When speaking about pain, the Chinese are more likely to relate extreme pain with the heart because they believe the heart is the most critical and sensitive part of the body.
"Roughly speaking, the pain could be compared to a burst appendix, only more gradual," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University.
HAUNTING Chinese poems speaking of pain are still visible on the faded walls of the old detention centre on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.
Scientifically speaking, period pain broadly falls under two categories: primary and secondary dysmenorrhea (literally translating to "difficult menstrual flow").
Eligibility was determined by telephone interview and included age of at least 18 years, English-speaking, pain or stiffness in the knee or hip within the prior month, radiographic evidence of a definite osteophyte for the knee or hip or joint space narrowing for the hip, or confirmation from the subject of a physician's diagnosis of knee or hip OA.
Nonsacred verses are very rare in the Rigveda, but, when they occur, they can be quite powerful, as in a hymn of a gambler, who is speaking: It pains the gambler when he sees a woman, Another's wife, and their well-ordered household: He yokes these brown steeds early in the morning, And, when the fire is low, sinks down an outcast.
Sade's songs do speak of pain; if not battle cries, they are cries from somebody who has battled.
To speak of pain is to overcome struggle, and to advocate the truths of those still ostracised by the screaming mask.
Then to deafening cheers, Carrie P. Meek, a Democrat and black congresswoman from Miami, spoke: "The pain the governor feels is a self-inflicted wound".
Mr. King's guitar style, virtually from the outset, almost spoke the pain and hard-earned joys of a mean existence.
Mr. Kaufman can be sardonic about these conflicts ("My boyfriend isn't Jewish, oy vey!") but he also speaks with pain and understanding, even gentleness.
