In Chinese medicine, all emotions in excess affect different organs.  Stress affects your liver.  Your liver energy becomes imbalanced and this causes stuck energy, tight muscles and further irritability.

Common symptoms of liver stagnation are:

• Irritability
• PMS
• Anger
• Sighing a lot
• Digestive issues

These are a few symptoms.  The most common symptom is irritability.  You will even feel worse during PMS time because your body is affected by your liver energy during this time.

When I talk about the liver, I am speaking about the ENERGY of the liver.  Not the liver organ.  The Chinese diagnosis has nothing to do with a modern diagnosis.

Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years and the system works.

One of the most popular herbal formulas used in Chinese medicine for liver stagnation is:

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