Seven emotions refer to seven kinds of emotional activities: joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and surprise. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that they are the physiological response of the human body to the external environment, and they will not cause diseases directly under normal circumstances. However, if the emotional activity is intense and excessive, beyond the limits that the human body can bear, and it can't be calm for a long time, it will inevitably affect the function of viscera and qi and blood, leading to the disorder of qi and blood in the whole body. For example, Su Wen's Shi Tong said: "Anger leads to qi stagnation, joy leads to qi stagnation, sadness leads to qi stagnation, fear leads to qi depression, shock leads to qi disorder, and thinking leads to qi stagnation". Another example is "Anger hurts the liver, happiness hurts, thinking hurts the spleen, sadness hurts the lungs, and fear hurts the kidney", all of which show that the excessive extremes of the seven emotions have certain damage to the qi, blood and viscera of the human body.

The "happiness" in the seven emotions is a manifestation of a happy mood. As the saying goes, "people are refreshed when they are happy", and happy things can make people refreshed. However, excessive happiness will hurt the "heart". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the heart governs the gods" and the heart is the center of emotional thinking activities. Abnormal "happiness" can lead to anxiety, even incoherent and abnormal behavior. For example, the story of "Jin Fan won the bid" in "The Scholars" tells that he was frustrated for decades and won the bid once. He was so happy that he pretended to be crazy, crazy and couldn't understand people. This is the so-called "infinite joy hurts the soul, the soul hurts madness, and madness does not exist". In addition, excessive joy can lead to rapid heartbeat and dizziness, and some patients with coronary heart disease can also induce angina pectoris or myocardial infarction due to excessive excitement. So the joy should be moderate. Happiness is pleasant, pleasant, and the camp is comfortable, but excessive will lead to the opposite.

"Anger" refers to the phenomenon that people will get angry once they encounter unreasonable things or can't do them. Chinese medicine believes that liver qi should be relaxed, liver should be soft, blood should be harmonious and liver should be depressed. When people are angry, they destroy the normal and comfortable psychological environment, and when the liver is out of reach, the liver qi will be rebellious. Therefore, when people are angry, they often feel hypochondriac pain or chest discomfort; Or don't want to eat, abdominal pain; There are even critical diseases such as vomiting blood. In Chinese medicine, it is called "excess of liver-qi can attack spleen and soil". Modern medicine also believes that people who are extremely nervous will cause gastrointestinal dysfunction or form peptic ulcer; There is also a sudden death caused by coronary heart disease caused by elevated blood pressure. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhou Yu was so angry that he vomited blood and died. Such an example occasionally happens in daily life. Therefore, from the health point of view, the best way is to give up gas as much as possible, because it is good for both people and themselves.

"Worry" refers to sadness and depression. It is manifested as worrying, frowning, sighing and depressed all day. "Soul fulcrum. This God says: "Those who are worried can't do it because of qi resistance." If you worry too much, it will not only damage your lungs, but also affect your temper and appetite. The proverb says, "If you worry, you will get old." . Legend has it that when Wu Zixu visited Wen Zhaoguan, his hair and beard all fell out overnight, which was caused by something in his heart and excessive sadness.

"Thinking" means focusing on the problem. Thinking is completely dominated by people's subjective will. If you think too much, your spirit will be affected and your thinking will be more disordered. Insomnia, dreaminess, neurasthenia and other diseases are mostly related to overthinking. Chinese medicine believes that thinking too much will hurt the spleen, which will lead to poor eating and sleep. After a long time, all diseases will follow. Therefore, if you can't understand something in society or life, you'd better not "understand" it, because the more you "understand" it, the worse it will be, and the dissatisfaction in your heart may lead to "gas knot".

"Sadness" is a modality caused by sadness and pain. It is characterized by pale face, lack of air and occasional touch, that is, tears or sadness. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that worry is the further development of worry, and both of them damage the lung (referring to lung qi), so there is a saying that "excessive worry hurts the lung, and lung injury relieves anger". This shows that too much sadness will hurt the internal organs. Therefore, once something unfortunate happens at home, you must feel sorry for your loss and take care of yourself.

"Fear" refers to the fear and timidity caused by extreme mental stress. "Surprise" is a sudden encounter with something extraordinary, which leads to sudden mental tension. Such as sudden danger, sudden danger, witnessing foreign objects, hearing loud noises, etc. , can cause fright. Surprise is different from fear. The surprise is that you don't know, and you are scared. I'm scared. I know and I'm scared. People who are afraid for no reason are mostly deficient in kidney qi and qi and blood; People who are stunned and at a loss by sudden fright are mostly helpless and unable to return to God because of inner disorder and the damage of painstaking efforts. Therefore, it is necessary to tonify the kidney to treat fear and soothe the nerves to treat shock.

In short, if people want to keep their emotional activities relatively calm, they should pay attention to ideological cultivation and psychological adjustment at ordinary times, look at the changes of things around them objectively, and keep their mental outlook in an optimistic, happy, quiet and peaceful state, which is conducive to health preservation.