The Five Elements and the roots of Acupuncture...Once upon a time, when tigers smoked pipes and the sky still held its breath, the world began in silence. Out of formless chaos, like dry leaves swept by a cosmic broom, a stone coalesced — heavy, still, and suspended in the void. From this ancient chaos, the great unfolding began: a divine entanglement unraveled into three. One end reached upward to form the Heavens, while the other descended, sacred inch by sacred inch, to be