TCM causes of diseases
In Chinese medicine, the causes of diseases are as follow:
- External pathogens invasions (say what?)
- Emotions
- Weak constitution
- Lifestyle (diet, sleep, stress, exercise, drug use...)
- Environment
- Poison
- Wrong treatment (happens more often than you may think)
- Trauma (mental or physical)
Click on the cause above to understand the Chinese medicine view on each of those and learn about your own health.
Emotions: Worry, over thinking, fear, shock, anxiety, anger, sadness...
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), emotions play a major role in one's health. It is important to experience and express our emotions on a regular basis. It is healthy. It becomes an issue when emotions are repressed or one specific one is long standing. If someone is very angry but never express it, the day that person blows, it affects their whole world and their own health. Their blood pressure may rise, they may get a migraine, vomit or have sleep disturbances.
Also, in the same token, one person may worry constantly for years. Usually they will have a difficult time falling asleep or sleeping at all. Their digestion will suffer with diarrhea and/or constipation, and feel exhausted from a constant over thinking mind.
Our physical body is connected to our mind and never separated. For example, if you have to speak in front of a crowd for work and you are anxious about public speaking. The mind will affect the body and your palm will sweat, you face may feel hot and red, you may be shaking or become nauseous. Is that make sense? It sure does to me.
I often tell my student about this study that was done in England a few years ago on women with uterus cancer. 86% of them had had some sexual abuse in their life. That is a huge number.
The impact of the emotions that an abused victim feels is tremendous: guilt, shame, fear, anger, worthlessness, low self-esteem...And especially if the woman did not receive psychological help, the emotions may have festered for years and finally formed cancerous cells in the area that was violated. It is a powerful study for it really reenforces TCM view on emotions and their effect one health.
Acupuncture and TCM has been proven to be very helpful in calming the mind and relaxing the patient especially when there is worry, over thinking, obsessive disorder, anger, frustration, depression and or anxiety.
Clara Cohen
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