Elements, Health and Twelve Animal signs :

from Tibetan Astrology and Astronomy

Perspective.

By: Mrs. Tenzin Lhamo Shara. (Tsirampa)

Tibetan Astrologer
Men-Tsee-Khang. India.
 Elements and Health
1) Homage, meaning and types of Elements.

2) Elements and Human organs.

3) Elements and Animal signs.

4) Elements Parkhas (Eight Trigrams) and Mewas (Nine

numerical numbers).

5) Causes of Illness and Remedies.

 1. Homage to Manjushri, the God of Wisdom!!!

With a heart full of devotion, I pay homage

to you, Manjushri,
You, the eternally youthful.
The supreme Deity And spiritual Doctor.
You change into ambrosia
Bringing gifts and virtues
To all the sentient beings
You are the full moon.
Of omniscient wisdom,
And you have abandoned all the stains
Of samsaric defilement.
The Elemental Astrology deals with calculation
of the five elements, based on their mother,
son, friend and enemy relationship.
It involves:
1. Astrology of Natal Horoscope
2. Astrology of Marital Compatibility
3. Astrology of Obstacle Year
4. Astrology of Ill-health
5. Astrology of the Deceased
6. Miscellaneous Calculations
Astrology for Ill health or Medical Chart

This astrological reading is essentially done

for a person suffering from ill health.
As for the critical illnesses, the reading
reveals information about the duration of the
illness.
Illness is a threat to the patient’s life or not.
What treatment is best suited for the patient
Illnesses which are associated with evil spirits
 1) What is Element(Jung-wa)??

Jung- wa is a Tibetan word which literally can be

translated as Element in English. However, the word
element has many similarities as well as dissimilarities
from Tibetan and western perspective too.

From Elemental Astrology:- Something that arises from

nothing is known as Jung-wa (Element). མེད་པ་ལས་ནི་�ང་བ་ན།
འ�ང་བ་ཞེས་ནི་�་བ་ཡིན།
1) Types of Element (Jung-wa)

Yellow Blue Red Green White

Rigid and Wet and Heat and

mobility cutting
solidity fluidity burns
 Nature of the Five element

In the text of Jungtsi Men Ngak Dawe

Oser, it mentioned that the true nature of
these five elements can be hardly found
when fully investigated, because they no
longer exist as a physical matter due to
its extreme subtleness.
1) The Five Elements: Basis of everything…

In Tibetan Astrology, the name of the five elements are:

Wood (Shing) Fire (May) Earth (Sa) Metal (Chak) Water (Chu)
 2) Elements correspond to human organs etc.

Elements Human organs etc

Liver, stomach, hips, male genital, tendon, nerves
Wood

Heart, small intestine , upper body, heat།

Fire

Spleen, stomach, muscles

Earth

Lungs, colon, bones , acute pain

Metal

Kidneys, bladder, blood and pus

Water
 The Elements linked with internal
organs & Bodily constitutes of our body

INTERNAL
EXTERNAL
Five vital Six hollow organs
organs
Wood (shing) Liver Gall bladder
Fire (may) Heart Small intestine
Earth (sa) Spleen Stomach
Metal (chag) Lungs Large intestine
Water (chu) Kidneys Seminal vesicle &
urinary bladder
2)How to check the disturbance or balance of
Elements

Enemy FIRE

WATER
mother

WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER

WOOD
Son

METAL friend
2) How to understand disturbances and balance of element

Enhance Enhance Enhance

Enhance
envy and ignorant and Ego and
Attachment Enhance
cold bile wind
and phlegm hatred.
disorder disorder, disorder
disorder
�ག་དོག་བ�ེད་ fever. (stress)
2) Elements and human organs in
Pictorial form
 2) Five elements and human structure etc.
Elements Human structure and personalities etc

Wood Bluish, good height, slight bend, talkative, jealous, rough, liar
Reddish, sheep like face, average height, yellow hair, good eyebrows
and eyelash, Sharp mind and tongue, aggressive and competitive,
Fire
thirsty.

Yellowish and heavy body, short height, less talker and slow natured,
Earth
sloth like mover and dull, thick voice.

White color, slim figure, good hair, thick voiced, clear mind, short
Metal
temper and ego.

Black color, watery body (mouth and eyes), heavy body, oily skin,
Water irregular movement, high sexual inclination,
3) Five Elements and Animal Signs.
 Wood Ailments Fire Ailments
3)
Element
Mouse Naga spell Mouse Stomach, fever, heart.
Animal Earth lord(�ར་དང་ཤིང་)
Ox Ox Higher chance of phlegm
Signs Tiger Tumor, dropsy, weapons, Tiger Chronic, phlegm, naga
throat. spell, knife and infectious
and Rabbit Rabbit Cold, puss, depression

its Dragon Higher risk of bile disorder, Dragon Combined of wind and
Issues from spring water. bile disorder.
related Snake Less illness Snake Combined of wind and
bile disorder. Weapon
health Horse Wind and phlegm Horse Lungs, pains, fever.

ailments Sheep Due to incompatible eating Sheep Kidneys & chronic illness
Monkey Due to river, cliff Monkey Often wind and bile issues
Bird More illness specially in old Bird More illness, threat from
age, harm from spirit knife and weapons.
Dog Due to argument among Dog Fever, bile, fire
sibling
Element Earth Ailments Metal Ailments

Mouse Phlegm, stomach Mouse Bulky,

Animal
Ox Over stress Ox Less ailments
Signs
Tiger Tumor & dropsy Tiger Knife and weapons
and Rabbit Lungs and chronic illness Rabbit Acute pains, threat from
knife
its
Dragon Less illness Dragon Mental instabilities
related
Snake Cancer, throat, weapons Snake Sudden illness, throat ,
health
Horse Property and faith Horse Cold ailments like hips,
stomach issues. �ང་�ང་◌ྲ
ailments
Sheep Many illness, enmity stress Sheep eyes

Monkey Wind and phlegm Monkey Due to unhygienic

Bird Eyes and sensory issues, bile Bird Wind and fever.

Dog Wind and bile, nightmares Dog Threat from robber,

Pig Not mentioned Pig not mentioned

Element Water Ailments

Mouse Not mentioned

Animal
Ox Ailment from graveyard
Signs
Tiger Not mentioned
and
Rabbit Not mentioned, bad dream
its Dragon Not mentioned
related Snake Cold and wind combined

health Horse Heart, stress related

ailments Sheep Higher phlegm disorder

Monkey Due to sibling fights

Bird Wind and fever

Dog Often illness, threat from

weapon and bosses.
Pig Due to knife and accidents.
 4) Parkhas
4-a) Parkhas and its ailments
(Eight Trigrams) and its ailments
Name Symbols Element Ailments

Li Fire Head injury, sensory discomfort, accident, neck and

miscarriage

Khon Earth Half paralyze, rheumatism, swelling and skin issues,

indigestion, dullness both physically and mentally

Dha Metal Bone, injury, sudden health issues, pain on left body
parts, tumor

Khen Space Epilepsy, falls and dog bite, feet issues and infectious
disease
Kham Water Kidneys, cold disorder, diarrhea, tumor

Gyin Space Spleen, puss, right foot, spells and skin

Zing Wood Hearing and speaking problem, low appetite, nerves

Zon Wind Wind disorder and hypertension, headache, Neurological

and mental issues
 4) Parkhas
4-b) Mewas(Nine and its
numerical ailments its ailments
numbers)and
Mewa Color Element Ailments
Due to unhygienic and afflictions from Lha illness like
1 White Metal abscess and boils, eye, swelling, pain on chest

Sorrow, upper body parts, stomach pains due to

2 Black Water incompatible foods

3 Blue Water Dropsy, tumor, Chronic illness, liver and skin conditions

4 Green Wood Eyes, naga spell and rashes etc, limps diseases

Bile, joints problem, communicable disease and longer in

5 Yellow Earth recovery.

Breathing and teeth issues, chest pain, infectious disease

6 White Metal and sudden illness.

7 Red Fire Blood disorder, boils and ulcer, fever and miscarriage

8 White Metal Stress, anxiety and mental illness and very changeable and

Headache, lungs and heart issues, accident, low appetite

9 Red Fire and lost in physical radiant.
 5) Causes of illness
What is Illness ???

Cause and condition of illness from Tibetan Astro-science perspective.

attachments, hatred, ignorance, ego or pride, jealous,(Five

1) Ultimate causes
negative emotions)

A) general: incompatible food, less nutrients and very less

quantity, ceasing of natural calls and vice versa, less sleep at
night, excessive engagement in physical works, loudly
speaking, sorrow, distress and fears etc (Excessive stress), day
time sleeping and excessive sex and living in wet places etc.
2) Immediate
causes
B) specific: swimming in harsh and big rivers etc, visiting
graveyard and patient, huge gathering, risky activities like
riding untamed horse and doubtful boat, desolate valleys and
cross road and sleeping under tree at night etc. hiccup and
yawning etc can lead to dhon spells.
5) Some easy Remedies for five Elements in
term of dwelling place.
Element Remedies

When a person is under Wood or wind imbalance, then he or she should

Wood
refrain places like irregular shaped areas, isolated place, landslide and
(Wind)
avalanche areas, forest and windy area and spacious house.

Rough place(bad geomancy), red place and thorny shrubs, direct

Fire sunlight, cave (Earthly), red cliff and rocky peaks, humid and hot areas
and heat related things and places should be refrained
Yellowish and rectangular place or house, deep valleys and bad
Earth geomancy place, gloomy and dense place, bald meadows should be
refrained along bile disorder
Congested and dense place, staying or climbing of white peaked rock,
Metal on deserted ground and rains, staying near stupa, walls and cliff of white
colored should be refrained.
Leaving in dark and low place, near pond, drainage, water canal, house
Water with many doors and windows(ཁང་�ང་མང་།), moist and wet place, near river
side etc.
 5) Some easy Remedies for to enhance Five elements.

Element Remedies
Wood
Raising wind horse and turning wheel near monastery.
(Wind)

Fire Fire Pujas, offering incense and sur.

Making Sa-tsa (in the form of stupa or idols and making clay
Earth
stone)
To enhance mental condition by involving in spiritual
Metal
activities. Promote positive thoughts and views.
Chutor (water offering torma), Chu-tsa (making sa-tsa in
Water river), Vessel blessing and water purification (�མ་�་དང་�བས་�ས།)
 5) Some direct Remedies to enhance organs to
balance the five Elements

Saffron for Nutmeg for Heart Greater cardamom for

Liver Spleen

Saffron for Lungs Small Cardamom for Cloves for Life Veins
Kidneys
Remedies by Educating people to protect
environment

Educating people about the lives of Spirit

world and how they affect human lives.
 Mountains (Gyalpo)

 Rocks (Tsen)
 Ponds or river (Naga)
 Trees and Lakes (Nyen)
 Plain grounds (Sadak)
Thank You
 �ེ་བ�ད་འ�གས་�ལ་�ོར་རིན་ཆེན་�ན་འ�ས་�ར།290

�ེ་བ�ད་ �། �། བཙན། མ་མོ། བ�ད། གཉན། �ལ་པོ། �ལ་�࿌

ཐན་དང་
འ�་�ོག་གིས་ ཐག་རིང་རོ་ མི་གཙང་ ཟོར་དང་ཐན་ ཕན་དམར་ དཀོར་དང་ �ལ་བདག་
�་�ེན། གཞོབ་�ིས་
ལན། ཡིས་ལན། བ�ོལ། ལས་�ང་། ཕབ་པས་ལན། �ས། �ེ།(དམེ།)
ལན།

རིམས་ནད་ �ན་ནད་ �ོ་དང་

�ི་ཞིང་འཐིབ་ མཛ�་དང་�་བ་ �ེ་�ི་བཙ�ག་མ་ �ོ་�ར་ཡེ་ �ེས་ཤི་�ར་
ནད་རིགས། དལ་ཡམས་ གཟེར་�ག་ འབོགས་པའི་
པའི་ནད། འོང་། འོང་། འ�ོག་འོང་། �ོག་འོང་།
འོང་། ནད། ནད།
 �ོག་�ས་དབང་�ང་བཞིའི་གོ་དོན།
�ོག།
�ས། དང་པོ་�ས་�ལ་�ི་�ས་ལས་འ�ང་བ་ཆད་པས་ན། �ས་ཞེས་དང་ཆད་ཞེས་ཟེར། ཚངས་
�ི་�ད་ལས།

འ�ང་�ིས་ག�ང་ལས། འཚ�་འཆི་�ོག་ལ་ནད་�ན་�ས་ལ་བ�ག། ཅེས་ག�ངས་སོ།།

 Types of diseases

ནད་�ིས་�བས་�ི་དགོས་པའི་མི་�། དགོས་པའི་མི་�་འདི་�ར་བ�ེན། །ནད་གཡོག་མས་�་�་

�ེ་�། །ཕོ་ཉ་�ོགས་ལ་�ས་བ�ང་པ། །མ�ན་ག�མ་རང་དང་�་འཛ�མ་ན། །�ད་དང་�ེན་
�ིས་འཆི་མི་འ�ར།།
ནད་པ་�་ཕག། ནད་གཡོག་མས་ �་�ེལ་ལོ་ཅན་ནད་གཡོག་བཟང་། �་�ེ། �ག་ཡོས་�་�ེ།
�་�ལ་ཡར་མར་འ�ེལ་ལམ་�ེད་མཁན། �ས་བ�ང་ཕག་�ག་ཡོས་ག�མ།
�ས་�ལ་ནད་བ�ག།