How to Determine Your Health Via Your Daily Behaviors

This is actually an old article that I have written half a year ago on my personal blog. Since we are on the topic of health recently, I thought it would be relevant to include this for your reference. :)

The findings in this article is actually documented under Chinese medicine. I am merely translating and summarizing what I have read, and perhaps occasionally went a note further by when certain things were implied but not explicitly mentioned in the books I read.

So here we go!

Lungs

How do you know when you have weak lungs? You have weak lungs when you get depressed very easily. Have you ever realize why people like to sigh when they are depressed? It's because the lungs is not working as well and get uncomfortable, you are unconsciously trying to give it a push by inhaling more air and then push all of them out. It feels slightly better when you give it a huge sighhhh right? That's because it's not you, it's your lungs.

Also noticed why people like to smoke when they are down? Cigarettes are well-known to contain harmful toxins, these toxins once inhaled would incapacitate the lungs, causing the already weak lungs not to retaliate by not feeling uncomfortable. Eventually you will realize that smokers smoke more and more. As more and more toxins are stored in the lungs, the lungs try harder and harder to retaliate, then 1 or 2 ciggies wouldn't really work anymore, you need a lot more toxins injected to disable the retaliation.

Heart

People with weak heart, tends to get nervous easily. It's simple to visualize in modern medicine terms. When you are nervous, your blood pressure sky rocket. Heart being a key component in regulating blood pressure must have not been working as intended if you get nervous all the time. So if you get nervous too easily, time to do more cardio exercise. People with a lack of confidence, timid and shy, or non-assertive may also have a weak heart. After all it seems like when the situations arise, your blood pressure is quite readily hitting the sky without hesitation!

Liver

When one's liver is weak, the person will be very impatient. Liver belongs to the wood element. Ever notice why in Malaysia, people tends to be a lot more impatient in general? Or how people gets impatient when they are really hot but not so much when they are really cold? Because when it's too hot, fire element is too strong, then the wood element would be very weak. Liver being the wood element, would be weaken as a result.

Also, ever wonder why of all organs, only liver grows back? Because of 5 elements, only wood grows. 

Stomach

A person with a weak stomach would usually have appetite problem. As such they wouldn't be consuming too much food usually. This would normally lead to lack of energy, and consequently laziness. On a side note, even if one do not have appetite problem, and eats a lot, it does not mean that all the food eaten are absorbed properly. Fat people can be really lazy or more accurately, lethargic too. Hence laziness and lethargy would be a good indicator to check whether one has a weak stomach or not.

Kidneys

If you have weak kidneys, your thoughts would be rather cluttered, unclear, and mostly inconsistent. You will appear hesitant, erratic and confused most of the time. May I go a level higher to even suggest that, you would even be dumber than you could have been because your thoughts aren't well established and you wouldn't be able to absorb informations quickly as you could. So apart from needing to pee extremely often, being very confused could be an indication that you should look out for your kidney.

Now of course in modern days living, most of us have at least one or two symptoms mentioned above. Not something to be proud of, but it's actually rather normal seeing how unhealthy our life style have become. The thing is, if you have a weak organ, try to work towards strengthening it. Quit alchohol to recover your liver; do more cardio to improve your heart; eating raw vegetables and fruits as well as nuts to work on your stomach; go out of the city for some fresh air for lungs, and quit coffee to protect your kidneys; before they go way bad.

If you have some of the symptoms mentioned above, you may have some weak organs, but they are not that bad yet. Unless you are like, extremely lazy, or depressed, or impatient, then... maybe you should check things out with a health practitioner.

Still, live healthy. :)