| The emotion theory of is an important component of Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM.rhe interrelated understandings of TCM for psychosomatic physiology and pathology have reflected its own epistemology and methodology, which originates from the holism.First of all,the mental health is considered as an inseparable part of the human health in TCM;secondly,the etiology about the six exopathogens and the internal injuries caused by seven kinds of emotions,which is based on《The Medical Classic of The Yellow Emperor》, puts emphasis on the vital part that emotion plays in the whole course of disease,from the germination to the following development.What's more, through the theory of yinyang and five elements,TCM combines emotions with visceral functions,leading to that the relationship between body and mind becomes more specific,and there are rules for the clinical treatment based on syndrome differentiation of TCM to go by.It also has formed a psychosomatic medicine model of a totally different style,showing special value on the background of the conversion of modern medical medel.This paper aims at the study of the correlation among emotion,aging and senile disease.Through systemic study of related literatures,it is to put the development of the emotion theory of TCM in order,and provides a summary of the contemporary investigation of emotion,aging and senile disease. Emotion in the mind of a leading role,basic of the five viscera's essence, base on the coordinate viscera functional activities as internal conditions, under the influence and stimulation of outside world,to meet its own objective things,to has some tendentious attitude.Aging is a series of degenerative changes of physiological and morphological with growth people.Senile disease that refer to diseases with older people and diseases have their own characteristics.Good emotional activities can be an effective factor which anti-aging process occurring,reduce the incidence of senile disease.Negative emotions can not only accelerate the aging process,but also as an important factor to induce senile diseases.Thus it can increase the incidence of senile diseases and affect health of elder.This paper study the pathogenic development of emotion from the period of Warring states-Three kingdoms to Ming and Qing.The theory of the internal injuries caused by seven emotions,which first elucidated by the yellow emperor's internal classic,is the important etiology ingredient of emotion. And the study developed by later ancient doctors.The three-factor theory, proposed by Wuze,Chen,first identified the concept of seven emotion and its position in etiology.This paper also concentrates on the basic characteristics of mental health. People in good mental health are considered to have the characteristics of "harmony" and "proper",just as what the shengqitongtian theory from plain questions says,"the spirit is in good state while both the yin and yang is in equilibrium".It should be neither excessive nor deficient.To avoid the extremity on emotion,is the basic demand for keeping good mental health. Harmonious relationship between psychological activities,physical and mental has beneficial to human health.Negative emotion can influence aging and senile disease.Emotional disorders could cause disease that develop senile by deficiency on viscera,failure in vital energy and blood,qi-movement disturbance,imbalance of yin and yang,phlegm stagnation and blood stasis etc.Adjust emotion correctly,we can prevent disease and delay aging.To adjust emotion correctly,we can prevent disease and delay aging.Negative emotional activities can accelerate aging by harming viscera,exhausting essence,damaging Ying Yang.We can adjust emotion to delay aging,prevent and cure senile disease by binding of treatment and nourishing,dynamic static integrated,combines with tong and supplement,in combination of congenital situation and acquired treatment.Negative emotion result aging is the important factor that influence on elderly health and aging.To adjust emotion correctly,elder can delay the aging and decrease rate of senile diseases occurring.This paper has systematically consulted,summarized and analyzed a great number of ancient literatures on emotion theory,and has made deep research into the history about how emotion leads to diseases as well as the correlation among emotion,aging and senile disease.It provides some clinical methods of adjusting emotions as the reference for clinical applications.It also provides reasonable ideas and measures to further reveal the mechanism of how emotion results in deficiency,slow down the rate of aging and prevent and cure senile diseases.This paper puts forwards research assumption in future. It is considered that in the future the first step of clinical research is to make the research plan of clinical investigation on applying emotion therapy to prevention and treatment of senile diseases and the corresponding specific measures.Proper animal models will be also applied to studying the anti-aging mechanism,in order to make further prevention and treatment of senile diseases. |