Five Elements — interactive reference
Select correspondence categories to add concentric rings to the wheel. Each element occupies one fifth of the circle.
Five-elements wheel
The inner sectors show the elements; selected categories form rings from inside to outside.
Hover or focus an element sector to highlight its links for the selected relationships.
Full correspondences
All categories from Table 1.5 are listed below; blue side markers indicate categories currently shown as rings.
Source: Essentials of Chinese Medicine, Volume 1, Table 1.5 (p. 23) and Fig. 1.4 (p. 24). The relationship cycles summarize sections 1.2.iii and 1.2.iv (pp. 25–27); over-restraint and counter-restraint are detailed in section 1.2.iv.