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1 Unpublished paper, D Roger, Y Birks, A Forbes, B Najarian: Toxic and Non-toxic Personalities — Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Illness; University of York, 1998. This paper was presented at the 9th European Conference on Personality at the University of Surrey in July 1998.

2 If you have any doubts about repetitive negative emotions causing illness, then you can consult the growing base of Western research which supports the ancient Chinese view. Some of this is easily available in Goleman, Daniel, 1995: Emotional Intelligence; Bloomsbury Publishing, London. This book was on the bestseller list in 1997. In chapter 11, Goleman gives many examples of the research done in the West on the connection between emotional disturbance and illness.

3 See Hicks, Angela: The Five Laws for Healthy Living; Thorsons, 1998, for a practical discussion of the Chinese wisdom on how to develop a healthy lifestyle. The book in your hands concentrates on the internal causes of disease whilst The Five Laws for Healthy Living also gives an account of external and miscellaneous (lifestyle) causes of disease.

4 We know that everyone has an imbalance in one of the Five Elements from early on in their lives. Discussion continues as to the nature/nurture issue, that is, how much we are born with and how much arises during our early childhood. The authors believe we are born with the imbalance.

5 You can read more about the ancient Chinese use of Five Element theory in Needham, Joseph: The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China 1, pages 142—57.

6 This book first appeared around 200 BC. It appears to be written by more than one author and it has been available as a source of inspiration continuously since publication. It does give solutions to medical problems, but it is much more a discussion of the fundamental questions of medicine. There are many different translations and it has different titles in English, e.g. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine. See bibliography for these.

7 See for example, Koo, Linda Chih-ling, 1982: Nourishment of Life; pp 127–31.

8 See Eckman, Peter, 1996: In the Footsteps of the Yellow Emperor; pp 208–9.

9 JR Worsley called the primary imbalance of a person the ‘Causative Factor’. This is the name which is most often used by practitioners who use this Five Element style of acupuncture treatment and it suggests that the constitutional weakness of the organs has an important effect on both our health and our emotional expression.