Spleen disorders

The spleen is read as the lodging place of nostalgia, regret, worry and unfinished things. When it falters, the pattern is staying fixed on dark, negative ideas - obsessed by someone or something, energy draining - with a gnawing sense of being a "failure" for not finishing what one started. One tradition groups the spleen with the liver and gall in the body's anger-and-power centre, adding dissatisfaction, a need to dominate or control, stinginess, and a lack of joy in oneself and others. The short explanation's "lack of intelligent co-operation" with one's deeper self sits in that backward-looking, dissatisfied fixation. Relief is described as turning the page on regret, easing the need to control, and co-operating with one's own aspirations and joy again.

Example from the findings: the spleen is read as the seat of regret and dissatisfaction, faltering where one stays fixed, controlling and joyless.