Emotions

Question 1

7 internal emotional causes of disease?

Answer 1

• Anger
• Joy
• Sadness
• Worry
• Pensiveness
• Fear
• Shock

Question 2

Emotions are mental stimuli that influence our affective life but under normal circumstances, pathological or not?

Answer 2

Not

Question 3

Emotions become a cause of disease when?

Answer 3

wdo not ‘possess them’ but they ‘possess’ us

they are either long lasting or very intense

Question 4

Emotional stress is an internal cause of disease that?

Answer 4

injures the Internal Organs directly

Question 5

How does emotional strain affect the internal organs?

Answer 5

Cause disharmony

Question 6

A disharmony of the Internal Organs may cause?

Answer 6

emotional imbalance

Question 7

Seven emotions of the internal organs

Answer 7

• Anger affects the Liver
• Joy affects the Heart
• Sadness affects the Lungs and Heart
• Worry affects the Lungs and Spleen
• Pensiveness affects the Spleen
• Fear affects the Kidneys
• Shock affects the Heart

Question 8

Anger

Answer 8

Liver

Question 9

Joy

Answer 9

Heart

Question 10

Sadness

Answer 10

Lungs and heart

Question 11

Worry

Answer 11

Lungs and spleen

Question 12

Pensiveness

Answer 12

Spleen

Question 13

Fear

Answer 13

Kidneys

Question 14

Shock

Answer 14

Heart

Question 15

Anger affect/direction

Answer 15

Makes qi rise

Question 16

Joy affect/direction

Answer 16

Slows qi down

Question 17

Sadness affect/direction

Answer 17

dissolves qi

Question 18

Worry affect/direction

Answer 18

Knots qi

Question 19

Pensiveness affect/direction

Answer 19

Knots qi

Question 20

Fear affect/direction

Answer 20

Makes qi descend

Question 21

Shock affect/direction

Answer 21

Scatters qi

Question 22

5 Effects of emotional stress

Answer 22

Qi stagnation
* Blood stasis
* Heat
* Fire
* Phlegm

Question 23

Symptoms of anger

Answer 23

Symptoms: headache, dizziness, tinnitus, red face, stiff neck

Question 24

If anger is repressed it may cause?

Answer 24

Liver qi stagnatio, liver yang rising, liver fire

Question 25

Anger may also affect which organs?

Answer 25

Stomach, Intestines, Heart

Question 26

Joy symptoms

Answer 26

palpitations, over excitability, insomnia, restlessness, red tip to the tongue

Question 27

Sudden joy is akin to

Answer 27

to shock

Question 28

Sadness symptoms

Answer 28

breathlessness, tiredness, a feeling of discomfort in the chest, depression or crying

Question 29

In some cases sadness depletes?

Answer 29

Liver blood (only in women)

Question 30

Symptoms of worry in the lungs?

Answer 30

Symptoms (Lungs): uncomfortable feeling of the chest, slight breathlessness, tensing of the
shoulders, a dry cough, weak voice, sighing, pale complexion

Question 31

Symptoms of worry in the spleen?

Answer 31

• Symptoms (Spleen): poor appetite, slight epigastric discomfort, abdominal distension,
  tiredness, pale complexion

Question 32

Symptoms of pensiveness

Answer 32

Symptoms: poor appetite, slight epigastric discomfort, abdominal distension, tiredness, pale
complexion

Question 33

Fear symptoms

Answer 33

Symptoms: nocturnal enuresis, incontinence of urine and diarrhea

Question 34

Symptoms if fear makes qi rise

Answer 34

• In some cases, it may make Qi rise:, with palpitations, insomnia, night sweating, dry mouth and
  a malar flush

Question 35

Shock symptoms

Answer 35

palpitations, breathlessness, insomnia. Moving pulse