If a patient demonstrates one or more of these symptoms and signs, marijuana may be exerting physical effects on her/his liver system:
Feeling Dizzy
One of the first ways you can tell if unbalanced marijuana is affecting a person’s liver system is if s/he starts feeling dizzy and having trouble walking when s/he is high.
Anxiety and Panic Attacks
As the liver Qi becomes more frustrated the liver Yin and blood can begin to dry/burn up.
When this happens, a person may experience anxiety, panic attacks, headaches and nausea.
Coordinating Processes
The liver system is also in charge of the coordination of the thinking processes.
Unbalanced marijuana use or abuse can begin to alter a person’s motivations for doing things.
The ways s/he thinks and the ways that s/he can learn may change with continued use.
Effects on Women
It's easy to monitor unbalanced marijuana's effects on the liver blood in women. All you need to do is observe their menstrual blood and how they feel around the time of their menstruation.
Effects on Men
The main things men experience as unbalanced marijuana begins to encroach on their liver Qi are a lack of motivation, coordination and a loss of power in muscular strength.
As the liver Yin and blood begin to heat up in men, they can get irritable.
Compulsive Behaviors
When unbalanced marijuana begins to burn a person’s blood, s/he may fall into compulsive behaviors.
Compulsion is one of the strongest characteristics of the liver's Qi and Yin getting damaged.
Physical Addiction to Marijuana
You can tell if a person is physically addicted to marijuana if s/he hasn’t had marijuana for a while and s/he feels withdrawal symptoms.
These symptoms can come in the forms of depression, irritability, anxiety, trouble sleeping, emotional neediness or nausea.
MIST
The liver system is the seat of the Hun, or spiritual soul.
When unbalanced marijuana damages a person’s Hun, it can lead to a great variety of non-physical symptoms.
A very important mechanism of how unbalanced marijuana injures the Hun is seen in MIST, or Marijuana Induced Stress Trauma.
To learn more about MIST,
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Long-term cannabis use reduces cognitive flexibility
The effects of cannabis on
coordination are many.
CB1 cells in the brain regulate how nerve cells communicate with each other , and help to regulate emotion and motivation in the nucleus accumbens. Consider, then, the role of the Foot Jue Yin Liver system and it’s relationship with the nervous system...
Altering the natural balance of endocannabinoids can negatively impact the formation and attachment of the placenta in pregnancy. This can be viewed as another alteration of function of the development of the Foot Jue Yin Liver system.
“Sometimes users at a given level of intoxication feel an intense need to become even more intoxicated...”
Although it is not reported very often in the literature, I’ve seen clinically many times that
trembling can occur as a short-term direct effect of cannabis intoxication. The trembling usually happens at the beginning of the high as the drug enters the liver system...
Chronic active cannabis use in humans may
alter psychomotor function, brain activation, and hypothalamic-pituitary-axis (HPA) function in men and women...
Early-onset chronic cannabis users demonstrate poorer cognitive performance than controls and late-onset users in
executive functioning...
Yes, some users of cannabis can tend to become more
impulsive react more slowly and make more mistakes...
Some recent German research and views on
marijuana and panic attacks...
Does the use of cannabis affect night vision? And what is the relationship between CB1Rs and RGCs?
THC at low doses reduces stress, while higher doses have the opposite effect..
This is just a brief synopsis of my findings. For extensive details on how to balance and optimize the effects of cannabis using Traditional Chinese Medicine, please refer to
Marijuana Syndromes
How to Balance and Optimize
the Effects of Cannabis
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