What diseases can liver depression and qi stagnation cause?

As we all know, the liver is the body's detoxification organ. We should protect our liver at ordinary times. If the liver is abnormal, it will cause abnormalities in human health. Modern people are under great pressure, and it is inevitable that they will be out of control in their emotions at ordinary times. If you get angry frequently, it is easy to affect your liver, such as liver qi stagnation. What diseases can liver qi stagnation cause?

What diseases can liver qi stagnation cause?

The symptoms of liver depression and qi stagnation can easily manifest as confusion, irritability and a bad temper due to illness. People who often overeat will also damage their spleen and stomach, which will affect their liver qi and manifest as an irritable personality.

Liver depression and qi stagnation mainly refers to the abnormal liver's function of dispersing and discharging, which leads to the state of qi stagnation due to untimely dispersing and discharging. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that: "The liver is a strong organ. It likes smooth and gentle emotions and hates depression. It is anger in the mind." The main meaning is that the liver is a strong and impatient organ. It likes comfortable and gentle emotions and hates anger, depression and so on.

Common clinical diseases of liver depression and qi stagnation

1. Liver depression and qi stagnation type stomach pain

(1) Causes: Liver qi fails to flow freely and smoothly, which intrudes on the spleen and stomach, causing liver-stomach disharmony or liver-spleen disharmony, qi and blood stagnation and stomach pain.

(2) Symptoms include pain in the epigastric region that extends to the flanks, which is felt and aggravated by emotional frustration. The patient is prone to sighing, has no appetite, and has poor sleep. The tongue coating is thin and white, and the pulse is stringy.

2. Liver depression and qi stagnation type of distension and fullness

(1) The cause of the disease is emotional disharmony and disordered Qi. Excessive worry will damage the spleen, while excessive anger will damage the liver. Stagnation of the liver and spleen Qi will affect the stomach and cause abnormal ascending and descending, which will lead to distension and fullness.

(2) Symptoms include abdominal distension and discomfort, which may extend to the flanks. Belching may relieve the symptoms. The patient may feel irritable and sigh from time to time. Symptoms are often aggravated by emotional factors. The tongue coating is thin and white, and the pulse is stringy.

3. Hiccups due to liver depression and qi stagnation

(1) Cause: Liver qi is stagnant and not properly regulated, causing liver qi to flow against the stomach, and stomach qi to flow up and cause hiccups.

(2) Symptoms include continuous hiccups, fullness in the chest and flanks, or intestinal rumbling and flatulence, or difficulty breathing, or nausea and belching, abdominal distension and loss of appetite, and a thin, greasy, stringy and slippery tongue coating.

4. Liver depression and qi stagnation type abdominal pain

(1) Causes: Depression and anger, liver qi fails to flow freely, qi movement is blocked, qi stagnation causes pain; or worry and worry damage the spleen, or liver depression suppresses the spleen, liver and stomach are not in harmony, qi movement is unfavorable, abdominal qi fails to flow and descends, causing abdominal pain; or qi stagnation for a long time, blood circulation is blocked, qi stagnation and blood stasis in the abdomen, blood vessels are blocked, causing abdominal pain.

(2) Symptoms include abdominal pain, distension and discomfort. The pain is not fixed in a certain place and moves around, often affecting the lower abdomen. The pain sometimes gathers and sometimes disperses, and is relieved by belching. The pain is often aggravated by emotional frustration. The tongue coating is thin white and the pulse is stringy.

5. Liver depression and qi stagnation type constipation

(1) The cause is emotional disharmony, liver qi stagnation, and failure to regulate the liver qi, which leads to conduction dysfunction and thus constipation.

(2) Symptoms include dry and hard stools, inability to defecate, abdominal distension, chest and flank fullness, belching, loss of appetite, bowel sounds and flatulence, difficulty in bowel movements, a thin white or thin yellow tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.

6. Side pain due to liver depression and qi stagnation

(1) The cause of the disease is depression, anger, and emotional discomfort, which lead to liver qi failure, poor qi flow, qi obstruction, and closure of the collaterals, resulting in side pain.

(2) Symptoms include pain and distension in the ribs, which moves around and is not fixed in any place. The pain increases or decreases with mood swings. There is chest tightness and abdominal distension, decreased appetite, frequent belching, sighing, a thin tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.