7 Emotions

  • Anger and frustration
    • Liver
  • Joy and mania
    • emotion of heart
    • overly joyous ⇒ burnout
  • Pensiveness, contemplation
  • Worry, Anxiety
    • spleen
    • bloating. warm foods recommended. not as taxing on our bodies
  • Sadness, grief
    • Lung
  • Fear
    • Kidney
  • Shock

5 elements: fire, earth, metal, water, wood

Meridien system: lay of the land. Use to correct imbalances

From Lily Choi’s Heal Yourself with Traditional Chinese Medicine