| is the science that has understood these connections vividly both through animal and human experiments. The Central Nervous System (CNS) is disturbed if your mind is disturbed. Long standing persistent emotional surges and suppressions trigger off the loop of persistent excitement starts off chronic imbalance in their chemical regulation mechanism. Several chemicals have been identified (ACTH, cartisones, cytokines etc.) that are released in large quantities from different parts of this psycho- neuro-immune pathway that affect the immune system functions. One way you could understand this is, when there is a danger we fight to survive; if there is a long standing danger we become more and  more violent; we lose our discrimination, and start getting muddled; turn into a brute; forget the soft human qualities and get lost in acts of destroying the fellow human beings who may not be our enemies; this is what happens to your immune system. The most highly developed faculty of differentiating self from non-self is the first function to be knocked off, when you are chronically stressed. The killer instinct takes the upper hand and produces an autoimmune inflammation in the joints. Mrs. Jayanthi a 35 year old house wife come with typical rheumatoid arthritis of about 3 years duration. After she came |