East West Medical Center TCM Psychology

Special Psychology problems treatment offer.

There is a wealth of knowledge in TCM psychology. TCM believes that all of the higher nervous activities, such as mental, consciousness, and thinking, result mainly from the functions of the heart. In the TCM classic text, called the Nei Jing, states that the heart represents the consciousness of one’s being. TCM gives the heart predominance over the other organs because it holds or houses the mind or Shen, as it is called in Chinese.

Shen represents consciousness. Shen includes thinking, intelligence, comprehension, comparing, identification, memory and sleep. All of these crucial functions are the heart’s responsibility.Creativity is ideally a fusion of the body,mind,emotions and spirit. These fall under the heart’s domain, when the heart’s energy is balanced. The individual thinks clearly, has a good memory and sleeps soundly. When this organ’s energy is unbalanced, symptoms such as muddled thinking, poor memory and insomnia can appear. Shen, which also means “spirit? encompasses the emotional and spiritual dimensions of being that are centered in the heart and have aspects connected with the other organs. Mental or emotional problems, such as anxiety, restlessness. stress and depression can have their source in unbalanced heart energy.

Every organ has an emotion. For cancer patients there are more emotions of fear caused from kidney deficiency. TCM holds that human mental activities are closely related with the viscera. The principle of yin and yang describes that man has five organs which may bring on five moods (organ- qi) to produce joy, anger, grief, melancholy and fear. It also believes that certain organs are related to certain emotional activity. The heart is related to joy, liver to anger, spleen to anxiety, the lung to melancholy and the kidney to fear. In TCM physiology and psychology includes descriptions of how certain emotions affect certain organ systems. For example, anger hurts the liver, grief hurts the lungs, over joyousness hurts the heart, fear hurts the kidneys, and worrying and obsessive thinking hurts the spleen. Emotional and psychological problems accompany bodily illnesses. The emotions can be a cause of diseases that include cancer. Anger impairs the liver. Joy impairs the heart. Anxiety impairs the spleen. Melancholy impairs the lungs. Fear impairs the kidney.

The heart controls mental activities. It is the arch-governor of the five zang organs (heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys) and the six fu bowels (small and large intestines, gallbladder, stomach, bladder, and pericardium). Excessive grief, sorrow, worries and melancholy will effect the heart. When the heart is effected, the five organs and six bowels will be effected.

Our center offer acupuncture therapy,Chinese herb Medicine therpy and Tai Qi exercises for psychological problems such as stress, insomnia, depress, anxiety,reduce fat, schizophrenia, etc.