Understanding Mind-Body Interaction from the Perspective of East Asian Medicine

Figure 1

Characteristics of the relationships between emotions and the visceral systems. Emotions are presented on the -axis of the array and the organs of the visceral system are presented on the -axis of the array. The following emotions had superior tf-idf values with the following bodily organs: anger with the liver, happiness with the heart, thoughtfulness with the heart and spleen, sadness with the heart and lungs, fear with the kidneys and the heart, surprise with the heart and the gallbladder, and anxiety with the heart and the lungs.