Example

For example, the gall bladder is responsible for what is exact and just and the determinations and decisions stem from that whereas the liver holds the office of general assessing circumstances and conceptions of plans. If these officials are poorly functioning the effect may be indecisiveness, lack of initiative, anger, and frustration or hypochondriasis. The ability to make appropriate plans is affected and disturbance in the blueprint for functioning on the cellular level such as diabetes on a global level such as drug addiction might be the outcome. According to the Nei Ching the wood element provides the ability to discover the tao, the right way. This allows the person to have healthy decision-making, planning, and a balance in well-coordinated lifestyle. The wood element is associated with new ideas, the spring, the new growth, and the sense of renewal that goes with that season. The emotion associated with wood is anger, which is generated by the frustration of being blocked in setting out on these new paths.

The Nei Ching states of wood, "colors they create that bring color, and they give to the human voice the ability to form a shouting sound, in times of excitement they grant the capacity for control, and of the emotions they create anger."