For 2,000 years, Chinese medicine mapped emotions as physical forces. The Neijing Suwen wrote: “Anger injures the Liver, grief consumes the Lungs, fear sinks the Kidneys, worry knots the Spleen, joy scatters the Heart.” To them, emotions weren’t abstract—they were chemical storms that left traces in tissue. In 2021, a research team at the University of Hong Kong used high-resolution MRI to track chronic emotion patterns. The findings echoed the classics: patients with prolonged anger showed micr

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