Music scales | Nature | Name | Meaning | Effect | Indication |
Gong Earth Spleen Stomach | Yang | Shining Sun above the Dantian | The shining sun like a ball of fire, warms and eliminates dampness | Warming the spleen and lifting Yang Qi | Poor appetite, fatigue, depression, diarrhea, sunken organs |
Yin | Jade Fluids Returning to Dantian | The jade fluids like a cool and sweet spring water nourish stomach | Clearing fire, harmonizing stomach, and removing food stagnation | Epigastric distention, depressed stomach fire | |
Shang Metal Lung Large Intestine | Yang | Bell and Drum Music in Evening with Sunset Glow | The bell and drum voices are spreading under the setting sun kindling the sky | Supplementing lung Qi, unblocking chest and consolidating Wei-defensive Qi | Wheezing, too weak to spit phlegm, sweating, aversion to wind |
Yin | Autumn Breeze and Morning Dew | In the midnight of a clear autumn with full moon, it’s slightly cold. Dew is produced to moisture the leaves | Generating Yin and clearing heat, nourishing lungs and generating fluids | Dry cough, fever and restlessness | |
Jue Wood Liver Bladder | Yang | Warm Breeze under Dark Sky | Warm and comfort wind breezes in spring, with bright sunshine and full of vigor | Supplementing liver Qi, expelling cold and alleviating depression | Dizziness, vertigo, dreaminess, and numbness of limbs |
Yin | Green Leaves and Wondering Cloud | Spring wind brings cool and cold, green leaves | Cooling liver fire, calming hyperactive liver Yang | Vertigo, headache, restlessness, red face and eyes, insomnia, and dreaminess | |
Zhi Fire Heart Small Intestines | Yang | Green and Fragrant Lotus under Summer Sunshine | Heat in summer, fragrance of lotus | Supplementing the heart Yang, nourishing the heart and calming Shen | Palpitation, upset, chest fullness and short of breath, insomnia and dreaminess |
Yin | Rainbow after Raining | Vivid and clear rainbow after rainbow | Clearing heart fire, and calming Shen | Restlessness and fever, red face and thirst | |
Yu Water Kidney Urinary Bladder | Yang | Sunshine in Winter | Warm sun at noon in winter, | Warming and supplementing kidney Yang, consolidating essence and strengthening Qi | Lower back pain and weakness of knees, afraid of cold, cold extremities, spermatorrhea, impotence, cold in uterus, morbid leukorrhea |
Yin | Snowing and Frozen Winter | Cold and clean ice, pure earth | Clear heart fire, nourishing the kidneys and consolidating will | Restlessness, vertigo, tinnitus, spermatorrhea, amenorrhea. |