Posted - 4/6/2004 17:12:50 Let us share with you some of the concept of emotons in Chinese medicine.In fact, Traditional Chinese Medicine (tcm) also gives high emphasis on the emotional health. Emotions are considered as the internal cause of diseases. Because of its holistic view, TCM believes that emotional problems are not isolated health problems in our mind. They are also associated with all other organs, meridians and the state of harmony in the whole body. Therefore treatment will be aimed on the resuming the balance of the whole body. Acupuncture is one of the treatment methods for resuming the disharmony of the meridian and organs in the body. Herbal decoctions are also used to treat the emotional problems. For example, it is said in the literatue that anger (liver/wood emotion) will cause unhealthy rise of qi, excessive joy will cause certain slowness(unhurried speed) of qi, Excessive pensiveness will cause unhealthy "knotted" stagnation of qi, excessive grief will cause the "vanishing" of qi, fear will cause the unhealthy descending of qi, fright will cause disorder of qi movement in the body.
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