"Regimen: Yi-Ching Music for Health" by Shanghai Traditional Orchestra - 1991

Do not let the prosaic album title fool you; contained within is 50 minutes of truly lovely Chinese orchestral music, designed to harmonize the body, emotions and mind. For millennia the Chinese have been aware of the healing properties of music but in recent years research has thrown new light on the relationship between music and the medical and philosophical model of the Five Element system. Regimen is the outcome of this study, a collaboration between medical researchers and leading Chinese composers. Two long tracks offer sweeping melodies performed by The Shanghai Racial Music Troupe, featuring shimmering strings, soaring flute, piping reeds, massed lutes, tuned bells and assorted percussion. Designed to balance all five of the elements within the listener, Regimen is an uplifting album that does indeed have a calming and inspiring effect. Besides Regimen, there are additionally five other titles in the series, each addressing one of the five elements. The entire series may also be purchased in a box set. ~ Backroads Music/Heartbeats, All Music Guide
The theory of the Five Elements, also known as the Five Evolutional Phases, an arrangement of all aspects of the phenomenological world into categories of Fire, Water, Wood, Earth and Metal, first developed in the Zhou.
The earliest Chinese theories of health/illness and medical treatment, astrology and divination techniques, and theories of musical tonality and composition were all unified through a mutual basis on Five Element & Yin Yang theory.
The Book of Changes cycle of Elemental Music was developed during the 1980's in the Mainland China by researchers in traditional Chinese medicine in collaboration with leading Chinese music composers.
Originally designed to permit more effective treatment of illness, this music's capacity to counter Elemental imbalance on biological, psychic, and emotional levels makes it unique among healing and therapeutic music.
Regimen music is composed of the five primary elements principle-a dynamic balance of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. It is a music suitable for a daily health maintenance regimen.