Research Of Emotional Etiological Factors In The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic

Emotion Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine mainly comes from traditional Chinese culture,especially from Confucianism.As far as Qin and Han Dynasties, there were many technical terms about emotion,and the ancient people showed us the relationship between emotion and aspiration.For example,man,as a microcosm, is connected with the macrocosm;different time and the changes of surroundings caused by different meteorological states could affect the emotion of human beings; also the different social conditions could decide the character and extent of emotional changes.Based on these,The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic explained the relationship among emotion and aspiration,five directions,and five Zang-viscera.According to The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic,emotion and aspiration were harmful to human's health,meanwhile,emotion and aspiration were hard to control,and easy to become the etiological factor,so people should control their feelings,no matter it was happiness or anger,to get longevity.These theories became the foundation of emotional etiology in Traditional Chinese Medicine.Based on the knowledge of emotion before Qin and Han Dynasties,and tested by the clinical practice,a systematic theory about emotion emerged.This theory talked mainly about the emotional etiology,also about the start of illness, differentiation of symptoms and signs,treatment and health cultivation.And according to this theory,emotion became the etiological factor through mainly 4 ways.According to the pathopoiesis of emotional factors,the etiopathogenisis of emotion can be divided into general etiopathogenisis and directional etiopathogenisis. The general etiopathogenisis emphasizes on the health-care function of regulating emotion.The directional etiopathogenisis also can be divided into single etiopathogenisis and complex etiopathogenisis.There are two main characters of the pathopoiesis and transmission of emotional factors,and both of them can do great harm to health. Anger is one of the strongest emotional factor,and The Yellow Emperor' s Internal Classic has deep record about it.According to The Yellow Emperor' s Internal Classic,anger can lead to the pathological changes of appearance on face, the activity and the function of viscera,however,the superinverse of Qi is the basic pathogenesis of the diseases caused by anger.Anger is Yang evil,there is a law about the damage caused by emotion: emotion dose harm to Qi,then Qi does harm to viscera,and then the viscera get ill. Liver is corresponded to anger,thus anger always does harm to liver.In the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine,kidney is the mother of liver,so we can treat the kidney to cure the liver disease caused by anger.Single anger factor can lead to a series of diseases such as raged syncope, haematemesis,and so on.Adverse rising of Qi can lead to adverse rising of blood, and the abnormal function of spleen and stomach.Besides these,anger factor can act with many pathological factors such as bad surroundings and six evil.Anger is not only the pathological factor but also the symptom.The main reason which leads to anger is the excess of liver blood and liver Qi,and so on.Analyzing the reason of anger,we can get the pathogenesis and therapeutical principle.At the end of this article,according to The Yellow Emperor' s Internal Classic, anger is defined as following:Anger is based on the morphologic change of liver and gallbladder,and leads to the bluish complexion,thin and weak,few words.It's characterized by the superinverse of Qi.In the clinic,the main symptoms are stagnation of liver and gall bladder,excess of Qi,abnormal movement of yin and yang,Qi and blood.And anger does great harm to Yin and Qi,liver and kidney.The theory about anger in The Yellow Emperor' s Internal Classic is very believable;all of the records are very precious.The author hopes all of us can learn much from it.