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  "title": "The origins of bipolar disorder seen from Traditional Chinese Medicine",
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              "plaintext": "From a French publication (Les troubles bipolaires:de la cyclothymie au syndrome maniaco-dépressif), It is known that great figures like Napoleon Bonaparte have bipolar disorder. After reading a bit about Chinese Medicine literature, I think maybe it is a classification trick that includes many great figures."
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              "plaintext": "The TCM theory"
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              "plaintext": "气 (Qi): According to 黄帝内经, the five organs (心肝肺脾肾) creates Qi. Note that the organs in TCM does not correspond one to one to the organs in Western Medicine."
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              "plaintext": "Emotions (喜怒哀乐) disturbs Qi in different ways. In particular, Happiness makes Qi calmer."
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              "plaintext": "志 (Goal): A Goal creates Thought."
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              "plaintext": "A person is has Shen (神, the mental energy) and Form (形, the physical form)."
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              "plaintext": "思 (Thought): Too much Thought/thinking wastes Qi and harms Shen."
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              "plaintext": "Having too great an ambition damages Shen. This is why I call bipolar disorder a classification trick, since according to Chinese Medicine, there is cause and effect between ambition and this mental disorder."
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              "plaintext": "Having too much ambition is just one possible source of emotional disorder. There are way more sources where an emotional disorder can arise from."
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              "plaintext": "How to cure bipolar disorder, according to TCM"
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              "plaintext": "Live with daily schedule according to the seasons (see《黄帝内经・素问》四氣調神大論第二) , eat well (寒热湿燥风 every kind of food has certain properties that can affect the body), exercise well (depending on the body status, different exercise fits it)."
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  "description": "Do emotions cause emotional disorder, or do something else cause emotions to go haywire?",
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