How emotions affect the health of various organs?
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, emotional disorders directly damage the internal organs. It is called "internal injury and seven emotions". Under normal circumstances, it is normal for people to have various emotions. When a certain emotion lasts for too long, it will affect your health.
Excitement: Affect the heart
When you are overly excited and excited, your heartbeat will increase sharply, your blood pressure will rise sharply, and your oxygen consumption will double, which may induce sudden death. If you are too excited and have symptoms of dizziness and rapid heartbeat, you need to find a way to calm down. You can close your eyes and take a few big, deep breaths.
Anger: Affect the liver
People who are irritable are prone to liver qi deficiency, which can cause hypertension, coronary heart disease and gastric ulcer.
Grief: Affect the lungs and large intestine
Grief can block the movement of qi in your body, it can damage the lungs. When a person has strong feeling of sadness, he will dissipate lung qi, which may lead to shortness of breath, dry cough, coughing up blood.
Worrying: Affect the stomach and spleen
Long-term worrying can result in stagnation of qi, disharmony in spleen and stomach, which will lead to loss of appetite and fatigue.
Stress: Affect the endocrine system
People who have a hard time to relax are prone to mental strain and emotional changes reflected to the nervous system, which may cause endocrine disorders.
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