How to treat neurotic depression with traditional Chinese Medicine

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Neurotic depression is an infinite disease of most friends. Depression is a common psychological disease, which will bring serious physical harm to patients. However, the difficulty of treatment is very high. After all, it is easy to relapse. The number of people suffering from depression is increasing every year. Traditional Chinese medicine has also studied depression. Let's take a look at the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of depression.

How to treat neurotic depression with traditional Chinese Medicine

First: depression is characterized by marked and persistent depression, decreased interest, slow thinking, pessimistic hopelessness, lack of initiative, self blame, poor diet, sleep disorders, paranoia, often accompanied by a variety of physical discomfort which is not consistent with the objective examination of the whole body. In serious cases, suicidal thoughts and behaviors may occur.

Second, depression belongs to the category of depression syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine. Depression syndrome is caused by emotional discomfort and qi stagnation, with depression, restlessness, chest fullness, or irritability and crying as the main clinical manifestations. The proposition of "depression" originated from the classical medical work "emperor's Internal Classic" more than 2000 years ago, in which a series of changes caused by emotional disorders, such as the blockage of viscera, meridians, Qi, blood and body fluid, diet and emotion, are all attributed to "depression". Emotional factors are regarded as an important reason leading to the imbalance of human Qi, so-called "those who are worried, Qi is blocked but can't". The pathogenesis of depression is stagnation of Qi, and stagnation of liver Qi is the core of stagnation of Qi. Therefore, it is said that "Qi should be treated first in the treatment of depression, and liver should be treated first in the regulation of Qi". In the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver belongs to wood. Therefore, the famous treatment of "wood stagnation reaches its destination" in the emperor's Canon of internal medicine has a strong guiding significance for clinical practice. Later generations of doctors mostly follow this method in the treatment of depression.

Third: the differentiation of symptoms and signs of traditional Chinese medicine has unique advantages. It unifies the symptoms and causes, analyzes the relationship between pathological changes and the characteristics of symptoms from many aspects and angles, understands the essence of diseases as a whole, seeks the causes according to the symptoms, and stresses that the treatment of diseases must be based on the root cause. For example, traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver controls blood storage and catharsis, and "women take the liver as the heaven". Women are often sad and sentimental, and their emotions are not satisfactory. In addition, women's unique production, abortion, menstrual disorders and so on are easy to cause the lack of Qi, blood and spirit, and lead to brain dystrophy, depression symptoms such as low emotion and slow thinking. According to the physiological function of the liver, combined with the characteristics of women, traditional Chinese medicine summarizes the treatment of soothing the liver, nourishing blood and regulating menstruation, which has important guiding significance and practical value for the treatment of female depression; adolescence and old age are the high incidence age of depression, in which the youth is the transition period from children to adulthood, the overall adjustment of the body occurs, the psychological quality is unstable, plus the study, employment and so on The elderly are prone to depression due to the gradual loss of liver and kidney due to their age, the decline of various physiological mechanisms, the deficiency of essence and Qi, the deficiency of essence and blood, the loss of brain and spirit, and the psychological sense of loss. According to the characteristics of liver and kidney essence deficiency of the elderly, TCM summarizes the treatment of Nourishing Yin, kidney and essence, which has important guiding significance and practical value for the treatment of senile depression; the congenital factors of constitution are called "congenital endowment" in TCM. Congenital endowment is insufficient, the physique is weak and sick, the patient is worried, and in the fierce competition environment, the spirit and body can not bear greater pressure, easy to form depression. According to the characteristics of weak constitution of people with congenital deficiency of endowment, traditional Chinese medicine summarized the treatment of strengthening spleen and kidney ("kidney is the origin of congenital deficiency, spleen is the origin of postnatal deficiency"). All of these have important guiding significance and practical value in clinic.

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In a word, TCM treatment of depression is to collect symptoms and signs from different individuals, through comprehensive analysis, syndrome differentiation and treatment, not only can improve the physical symptoms of patients with depression, but also take into account the physical conditioning of patients. Compared with western medicine, this treatment method has outstanding characteristics and obvious advantages.