Table 2.

Meanings of “yin yang” within the medical context (adapted with permission from Greten, H. (2008). Copyright 2008 Heidelberg School of Chinese Medicine [10]).

“Yin”	“Yang”
Less vivid, less “qi” (depletion)	More vivid, more “qi” (repletion)
Colder, “algor”	Warmer, “calor”
Inside, interior, “intima”	Outside, exterior, “extima”
Structure	Function