Passions and Health

According to Chinese medicine, there are 7 passions which can affect one's Qi:

Joy
Excessive Joy can cause Heart injury, restlessness, nervousness, and loss of concentration.
Prolonged Joyfulness can lead to mental disorder and weird behaviour.

Rage
Excessive Rage can cause Liver injury, pallid and green complexion, and Qi to flow against normal blood flow.
Severe rage could lead to high blood pressure, painful eyeballs, and even lose of consciousness.

Anxiety
Excessive Anxiety can cause Lung injury, depression, and impede Lung Qi.
Prolonged Anxiety can further lead to Spleen damage.

Preoccupation
Excessive Preoccupation can cause Spleen injury, loss of appetite, gaseous stomach, and soft stool.
If prolonged, one will suffer insecurity, mental confusion, loss of memory, insomnia, excessive number of dreams, and quicken heartbeats.

Grief
Excessive Grief can cause Lung injury, depression, and impede Lung Qi.
Prolonged Grief can further lead to Spleen damage.

Fear
Excessive Fear can cause Kidney injury, dispersion of kidney Qi, mental disquiet, weak limbs, and incontinent. (Have you ever seen a mouse get stuck in a glue trap?)
Prolonged Fear can cause mental, behaviour, and speech confusion.

Terror (similar impact as Fear)
Excessive Terror can cause Kidney injury, dispersion of kidney Qi, mental disquiet, weak limbs, and incontinent.
Prolonged Terror can cause mental, behaviour, and speech confusion.

Therefore, if you notice any of the above symptoms, you should avoid irreparable damage to your body by relaxing and shifting out of those extreme mental states.

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