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The 12 pages that link to Five Phases, each with the reason it gives.

• Traditional Chinese medicineRelated: The phases organize traditional associations among organs, symptoms, seasons, and treatments.

• QiRelated: The phases classify qi’s transformations and relations in cosmology and medicine.

• Feng shuiRelated: Some feng shui methods use phase correspondences to evaluate directions and arrangements.

• Dong ZhongshuRelated: He used phase correspondences to connect dynastic rule with patterns in nature.

• Chinese cosmologyRelated: The phases connect cosmic processes with seasons, directions, bodies, and political order.

• Chinese zodiacRelated: Each phase is paired with stems in the full cycle, producing five two-year runs for every animal.

• Chinese alchemyRelated: Alchemy drew on phase correspondences to interpret materials and cycles of transformation.

• Huangdi NeijingCompared with: This term clarifies why the classic’s wood, fire, earth, metal, and water are relational processes.

• Zhou DunyiRelated: Zhou uses their sequence to connect cosmic differentiation with the formation of things.

• Zou YanRelated: This system supplied the materials for Zou Yan’s accounts of change and succession.

• NeidanRelated: Neidan uses phase correspondences to map processes within the body and cosmos.

• Tui naRelated: It supplies a traditional interpretive framework sometimes used alongside tui na diagnosis.