Seven emotions are people's different reflections on objective things. In the normal range of activities, they generally do not cause diseases. Only sudden intense or long-lasting emotional stimulation exceeds the normal range of human physiological activities, which leads to the imbalance of qi, yin and yang, qi and blood, and will lead to diseases. Therefore, the seven emotions, as the cause, refer to the emotional activities that are too intense, lasting or sudden, leading to the imbalance of yin and yang in the diseases of zang-fu organs, qi and blood.
A disease caused by seven emotions is called depression. In addition, due to some chronic diseases, the visceral function in the body is out of balance for a long time, which causes people's mental and emotional abnormalities, which is called depression due to illness. The seven emotions are also related to the tolerance and adjustment ability of the body itself.
Pathogenesis caused by seven emotions is different from that caused by six evils (wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire). ) mainly invades the human body from the nose, mouth or fur, and the seven emotions directly act on the related viscera and cause disease. Seven emotions can not only cause a variety of diseases, but also have an important impact on the development of diseases, and can promote the improvement and deterioration of diseases. Because seven emotions are one of the main pathogenic factors causing internal injuries, it is also called "seven emotions of internal injuries".
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The relationship between seven emotions and qi and blood of zang-fu organs
1. The relationship between seven emotions and zang-fu organs: the emotional activities of human body are closely related to zang-fu organs, and its basic laws are: the heart dominates joy, and joy leads to sadness; The liver governs anger, and anger hurts the liver excessively; Spleen dominates thinking, and excessive thinking hurts spleen; The lung governs sorrow, and too much sorrow will hurt the lung; The kidney governs fear, and too much fear will hurt the kidney. This shows that the pathological changes of zang-fu organs can have corresponding emotional reactions, and excessive emotional reactions will damage related zang-fu organs (this is dialectical). The theory that seven emotions are born in five internal organs and hurt in five internal organs has important guiding significance in diagnosis and treatment.
2. The relationship between seven emotions and qi and blood: Qi and blood are two basic substances that constitute the body and maintain human life activities. Qi has a warming effect on human viscera, while blood has a nourishing effect on human viscera. Qi and blood are the material basis of human mental and emotional activities, and emotional activities are closely related to Qi and blood. The changes of qi and blood in zang-fu organs will also affect the changes of emotions, so it is said that "blood deficiency leads to anger, and blood deficiency leads to fear." The physiological activity of zang-fu organs must be based on qi and blood, and emotional activity is the expression of physiological function of zang-fu, so the emotional activity of human body is closely related to qi and blood of human organs.
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Pathogenic characteristics of seven emotions
Traditional Chinese medicine studies the law of human life, not only about patients and diseases, but also different from western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine often puts people in two circles. The first circle is a natural circle. Huangdi Neijing said that "virtual evil steals wind and sometimes avoids it". For example, in spring, summer, autumn and winter, Chinese medicine often says that when the wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire are too late, it is called "six evils" or "six evils", that is, when man and nature cannot be coordinated.
The second circle is society. What is this circle about? It is about the relationship between people's happiness, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and shock and people's life and health. Chinese medicine has a saying in health preservation that "nothing is indifferent, and the true qi will follow." In other words, when you are in a very calm state, your qi and blood will run normally. This normal operation is an important function to maintain your life activities. On the contrary, when your mood changes abnormally, it will lead to your qi and blood disorder, which will lead to illness.
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The liver governs anger, but it is not good at losing temper.
Many lesbians are particularly angry. When do lesbians love to be angry? It was during her period. Why? Because lesbians are mainly blood, and the liver is congenital, when her menstruation comes, and in the middle of menstruation, because her blood is flowing downwards and floating on it, her blood is unbalanced at this time, and the excess gas is fire, so she loves to get angry at this time. Therefore, lesbians must pay attention to regulating their emotions before and after menstruation, not too angry, not too angry, and not too depressed. Excessive anger and depression are not in line with normal physiological conditions. After a long time, diseases will occur.
In the clinic, I often tell lesbians that if you quarrel with your husband, you must tell him that you will cry before you go. Don't be angry in the middle. When you come back, your husband will run out and fight again. Why? Because the liver governs anger. They quarrel when you are angry, and you are full of anger. Liver qi is very strong at this time. If he leaves at this time, your anger will stagnate in it and you can't vent it. If you can't vent it, it will get hot after a long time and you will continue to quarrel when you come back. If you cry, cry. What is crying? Just now we talked about the relationship between sadness and lung. When crying, the lung qi will flourish, which will calm the liver qi, because Chinese medicine says that the five elements corresponding to the lung and liver are Jin Mu, and they are mutually restrictive. When the lung is full, the liver will calm down. You can try if you don't believe me. When you are particularly depressed, you can find a lonely place to cry and feel comfortable immediately after crying.
We see many patients with liver diseases, especially those who lose their temper. Why? Because the liver governs anger, the liver meridian is already hot, so he is prone to get angry. So when you feel particularly annoyed and angry inexplicably, you need to find Chinese medicine to adjust it for you. This liver is not said by western medicine, and it is not that you have hepatitis, but that there is something wrong with your state. At this time, an adjustment process is needed. Because we know that there are many diseases that change from quantitative to qualitative. You can't find them when the quantity changes. You go to a western doctor for examination, and the western doctor says you are not ill. For example, some of us feel particularly uncomfortable when we are angry, and our heads are sore and swollen. You went to the hospital for examination, and the western doctor said that you were all right and all the indicators were normal. But you just don't feel well. If you take a little medicine to calm the liver and lower the adverse flow at this time, Chinese medicine will adjust it.
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The heart dominates happiness, and it is not appropriate to overdo it.
Heart dominates happiness, and happiness is happiness. As we all know, we say we are in high spirits, not in high spirits. We also see many elderly people, who are patients with bad hearts. Why are all the children back, and they are still so happy, just smiling and leaving? Because the joy dissipated, when he was too happy, his mood also dissipated. So being happy is a happy thing, but being too happy is not necessarily a good thing.
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The spleen governs thinking, and thinking hurts the spleen and stomach.
The spleen governs thinking, and "thinking" means thinking too much about people, that is to say, worrying too much about people will cause problems in the spleen and stomach. Comrades who often use their brains have poor spleen and stomach function. Why? Because we all know that we have to eat every day. After we finish eating, human qi and blood will go to the stomach to help you digest. If your blood does not go to the stomach at this time, but to the brain for a long time, then the function of the spleen and stomach will be affected for a long time.
For example, many drivers, especially long-distance drivers, have stomach problems. Why? Because of professional habits, as long as you sit in the driver's seat of the car, blood naturally rushes to your head. Over time, think about it, his blood always goes up, and what he eats can't be completely digested, so after a long time, diseases in his body come out, the most typical ones are gastric ulcer, gastroptosis and other diseases. Therefore, Chinese medicine says that the relationship between thinking and spleen and stomach is that anxiety hurts the spleen and thinking is stagnant, which is the truth.
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The lung governs sorrow, and the lung is excessively sad.
Lung governs sorrow. Everyone has seen A Dream of Red Mansions. Look at Lin Daiyu. She must have lung disease, otherwise she wouldn't cry endlessly. Often crying, often wanting to cry must be related to the lungs. I saw an old gentleman with lung cancer the other day. I treated him. He said, "Doctor, I don't know what happened. I really want to cry when I see you. " I said, "This is because your lungs have problems, because lungs are directly related to sad mood."
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Kidney governs fear, and fear leads to kidney qi dispersing.
Kidney governs fear, and fear is directly related to kidney. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, when Zhang Fei shouted at Dangyang Bridge, people around Cao Cao were scared to death. I think that man must be deficient in kidney qi. Fear leads to anger. There is a saying among ordinary people that he is frightened out of my wits, saying that people who are going to be shot are incontinent. Why can you be incontinent when you are afraid? Because the kidney wants to defecate, it controls defecation. When a person is excessively afraid, his kidney qi will be dispersed and the fixation function of the kidney will be poor. When the fixation function of the kidney is poor, urinary incontinence will occur.
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