Yin Yang Shiyi Mai Jiujing ailments associated with each vessel. It contains many textual parallels with the later medical text known as the "Lingshu", one extant version of the "Huangdi Neijing". Yin Yang Shiyi Mai Jiujing The Yin Yang Shiyi Mai Jiujing (), or Cauterization Canon of the Eleven Yin and Yang Vessels, is an ancient Chinese medical text that was excavated in 1973 from a Han-dynasty tomb in Mawangdui Han tombs site (Hunan province) that had been sealed in 168 BCE. It was handcopied in seal script on the same sheet of silk as the "Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments" and another text on cauterization
Dualistic cosmology able to transmute into each other. In the yin-yang symbol there is a dot of yin in yang and a dot of yang in yin. In Taoism, this symbolizes the inter-connectedness of the opposite forces as different aspects of Tao, the First Principle. Contrast is needed to create a distinguishable reality, without which we would experience nothingness. Therefore, the independent principles of yin and yang are actually dependent on one another for each other's distinguishable existence. The complementary dualistic concept seen in yin and yang represent the reciprocal interaction throughout nature, related to a feedback loop, where opposing forces do