Grandmaster Tse’s Qìgōng Dāo 氣功道 436

10. Weak Liver

In Chinese medicine, the liver is related to the emotions. When the liver is weak, we will have all kinds of emotions, sometimes we will feel good, sometimes we will feel sad, sometimes scared, sometimes excited, etc. The liver is also related to our circulation and therefore to our Qi and blood. If it Qi and blood are not balanced, then we will have trouble relaxing. In order to gain a good night’s sleep we need to relax, not sleep because of tiredness. A weak liver can cause emotional problems and poor circulation and this means we will not be able to settle down and therefore it will affect our sleep which can then lead to insomnia. 

Actually there are more than 10 reasons or 10 causes of insomnia. Anything that affects us physical or emotional can cause sleeping problems. For example, if you suddenly lose your job, your partner, your children have a problem, if you watch a movie which disturbs you, have a big event coming up, have an injury, just had an operation, back pain, tooth pain, headaches, etc. all these things can disturb us and cause us to have a bad sleep and if this happens a lot then we have insomnia.