This research presents findings from a corpus linguistic study analysing the elabo ration and relative frequency of anger, fear and sadness metaphors and metonymies encoding health disorders. The aim of the research is to see how languages reflect the real world and to what extent clinical findings support cultural folk medical knowledge. The linguistic data show that various health disorders are encoded in the languages. The expressions with the heart are the most frequent both in English and in Lithuanian. However, Lithuanian uses several times more HEART expressions than English does. The results correlate with the results of the research from different disciplines. The sta tistics shows that tendency in languages is consistent with the general health situation in cultures. In a way our linguistic expressions may give a hint of what disease a certain emotion may cause.