Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) probably can answer why too much emotion can make you sick. When you have extreme emotions, you defecate or urinate more, you tend to lose your appetite in your briefing and pulse becomes more rapid. TCM sites seven emotions including grief, sadness, fright, anxiety, fear, anger and joy which in excess can wreak havoc to the body. TCM also shows us that each of these extreme emotions can affect a particular organ.
Examples of these are too much anger can affect the liver, excessive fright and fear can impair the kidneys, too much joy can hurt the heart, excessive belief injures the lungs, and excessive sadness/sympathy negatively affects the spleen. Interestingly, any problems in the major organs can also create extreme negative emotions associated with them.
Therefore, a week spleen can make a person sad or overly sympathetic, drug addicts and alcoholics do damage to their livers and they often come out as extremely angry people, and people who have bad kidneys exhibit nervousness and timidity frequently.
It is not surprising that there are people who suffer heart attacks and they hear they have won something or have received some great news. Some people develop lung cancer after experiencing a very sad event like the death of a beloved.
Too much anger can cause the liver chi to rise dramatically affecting the liver meridians. These meridians connect to other major organs and the skin. Thus,
The rise in liver chi can affect the tendons, nails, back, shoulders and eyes as well as cause headaches and migraines. If left untreated, the heart can be affected as well as the spleen and stomach. Liver dysfunction can also result in breast conditions such as swelling and lumps. And thus manifest the danger can do all these, so too can suppressed anger. It is not unhealthy to show anger in the proper time and manner. It is only when it gets too extreme or suppressed that it leads to many conditions mentioned above.
The liver is the most sensitive organ affected by extreme emotions. TCM believes that the liver governs the emotions and where they are balanced and supplied with chi energy. That role of the liver and the heart is so important in the governance and balance of the emotions; when these two organs are unable to control emotions they often suffer and become blocked.
Life can always subject us to experiences that cause us to feel extreme emotions. Loved ones die, we witness triumphs and success, we lose relationships and eventually gain some and we sometimes fear and become anxious at certain situations. We can control our emotions with the help of acupuncture West Orange which balances and normalize chi flow.