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Internal Causes of Disease
By peace | August 14, 2007
Seven Emotions as Internal Causes of Disease
Emotions and life expectancy are connected. When you are depressed, various symptoms may appear, such as poor memory, loss of appetite, and low energy. In addition, depression can also speed up the aging process. An example of how emotion can influence physiological activities can be seen in the nursing mother: when a nursing mother is irritable during breast-feeding, milk secretion decreases or stops. In addition, the mortality rate among cancer patients who are constantly in great emotional stress is much higher than for other cancer patients.
The seven basic emotions that can cause disease are joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock. Each of these emotions has an impact on a specific organ. However, it is only when these emotions exceed a normal range or run out of control that they begin to cause disease. Excessive joy, excessive anger, excessive worry, concentrated thought, excessive sadness, persistent fear, and sudden shock will make themselves felt by causing diseases.
Excessive anger is harmful to the liver, being overjoyed is harmful to the heart, concentrated thought is harmful to the spleen, too much worry and sadness are harmful to the lungs, and persistent fear and sudden shock are harmful to the kidneys. When you are worried about something, you most likely begin to lose your appetite or suffer indigestion.
In Western medicine and psychology, a dichotomy exists between body and mind, but this dichotomy does not exist in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Each internal organ is responsible for a specific emotion; conversely, each emotion acts on a specific internal organ. Thus, the heart gives rise to joy, the liver gives rise to anger, the lungs give rise to worry and sadness, the spleen gives rise to thought, the kidneys give rise to fear and shock. Conversely, joy mirrors and affects the state of heart, anger mirrors and affects the state of the liver, worry and sadness mirror and affect the state of the lungs, thought mirrors and affects the state of the spleen, and fear and shock mirror and affect the state of the kidneys.
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