"The body-mind is not a pyramid, but a circle of interaction between the Internal Organs and their emotional aspects.

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Interesting differences between Chinese and Western ideas concerning emotions/body and health.
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Five Emotions: anger, joy, sorrow, fear and rumination, as well as others, and explains their significance to the practitioner. "The body-mind is not a pyramid, but a circle of interaction between the Internal Organs and their emotional aspects. Whereas Western Medicine tends to consider the influence of emotions on the organs as having a secondary or excitatory role rather than being a primary causative factor of disease, Chinese Medicine sees the emotions as an integral and inseparable part of the sphere of action of the Internal Organs.... Since the body and mind form an integrated inseparable unit, the emotions can not only cause a disharmony, but they can also be caused by it"

Anger, according to tradition, affects the liver; rumination taxes the spleen; sorrow depletes the lungs; excessive joy affects the heart, and fear affects the kidneys.