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• Yin repels Yin and Yang repels Yang. The greater the similarity the greater the repulsion.

• Yin gradually changes the into Yang and vice versa. Spring into summer, summer into autumn, autumn into winter and winter into spring... At the extremes of Yin or Yang, there is great instability and the change from one opposite to the other is rapid and inharmonious. The 'midlife crisis' suffered by males in our culture is an example of this.

• Normal physiological conditions (i.e. Homoeostasis) require the avoidance of extremes of Yin and Yang. The body can only resist within a narrow range of temperature, atmospheric pressure, oxygen content of the air, etc. One can develop tolerance to extremes only by gradually introducing them to the body, but there is still definite limitations to the body's tolerance to extreme factors (e.g. heat, cold, deprivation, etc.).

• Each Yang factor can be further subdivided into a pair of Yin-Yang factors ad infinitum. Each Yin factor may also be further subdivided in the same way. Life forms can be divided into simple and complex; complex life can be divided into warm- or cold-blooded; warm-blooded into evolved and less evolved (in terms of adaptability and capacity for learned behavior as opposed to instinct); of the more highly evolved species, mankind can be separated out due to the potential for an advanced civilization or culture.

• Nothing should be rejected. There are no 'bad' things. Everything has some usefulness, depending on the appropriate conditions (i.e. time, place, dosage, type of illness etc.). Any substance may be used as a medicine, depending on the dosage (any substance may be regarded as food, medicine, or poison, at the appropriate dosage).

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