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As well as being the ‘General’, the Liver is said to make the Qi of the body and mind flow smoothly. To help us to understand this function more clearly we can think of a baby sitting on the floor. The baby notices a soft toy and reaches out, picks it up, shakes it up and down, gurgles and laughs and then lets go. From noticing the toy to dropping it is a smooth process.

Suppose, however, that just as the baby reaches out for the toy someone shouts ‘No’. The baby might tense up, pull back and look towards the ‘No’. The energy is interrupted and flows jerkily. After the first ‘No’, the baby might again see the toy, but hesitate and look around. The smooth and natural flow of Qi has been broken.

At first the baby’s smooth flow is interrupted from the outside. With sufficient interruptions, however, the Liver will no longer be able to smooth the Qi from the inside. Later in life this can produce a wide variety of symptoms — from moodiness and depression to irregular periods, period pains and clots in the menstrual blood. These are expanded in the section on the symptoms of the Liver and Gall Bladder.