Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) looks very strongly at the effects of emotions and health. The 5 elements and their corresponding organs are; Wood (Liver), Fire (Heart), Earth (Spleen), Metal (Lung) and Water (Kidney). The main emotions involved with these organs are; Liver/anger. Heart/over thinking. Spleen/worry. Lung/grief.
Kidney/ fear. TCM believes that sound emotional health may help prevent disease associated with these organs and our over all health in general.