Controlling and Weakening cycles.
Five phases of Qi â fire, earth, metal, water and wood â interact with
each other in three different ways. There are the following relationships: the enhancing cycle, the controlling cycle
and the weakening cycle.
Enhancing cycle â one element enhances the other, giving power to it.
The Controlling cycle â one element suppresses the other, preventing it from
establishing its power.
The Weakening cycle â one element is weakened due to giving its power to enother element.
The Enhancing Cycle
this type of relationship is called productive cycle. This is not exactly so.
Actually one type of Qi doesnât produce another type.
Water feeds grain but it doesnât produce it. Water gives it the power to grow.
So this cycle is classified as the enhancing cycle.
Water enhances wood, Wood enhances Fire, Fire enhances Earth, Earth enhances
Metal and Metal enhances Water.
Â Weakening cycle