Chinese medicine believes that seven emotions (joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and shock) can cause diseases, especially anger is more harmful to people, so anger hurts the liver. And "excessive liver fire" is mostly the external cause of "anger hurting the liver" Its clinical manifestations are mild, such as dizziness and headache, red face and red eyes, palpitation and insomnia, loss of appetite, chest tightness and abdominal distension. In severe cases, liver fire invades the stomach and vomits blood, liver fire invades the lungs and hemoptysis, liver wind moves and twitches, liver fire rushes to the heart and leads to heartache, coma or madness. So don't get angry easily.
Although there is no word "liver fire" in modern medicine, the occurrence and aggravation of many diseases are related to "liver fire", especially myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accident, which account for the fifth and sixth causes of death respectively. According to the report of the World Health Organization in 2000,170,000 people die of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases every year. The inducement of many people's death is "hyperactivity of liver yang" and "exuberance of liver fire" in anger, which leads to high excitement of sympathetic nerve, increased concentration of adrenaline and norepinephrine in blood, accelerated heartbeat and vasoconstriction, leading to a sharp rise in blood pressure, resulting in cerebrovascular rupture or cardiovascular and cerebrovascular spasm and occlusion. Professor Hong Zhaoguang pointed out in the book "Health Advice" that the arteries of ordinary people begin to harden in their forties and fifties, and the blood vessels become narrower year by year, and the narrowing range is about 1% ~ 2%. However, if you are angry and anxious, the artery may narrow 100% in just one minute, causing the tragedy that people often say is "irritating". If hypertension and coronary heart disease are invisible killers, then "excessive liver fire" is the killer's deadly weapon. In addition, "excessive liver fire" can also lead to other diseases, such as hyperthyroidism, with clinical manifestations such as low fever, red face, palpitation and sweating, easy hunger and emaciation, trembling fingers and rapid pulse. Or lead to the aggravation of certain diseases, such as hemoptysis in patients with tuberculosis and hematemesis in patients with gastric ulcer.
"Excessive liver fire" has such serious consequences. Besides actively treating the primary disease, it is equally important for patients to maintain peace of mind and balance. Chinese medicine points out: "Happiness leads to qi circulation, ambition leads to nourishing blood, and benefit leads to benefit", and "spiritual progress leads to recovery". All these show that a positive and optimistic mental state is a magic weapon to keep healthy and overcome diseases, and a good medicine for health and longevity. To this end, advise those "full of anger" friends to keep open-minded at all times and be open-minded everywhere. Might as well use "a big belly can accommodate things that are difficult to accommodate in the world;" Laugh often and laugh at ridiculous people in the world "to enlighten yourself; Use the famous saying "Anger is to punish yourself with other people's mistakes" to warn yourself; Only by warning yourself with the word "controlling anger" can we stay away from "burning our bodies with anger" and take the road of health.