At first, the ancients only said that people have four kinds of feelings, namely, "joy, anger, sadness and joy" in The Mean. Later generations explained that people will be "happy" when they meet those they like, "angry" when they don't like them, "happy" when they get what they love, and "sad" when they lose what they love.
Anger is caused by evil and joy by love, so adding evil and love to joy, anger, sadness and joy can divide emotions into four or six categories.
2. Six desires: refers to the physiological needs or desires of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. That is, desire for sight, desire for hearing, desire for fragrance, desire for taste, desire for touch and desire.
Six desires originated from Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals. Among them, it says: "The so-called life is suitable for all six desires." This means that "natural" people and their "six desires" have been properly satisfied. The so-called "all one's life" is the highest realm of human cultivation. Here, the ancients did not point out what the "six desires" included. Later, some people commented that "life and death, ears, eyes, mouth and nose" refers to people's various desires.
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First, the relationship between seven emotions and viscera essence
Emotional activities are produced by the response of viscera essence to external environmental factors, and viscera essence is the internal physiological basis of emotional activities. Because the human body is an organic whole centered on the five internal organs, emotional activities are most closely related to the essence of the five internal organs. "Su Wenyin Yang Ying Xiang Da Lun" said: "People have five internal organs and five qi, which leads to emotions and fears."
The five internal organs store essence, which is refined into qi. The movement of qi responds to the external environment and produces emotional activities. Therefore, the essence of the five internal organs can produce corresponding emotional activities, such as "Su Wen Yin Yang Ying Xiang Da Lun", which says that the liver is angry, the heart is happy, the spleen thinks, the lungs are worried, and the kidneys are afraid.
The rise and fall of the five zang-organs essence, the coordination of storing and discharging movements, and the smooth operation of qi and blood play a fundamental role in emotional changes. If the essence, qi, yin and yang of the five internal organs change in excess and deficiency, and the qi and blood function is out of balance, abnormal emotional changes may occur. For example, "Lingshu itself" says: "Qi deficiency in the liver leads to fear, but in fact it leads to anger ... Qi deficiency in the heart leads to sadness, but in fact it leads to endless laughter."
Su Wen's Theory of Adjusting Classics says: "Too much blood leads to anger, and too little blood leads to fear." On the other hand, the change of external environment is too strong, and the emotion is too intense or lasting, which can lead to the dysfunction of viscera, essence, yin and yang, and the dysfunction of qi and blood. Such as great joy and great sorrow, great anger and depression, liver injury, excessive thinking and kidney injury.
Heart and liver play a more important role in the generation and change of emotional activities. Holding the spirit in the heart is the master of the internal organs, dominating and regulating all physiological functions and psychological activities of the body. All kinds of emotional activities are the result of the coordination of yin and yang of zang-fu organs under the command of ideas.
Various environmental factors act on the human body, which can affect the essence and function of viscera, and also affect the mind and produce corresponding emotional activities. For example, "Classics, Diseases, Emotions and Nine Spirits" said: "The heart is the master of the five internal organs, and the soul of the president should be ambitious. Therefore, if you worry about your heart, your lungs will react. If you think about it, your spleen will react. If you are angry, your liver will react. If you are afraid, your kidney will react. This is why the five records are only made by your heart. "
The generation of normal emotional activities depends on the filling of the essence and qi of the five internal organs and the smoothness of qi and blood, while the liver controls the discharge, regulates qi and promotes and regulates the operation of qi and blood, thus playing an important role in regulating emotional activities and maintaining good emotions.
Second, the treatment characteristics of seven emotions
Exogenous seven emotions disturb qi activity first: external stimuli induce emotional pathological changes, which disturb the five zang-organs qi activity first, leading to qi disorder and pathological changes.
The seven emotions are from the inside out, and the essence is deficient first: emotional causes occur, such as deficiency of yin and yang, mental loss, or depression and evil disturbing the spirit.
Seven emotions, the first injury is dirty: emotional illness, the first injury is dirty or dirty. Clinically, different lazy stimuli can affect different organs.
The onset of seven emotions is repetitive: emotional diseases are very repetitive in clinic, such as depression (mental depression), and the illness will recur if it is not satisfactory.
The onset of seven emotions is mixed: the pathogenic factors of seven emotions are often difficult to be completely separated in the course of onset, and two or more emotions are often combined to cause disease.
The seven emotions have periodicity: the seven emotions have strong periodicity. For example, when men were in 1988 and women were in 1977 (menopause), liver and kidney essence failed, which was prone to emotional diseases.
The outbreak of seven emotions is related to climate: the change of natural climate directly affects people's emotions and causes pathological changes.
The attack of the seven emotions has a law of transmission and change: the attack of the seven emotions has a certain law of transmission and change for each emotion. For example, great anger hurts the liver, and liver anger spreads to children.
"He said," Those who are angry will be confused and die. "
Liver-qi is transmitted to the mother, and "Lingshu Benjing" says: "Kidney-qi is not only harmful to the will." Liver anger takes soil, "
"Yu Suwen Ji Zhen Dirty" said: "Anger leads to liver qi." Liver anger insults gold, Su Wenxuan Wu Mingqi
Say: "Fine and lungs are sad." Therefore, Yu Suwen Ji Zhen Dirty said: "The disease has changes at five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock and twenty-five o'clock, and its spread", and pointed out the law of the spread of emotional diseases.
Seven emotions are intertwined: seven emotions are often closely related to six evils.
The attack of seven emotions is inseparable from depression: the attack of seven emotions is closely related to depression syndrome, which often leads to the attack of qi stagnation when the mood is unhappy; When qi stagnation (qi, blood, phlegm, fire, food, dampness) occurs, it is also easy to disturb the five internal organs, leading to restless five spirits and emotional disorder; Seven emotions can also be accompanied by depression syndrome. Therefore, Chen had to say, "Depression cannot be separated from seven emotions".
The seven emotions are extremely extensive; It will also aggravate chronic diseases; Seven emotions can transform each other.
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