According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, emotional stress can begin to manifest in physical symptoms if we have been holding on to them for long periods of time of if those emotions are intense or overwhelming. Different emotions can negatively impact different TCM organs, so it’s very important when treating emotional stress to provide as much information as possible, even if you think that information is potentially useless. For example; the emotion of anger is related to

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