The theory of seven emotions theory

ZhaiShuangQing Beijing university of Chinese medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        "Classic" on the understanding of the psychological activity commonly used seven emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, to think, sad, fear, surprised) to describe. Just physically, think of emotion activity of seven emotions is summarized, is emotional expression form; Just as pathology, mind lesions can show the change of seven emotions; And seven emotions can also cause changes mind lesions. The later this subject have played, such as LiuWanSu hand pointed out that "five volunteers are a very can turn the fire", namely excessive five volunteers, certainly will mental troubles, disturbance sun be the spirit, so can the cremation hot, hot KangCheng and can disrupt the gods, and the gentle disposition disorder; On the other hand, points out that the gods and lead cross fire to produce all sorts of characteristic lesions. Its in the grain asked the mystery disease type, "said:" the five minds, anger, joy, sadness, thought, could also (sad a sorrow), if he's, too much work, hurt this dirty, all five wounded by volunteers are heat also... love hurt, then all hot." And ZhangJieBin emphasize seven emotions "from the heart and hair," "exchanged for disease". Its in "the sentiment of · 9 gas" pointed out: "the world has called the seven emotions, which the five volunteers of the five volunteers. Besides, still the three. In short yue: think sorrow, fear and fright grief, anger, fear, the purpose is eight, more than seven also. Natural emotion although have eight, no more than five out of five zang-organs.... the five volunteers belong. Five volunteers of also have exchanged for the sick, such as xi the heart, lungs and joy of the injury, is infinitely waters is also pleased the Lord to heart. Cover xi was born in shenyang, and cardiopulmonary all for Yang dirty, so pleased for heart and lung, the so-called more in moving a xi Yang....... is the characteristic of the five zang-organs, although each has hurt, but the subordinate; by, it is from the heart and hair." It expounds the specific meaning of the five five line and the relationship, and the following briefly described as follows.

        Joy: happiness is for things hence wish or consciously interesting and in a happy mood performance, because its lively and performance on outside, so have the fire motor, lively, inflammation of the like, belongs to fire and with belong to the heart. So the meat asked · should be like big Yin and Yang of "say: the heart" in volunteer for pleased ".

        Wrath: for wrath is not a sensible met him mood or something unpleasant, even in the heart of jealousy uneven emotions, the margin of a poor article angry machine, anger and can cause angry machine is in inverse jade too, and anger, and the hair like a wooden like, it belongs to the wood and match belong to the liver. So the meat asked · should be like big Yin and Yang of "says: liver" in volunteers for anger ".

        Sorrow: sorrow is to some unknown results and not let it happen, fearing that form a kind of anxiety, depressed mood state, because of its within and tend to be angry machine of convergence, so belong to gold and bundled lung. So the meat asked · should be like big Yin and Yang of "says:" for lung in volunteers sorrow.

        Think: think about, is generally accepted view think its refers to think, thought (such as wang bing note), and to declare it cognitive, thinking, will category, put forward the cognitive and close to the sentiment, difficult to separate. Some people think, think that by the spleen, its and anger, joy, sadness, fear, the relationship between the characteristic, is the center of the earth, with the characteristics of irrigation four dirty corresponding; More some people thought "anger, sadness, fear, or whether it all by thinking and later, so the meat asked · should be like big Yin and Yang of" speech: "people have the organs of the five gas, anger, sadness went away with birth could not mention '," is the best because he has thought, all with ", this kind of situation to spleen in the middle in, for angry machine hub, a host of other organs and angry machine work, or even think we are gentle disposition activity center, is the starting point and the destination of seven emotions. In addition, still have a kind of understanding, someone from the pre-qin language Angle, think "thinking" have a meaning, belongs to the category of sentiment, has the sad and so on many kinds of meaning, and sorrow are sad and so on various levels of the complex emotional response is a reflection of dirty, spleen soil in the middle in irrigation, four alongside, for the characteristics of the four dirty. These know, are emphasized the fact that, "thought" in seven emotions and occupies an important position, is the foundation of the characteristic is the other activities, and of the earth to spleen, also explain spleen has adjust the function of the characteristic is the other activities. Actually, we think of seven emotions "thinking" referred to be combined with concrete person external emotional state performance to consider, not a thinking activity, and should refers to person seriously thinking of mental state, this spiritual state is characteristic of the other performance based, because other sentiment all is "thinking" and hair, just think state of mind sometimes behaved is obvious, such as sadness, grief and sorrow, sorrow, sometimes behaved very not obvious, often slid over are easy to overlook, such as happiness, anger, etc.

        Grief: sad sad when trouble spirit is the misery disappointed emotions, its like the autumn wind sweeps the fallen leaf of such as desolate, lifeless, angry machine inside collect, so belong to gold and advocate in the lung. So the meat asked · should be like big Yin and Yang of "say:" sad-anger ", has been clear about the "sad" of gold to the lungs.

        Fear: fear is the body's face and tried to break out of a dangerous and powerless, produce the spirit of the emotional experience extremely nervous, because its from within and often cause angry machine of water in the sink and kidney. So the meat asked · should be like big Yin and Yang of "says: kidney" in volunteers for fear ".

        Surprised: surprised is not aware of it in a meet very very incident, mental tension and fear of sudden terrifying emotional expression, can influence multiple viscera, the subject of a later that the heart envelope, also have think that when the bravery of. We think that because surprised easy to angry machine to the wooden disorder chang abnormal, have sudden and kind of like the wind, reason should belongs to the wood and advocate in the liver.

        As early as in "classic" before GuXian China to emotional had a profound understanding of, not only think emotions has two polarity characteristics, such as "the ceremonies.from · LiYun" "to evil, the main heart also." And that sentiment is "put learning can", that is, the instinct. Still think feeling is stimulated and by external backwardness. The theory of inherited GuXian understanding, determine the specific content of the emotion that lots of emotions, and put forward the emotional expression and produce is the essence of the five zang-organs based activities, as the plain question should be like big · Yin and Yang of "said:" people have the organs of the five gas, anger, sorrow with birth could care." Not only that, "classic" according to their respective characteristics also seven emotions and the Yin and Yang of the five elements, the classification of the five zang-organs are bundled with will, and to put forward the division between the evils of the five elements in g relationship with, namely "sad-anger", "fear-xi", "anger-thinks", "xi-sorrow", "thinking overcome fear"; In addition, in the role of seven emotions and with the human body can cause people angry machine different changes, such as "the meat asked · for pain theory", "anger is on the air, gas or slow, sad, gas away, fear is gas down", "surprised the gas is random", "thought is gas" ". Thus for clinical treatment for diseases of abnormal characteristic is to provide the basis. These know still guides Chinese medicine theory and clinical development. And the use of the characteristic is the cure YiAn also enumerate, such as the reflection of wei FangJi · · book biography of hua tuo of the medical record in anger, the medical department xerox · · wen zhi medical from celebrities of the medical record in anger, the reason things close · lacks form, because the xi-grief sorrow agglomerate case, disease, or anger not food-anger case, surprised the door "surprised the flat" case, the reason things close QiGan disease in nine more · for put to art, fear-xi case, the renewal of famous doctors in out of · of the sorrow to the joy for epilepsy case, the renewal of medical case · cried and laughed, sad-xi case and so on, all of these.

        Seven emotions is for people outside the summary of the change of mood, it summarized the characteristic of people change, also can saying is the division of emotional content, and because their meaning is clear and to have some characteristics, thus will belong to the Yin and Yang of the five elements is completely can acceptable that have guided the development of traditional Chinese medicine theory of traditional Chinese medicine and clinical application. But, also should see, though, belong to the five line and seven emotions in emergencies five zang-organs, but meanwhile and influence each other, is also very complicated relationship, so its pathogenic also often don't press five lines of law. "Classic" more than paper covers all kinds of gentle disposition can sad, such as "the evil spirit hub · viscera disease form" cloud: "sorrow sorrow fear is sad", "spirit hub · mouth asked" cloud: "sad sad sorrow is enchanted, move the intestines are wave", the coffins · impediment execution of spirit "cloud:" sad sad "and so on all is; And the spirit hub Ben god ", and puts forward ChuTi thought sad, sad, sad sad spleen hurt liver, joy, and hurt lung, great anger kidney damage, the reason of transmission of variable neither focused on heart and scattered to five zang-organs, also not according to the pattern of the five elements in emergencies. These on one hand the Lord for the gods that heart of the concept of the occupies an important position in Chinese medicine, also reflected in the gentle disposition pathogenic; On the other hand also sentiment that hurt and complex, have often change, not with the five elements to generalize, so the card treatment and do not have to be informal.