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The link between the liver and melancholy is not only found in Chinese medicine.
melancholy (n.)
c.1303, "condition characterized by sullenness, gloom, irritability," from O.Fr. melancholie, from L.L. melancholia, from Gk. melankholia "sadness," lit. "black bile," from melas (gen. melanos) "black" (see melanin) + khole "bile" (see Chloe). Medieval physiology attributed
Depression to excess of "black bile," a secretion of the spleen and one of the body's four "humors." Adj. sense of "sullen, gloomy" is from 1526; sense of "deplorable" (of a fact or state of things) is from 1710.
(from the online etymology dictionary)
Personally I tend to be tired and listless following flushes, with one exception where I had a burst of energy the following day.
I attribute this to my problems with
Depression rather than the flushes themselves, and see the flushes as part of an eventual solution to this and other problems I have which all seem to be connected to the liver.
The day after the flush is the worst for me and then my mood gets back to normal. The difference being that it is on an upward curve rather than a downward spiral.
Hope you feel better,
Kirsten