Why is Spring the Best Time to Rescue Your Liver?

According to TCM, the energy in our body follows the cosmic cycles and spring is the best time to enhance the energy flow in your liver meridian. Your liver is a Chief General and has its own intelligence. It has accumulated wisdom for many generations and organizes many functions in the body, one of the most important tasks of the liver as we all know is detoxification. When the energy is depleted in your liver meridian, you may experience chronic fatigue, insomnia, irritability, digestive issues, and dry eyes. Based on the Five Element Theory in TCM, each organ in our body is associated with our emotions. For example, anger and frustration are associated with the liver. Let’s dive into how emotions affect our health.

Anger
If you have a hot temper and easily engage in arguments with others, your self-healing ability is likely to be twice as slow as others. For example, if you already feel under the weather, but you are spending 30 minutes arguing with others, this will have a negative impact on your self-healing abilities and take extra time to recover. If you have just had an upset argument with someone recently, it is best to distract yourself as much as you can. As long as the memory of the argument is repeated in the mind, your stress level will rise again. In other words, hostility triggered by the upset memories will only cause more damage to your health.

Stress
Short-term stress can increase your body’s immune response, but if the stress becomes chronic, the situation is completely different. Long-term stress can affect your memory and impact your decision-making ability. It also reduces your immune function and decreases your productivity. In addition, stress can also increase allergic reactions. According to the studies, when you are under chronic stress, your allergy symptoms can be worse.
 
Women tend to bottle up their feelings after a conflict with their loved ones. This likely doubles their risks of heart disease and stroke. But if you let yourself yell out due to the anger, you are not doing yourself a favor either. According to the studies, even a few minutes of an explosion of anger will cause blood pressure and heart rate to rise rapidly, which will increase the possibility of heart attack by 19%. Even if you find a middle way to express your anger, such as impatience or grief, the stress and depression associated with anger are equally unhealthy, and it will suppress your immune system as well.
 
Depression
Depression and sadness are linked to the lungs and large intestine. The tears contain a lot of stress-related hormones and neurotransmitters. It is thought that tears are a great way for the body to remove harmful chemicals under pressure. If you suppress your negative emotions, this will eventually affect your immune function, memory, and digestion. Serotonin and dopamine are two important neurotransmitters that contribute to your happiness and inner calmness. When you are in a good mood, their levels are higher in your body. Another important function of these neurotransmitters is to help reduce pain, which should explain why 45% of people with depression are also suffering from various physical pains.
 
Fear is associated with the kidneys. Fear mixed with stress and anger will trigger the body's 'emergency mechanism', which can attack the heart function, increase the blood pressure and pulse, threaten the immune system, and make the person feel very anxious.

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