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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;124:1071-1073
© 2002 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

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Tai Ji: The law of inflammatory response

Song Wan, MD, PhD, Anthony P. C. Yim, MD

From the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.

Received for publication March 26, 2002. Accepted for publication April 25, 2002. Address for reprints: Song Wan, MD, PhD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China (E-mail: swan@cuhk.edu.hk).

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Both are one in origin and different only in name. In its unity it is called the secret. The secret's still deeper secret is the gateway through which all miracles emerge.—

        Dao De Jing (Part I)

No other work of Chinese literature has attracted as much attention as Lao Zi's Dao De Jing, which has been translated more often than any other book except the Bible. The term Tai Ji (the primal beginning), possibly first defined by Lao Zi at the end of the seventh century BC, played a major role in ancient Chinese philosophical thinking. The symbol of Tai Ji is the "Yin-Yang fish," so named because of the matching fish-shaped design (Figure 1), in which the white half of the circle containing a black dot stands for the "positive, masculine, warm" principle (Yang), and the complementary black half of the circle symbolizes the "negative, feminine, cold" principle (Yin). This figure has been used in endless representations of the coexisting positive and negative forces being within each other. As rationalized by Lao Zi, the 2 complementary principles of Yin and Yang . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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