Seven Emotions Flashcards
This emotion makes qi rise up/ascend. It is related to the LV/GB/Wood element.
Anger
This emotion makes qi decline/descend. It is related to the Kidney/Bladder/Water element.
Fear
This emotion makes qi slow down/relax. It is related to the Heart/Fire element.
Joy
This emotion makes qi stagnate or knot up. It is related to the Stomach/Spleen/Earth element.
Worry/pensiveness
This emotion consumes or dissolves qi. It’s related to the Lung/Large Intestine/Metal element.
Sadness
This emotion scatters the qi. It’s related to the Kidney and Heart axis.
Shock
This yang climate is referred to the “beginning of 100 diseases.
- Upward/outward dispersion.
- Rapid change/onset
- Constant MOVEMENT
- Symptoms can arise in the skin, joints and channels.
Wind
This yang climate is associated with the summer season.
- Qi movement is generally in an upward direction
- Lots of heat consumes yin fluids
- Stirs up wind and disturbance of blood
- Symptoms include: aversion to heat, high fever, sweating, mental confusion, thirst, overflowing-rapid pulse, red tongue with yellow coating.
Fire Blazing
This climate is associated with the summer season.
- It can present with dampness symptoms.
- Symptoms include: aversion to cold, fever, sweating, headache, dark urine, thirst, floating rapid pulse.
Summer Heat
This yin climate is associated with the late summer season.
- Causes feelings of heaviness and turbidity.
- Makes fluids thicker and causes stagnation.
- It impairs the yang and obstructs qi circulation.
- Symptoms can show up in the muscles, joints and almost any area of the body (especially where body fluids are involved).
Dampness
This yang climate is associated with the autumn season.
- It consumes body fluids.
- Impairs the function of the lung organ.
- Symptoms can include dry cough, aversion to cold, fever, dry mouth and nose.
Dryness
This yin climate is associated with the winter season.
- It consumes yang qi.
- Causes contraction and stagnation.
- Symptoms can appear in almost any part of the body including upsetting the digestion and uterus.
Cold
