祖国医学认为,木、火、土、金、水是造化世界万物的基本物质。对五行中木行的特点,古人概括为“木曰曲直”,并由树木的生长形态引伸为具有生长、升发、条达、舒畅等作用,将具有此类性质的事物归入木行。笔者认为,“木行”应包括很多物质,自然界植物中的花、草、树、木、藤及其根、苗、茎、叶、果、浆、汁等均属木性范畴。无论粮食、蔬菜、瓜果、中草药均为木性所化生,是人类赖以生存的物质基础。人体亦同样,机体内的小五行相对平衡,则生理趋于正常,一旦出现偏盛或偏衰则会产生病理现象。有人发现属木性的多种特质,如:热、寒、滑、涩、润、油、碱、 According to the motherland’s medicine, wood, fire, earth, gold, and water are the basic materials for the creation of all things in the world. The characteristics of the wooden elements in the five elements are summed up in the ancients as the “wooden poles and straight lines”, and they are extended by the growth patterns of trees to have the functions of growth, growth, stripping, and smoothness, and to classify things of this nature into the wood. The author believes that the “wood line” should include many substances, natural flowers, grass, trees, wood, vines and their roots, seedlings, stems, leaves, fruit, pulp, juice, etc. are all wood categories. Regardless of food, vegetables, fruits, and herbs, all of them are metamorphosed by wood, which is the material basis for human survival. The same is true for the human body. The small five elements in the body are relatively balanced, and the physiology tends to be normal. Once a partial or partial decline occurs, a pathological phenomenon will occur. Some people find woody properties such as: hot, cold, slippery, astringent, run, oil, alkali,