yet may also be in opposition to each other.

All things and phenomena in the universe contain two opposite aspects (Yin and Yang) which are, at the same time both interdependent and in conflict. The ancient Chinese philosophers used ‘Yin’ and’Yang’ to explain the changes that occur in nature. One of the key theoretical foundations of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the twin concept of Yin and Yang.