Usually once we are all scared, we will say "scared to death". As everyone knows, there are really many people in this world who are scared to death because of excessive shock. For example, if they are suddenly frightened, they will have a heart attack, so they will be here for the rest of their lives. Just like this, wise ancients have long known the pathology of "happiness hurts the liver, anger hurts the spleen, fear hurts the kidney, and grieves the lungs". Therefore, in order to protect internal organs, live a long and healthy life, we must maintain a psychological balance and prevent excessive emotions.
Too happy and too sad: happiness is the heart, and the heart can express people's joy. As we all know, all the blood in the human body passes through the heart before it can be transported to all parts of the body, so the heart controls the blood. When you are happy, your blood runs faster, your face is rosy, you have the ability to keep out the cold, your mind is quick, your imagination is rich, your creativity is enhanced, and you can also play an extraordinary role in the exam, so it is easy for athletes to break records. When you are happy, you will be radiant, smiling and beaming, and lovers in love will become more beautiful or more handsome. Open your heart to your tongue, and you can speak eloquently when you are happy. At the same time, improve disease resistance and reduce the possibility of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
However, abnormal emotions of excessive joy can damage the heart, often leading to palpitation, palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess, forgetfulness, sweating, chest tightness, dizziness, headache, precordial pain, even delirium, laughter, sadness, paranoia, panic and other symptoms, resulting in exhaustion of essence, relaxation of mind, blood gas dispersion, and even uncertainty. Therefore, we find that people who are overjoyed in life will always have some mental and cardiovascular diseases, and even endanger people's lives, such as stroke or sudden death when they are overjoyed. This is what Chinese medicine calls "happiness".
Excessive anger hurts the liver: anger is the will of the liver, and the liver can express people's angry emotional activities. When people are angry, it is an emotional activity dominated by nervousness when their will and activities are frustrated or some goals cannot be achieved. Everything has two sides, and anger is no exception. Anger can stimulate personal fighting spirit and excitement; But many times, anger can only be a bad thing. Therefore, temporary and slight anger can vent depressed emotions, thus alleviating the nervous mental state, helping the human body to be discouraged and maintaining the balance of the internal environment.
Great anger and excessive anger are easy to damage the liver, which is manifested as liver depression, liver qi stagnation, liver blood stagnation, liver yang hyperactivity and other diseases. Symptoms such as chest pain, irritability, dizziness, blushing, etc. Some people will have symptoms such as moping, hyperventilation, warm breathing and nausea. When the human body is angry, it can cause saliva reduction, loss of appetite, gastrointestinal spasm, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, high blood pressure, increased number of red blood cells in the blood, increased blood viscosity and sympathetic nerve excitement. In the long run, people will suffer from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension. For patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it can lead to aggravation, stroke and myocardial infarction. And endanger their lives.
Liver governs ascending hair and qi reaches qi.
Stanford University in the United States made a famous experiment. Put a nasal tube in your nostril to let you breathe, and then put it in the snow for ten minutes. If the ice and snow don't change color, you are calm. If the snow turns white, it means you are guilty. If the snow turns purple, you are angry. Take out two milliliters of purple ice and snow, give it to the mice, and the mice will die in 1-2 minutes. And studied the composition of purple ice and snow. Therefore, anger can produce toxins that damage health and are highly pathogenic.
Thinking too much hurts the spleen: thinking is spleen ambition, and people's thinking and emotional activities are mainly expressed through cards. Thinking is a highly concentrated and thoughtful emotion. When people are thinking or anxious, they often have a tasteless diet and their appetite drops; Some women may suffer from less menstrual flow and menstrual disorder due to intense work and high concentration of thoughts, which is consistent with the function of spleen in controlling blood.
As an emotional activity of human body, thinking is normal and necessary. If a person doesn't think, he can't live a normal life based on society. However, when people think too much about a problem, or think too long, they are puzzled and still can't finish thinking, which is beyond the limit that the human body can adjust and bear, and they can't actively or passively transfer this bad emotional state in their ideological understanding, thinking becomes a pathogenic factor, causing harm to the body and causing various diseases. Before the college entrance examination every year, many students suffer from neurasthenia or "competition syndrome of college entrance examination" because they don't know how to study, study for too long and have a strong desire to learn. Many middle-aged intellectuals, deeply aware of the preciousness of time, studied hard and neglected physical exercise, and eventually died young, which is regrettable.
Excessive thinking will lead to dysfunction of the spleen, spleen stagnation, unhealthy transportation, nausea, poor diet, indigestion, abdominal distension and loose stool. Because spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, spleen injury is the source of deficiency of qi and blood biochemistry, which can lead to insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases.
Too sad for the lungs: worry (sadness) is lung ambition. After careful observation and analysis of sad patients, ancient doctors found that the lung was the main organ to express people's sadness and sadness. When people cry because of sadness, they will cry bitterly. This is mainly because the lungs begin to understand the nose, and the lungs govern the qi, so they are the general director of sound. Too much sadness and crying can lead to hoarseness and shortness of breath. Lung governs fur, so sorrow will increase facial wrinkles.
Generally speaking, worry, as an emotional activity, is the normal reaction of the human body to external things and will not cause harm to the body. On the contrary, temporary and slight sadness helps to re-recognize setbacks, help people have a correct understanding of their own thoughts, and is conducive to physical and mental health. It is not normal for a person to have no sadness and no concern for the country and people when his parents suddenly die, or when his country falls and is invaded by foreign countries.
However, when a person's grief lasts too long, or exceeds the limit that the human body can adjust and bear, and can't actively or passively transfer this bad emotion in thinking and understanding, anxiety becomes a pathogenic factor, which is harmful to the body, and in severe cases, it will die of excessive anxiety. For example, Lin Daiyu in A Dream of Red Mansions died of lung disease because of excessive grief for too long.
Fear hurts the kidney: fear hurts the kidney. Excessive panic will damage kidney qi, make kidney qi sink, incontinence, nocturnal emission, severe panic and even lead to death. This kind of example often appears in TV and movies. Once the bad guys usually do a lot of bad things, they will pee their pants when they meet the evil protagonist.
Fear is the ambition of the kidney, which is the main organ for people to express fear. Panic is an emergency response to a sudden external stimulus. Under normal circumstances, panic is beneficial to the body, which can arouse vigilance and avoid harm to the body. I remember that Japanese horror movies only became popular in Chinese mainland a few years ago. At that time, there was a rumor that someone in the cinema was scared to have a heart attack. Whether these rumors are true or not, it shows that excessive fear is very harmful to our health. In addition, as parents, it is necessary to prevent children from being excessively frightened. Children are more likely to get scared and get sick than adults, so we should avoid all kinds of scary factors, such as not watching gloomy movies and TV.