What is Seven Emotions?
Chinese medicine believes that people have emotional changes of joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and shock, also known as "seven emotions".
Excessive agitation of these seven emotions may lead to imbalance of yin and yang, lack of qi and blood and lead to various diseases, which should be properly grasped. If it is not properly mastered, such as great joy and great sorrow, excessive panic, etc., it will cause the imbalance of yin and yang, the lack of qi and blood, and this mental disorder will evolve into the body, resulting in various diseases.
What are the six desires?
" Lu's Spring and Autumn " first proposed the concept of the six desires: "Those who are so-called all-life are those who have all the six desires." , nose." It can be seen that the six desires generally refer to the physiological needs or desires of human beings.
People want to survive, fear death, and live a life that is full of flavor and sound, so the mouth needs to eat, the tongue needs to taste, the eyes need to see, the ears need to hear, and the nose needs to smell. .
Some people later summarized this as the six desires of "seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking".
The relationship between the seven emotions and the six desires and the five internal organs
1,Angry hurts the liver
Anger is a relatively common emotion, anger is angry, and it hurts the liver, causing depression, irritability, dizziness, , etc. It also induces high blood pressure , coronary heart disease, an important cause of gastric ulcer.
2, happy heart
hi can make blood circulate, muscles relax, and it is beneficial to recover from physical fatigue. But too much joy will damage the heart.
" Huainanzi · Yuan Dao Xun " said: "The great joy falls slowly". Yang damage will make the heart qi, and the heart qi will disperse the spirit and be extremely evil, resulting in palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, and senile dementia.In
"School of Foreign Studies", the story of Fan Jin's sudden madness due to the intersection of sorrow and joy in his old age is a typical case of joy and sorrow.
3、Thinking hurts the spleen
Traditional Chinese medicine believes: "Thinking leads to qi stagnation", due to excessive thinking in the brain, the nervous system is dysfunctional, the secretion of digestive juice is reduced, loss of appetite, lack of appetite, lack of appetite, haggard, shortness of breath, mental fatigue , depression, etc.
4, Sorrowful Lungs
Worry is an emotion that is closely related to the lungs. When a person is extremely sad, the lungs can be injured, resulting in dry cough, shortness of breath, hemoptysis, hoarseness and changes in breathing rate. The sentimental and melancholy Lin Daiyu in
"A Dream of Red Mansions" is a good proof.
5, fear of kidney damage
Fear can interfere with the nervous system, causing tinnitus, deafness, dizziness, impotence, and even death. The common people often say "scare people to death" is the truth. What is the principle of
Seven Emotions Healing Diseases?
The seven emotions cause disease and damage the internal organs, mainly affecting the qi movement of the viscera, causing the qi movement of the viscera to rise and fall abnormally, and the movement of qi and blood is disordered. Different modal stimuli have different effects on Qi.
Anger leads to anger, which means that excessive anger can cause liver qi to rush up and down, and blood to go against with qi and go up. Clinically, qi can be reversed, the face is red and the eyes are red, or hemates up blood, and even faints.
is happy and slow, including the relief of tension and laxity. Under normal circumstances, hi can relieve tension, make the camp and the guards smooth, and feel comfortable.
Sadness reduces Qi, which refers to excessive sadness, which can make the lungs depressed, depressed, and exhausted.
Fear is the result of depression, which means that excessive fear can make the kidney qi not solid, and the qi will be vented to the bottom, which can lead to incontinence of feces.
Frightened is turbulent, which means that you are suddenly startled, so that you have nothing to rely on, God has nowhere to go, no worries, and panic.
Thinking is qi stagnation, which refers to excessive thinking, which hurts the mind and damages the spleen, which can lead to stagnation of qi.
The Seven Emotions represent the understanding of the basic emotions of people in traditional Chinese medicine. In addition to the seven emotions, love and hate, pride and shyness, dignity and contempt are also the basic emotional manifestations of human beings.
