Emotions Flashcards
7 internal emotional causes of disease?
- Anger
- Joy
- Sadness
- Worry
- Pensiveness
- Fear
- Shock
Emotions are mental stimuli that influence our affective life but under normal circumstances, pathological or not?
Not
Emotions become a cause of disease when?
wdo not ‘possess them’ but they ‘possess’ us
they are either long lasting or very intense
Emotional stress is an internal cause of disease that?
injures the Internal Organs directly
How does emotional strain affect the internal organs?
Cause disharmony
A disharmony of the Internal Organs may cause?
emotional imbalance
Seven emotions of the internal organs
- 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
Anger
Liver
Joy
Heart
Sadness
Lungs and heart
Worry
Lungs and spleen
Pensiveness
Spleen
Fear
Kidneys
Shock
Heart
Anger affect/direction
Makes qi rise
Joy affect/direction
Slows qi down
Sadness affect/direction
dissolves qi
Worry affect/direction
Knots qi
Pensiveness affect/direction
Knots qi
Fear affect/direction
Makes qi descend
Shock affect/direction
Scatters qi
5 Effects of emotional stress
Qi stagnation
* Blood stasis
* Heat
* Fire
* Phlegm
Symptoms of anger
Symptoms: headache, dizziness, tinnitus, red face, stiff neck
If anger is repressed it may cause?
Liver qi stagnatio, liver yang rising, liver fire
Anger may also affect which organs?
Stomach, Intestines, Heart
Joy symptoms
palpitations, over excitability, insomnia, restlessness, red tip to the tongue
Sudden joy is akin to
to shock
Sadness symptoms
breathlessness, tiredness, a feeling of discomfort in the chest, depression or crying
In some cases sadness depletes?
Liver blood (only in women)
Symptoms of worry in the lungs?
Symptoms (Lungs): uncomfortable feeling of the chest, slight breathlessness, tensing of the
shoulders, a dry cough, weak voice, sighing, pale complexion
Symptoms of worry in the spleen?
- Symptoms (Spleen): poor appetite, slight epigastric discomfort, abdominal distension,
tiredness, pale complexion
Symptoms of pensiveness
Symptoms: poor appetite, slight epigastric discomfort, abdominal distension, tiredness, pale
complexion
Fear symptoms
Symptoms: nocturnal enuresis, incontinence of urine and diarrhea
Symptoms if fear makes qi rise
- In some cases, it may make Qi rise:, with palpitations, insomnia, night sweating, dry mouth and
a malar flush
Shock symptoms
palpitations, breathlessness, insomnia. Moving pulse
