Anger includes a whole spectrum of emotions: rage, anger, resentment, frustration, irritability, feeling indignant, aggrieved, bitterness, contained rage. Sometimes people have trouble recognizing that they have anger, but they do admit to resentment or frustration.

These emotions abruptly ascend the Qi so they often give symptoms in the upper part of the body (like wind): in the head and neck, headaches, dizziness, red spots on the face or neck, bitter taste in the mouth, red eyes. In China it is important to avoid making elderly people angry, "you are going to frighten me to death".

The person when faced with anger reacts by expressing it or containing it. In the long term it can cause these pathologies:

Contained anger

• Liver-Qi stagnation. This in turn can attack the Spleen (loss of appetite), Large Intestine (producing diarrhea or constipation) or Stomach (vomiting). In the long term it can be the origin of depression.
• Liver-Blood stasis

These people should be encouraged to express their emotions.

Unleashed anger

• Excess of Liver-Fire in more Yang people or those with a tendency toward heat.
• Excess of Heart-Fire due to the mother/child relationship with the Liver.
• Liver-Yang rising, especially in people with Kidney-Yin deficiency, exhausted from overwork, they do not have enough water to contain the Liver-Yang.

These people cannot contain the expression of their rage and have problems with loss of control.

The energy of anger is healthy and positive if we apply it to achieve our goals. The Gall Bladder stores determination because it collects this energy from the Liver and stores it in the form of courage. With a strong Gall Bladder you can make decisions with courage and undertake changes in life.