Treatment of melancholia

Update Date: 2024-12-17 Source: Network

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At present, depression has become the second most important disease in the world which causes serious burden on human beings. The pain caused to patients and their families and the loss to society are incomparable with other diseases. Then some patients put forward the treatment of depression.

Treatment of melancholia

Treatment 1: acute stage treatment, acute episode of depression, treatment is mainly to control the disease, under normal circumstances, patients in 2-4 weeks of medication began to take effect, if the medication for 6-8 weeks is still invalid, should immediately communicate with the doctor, and use other mechanisms of drug treatment.

Treatment 2: consolidation period treatment, depression consolidation period at least in 4-6 months, this stage of the patient's disease is basically stable and improved, but can not be interrupted or stop taking medicine, because during this period of the patient's condition is not very stable, the recurrence rate of the disease is very high, should insist on taking medicine, generally can not reduce the dosage.

Treatment 3: maintenance treatment. The drug treatment strategy of patients with maintenance depression generally follows the following principles, that is, the maintenance treatment for the first onset patients should be 6 months to 8 months, younger, with psychotic symptoms, high risk of suicide, and patients with certain genetic tendency should adhere to the maintenance treatment for at least 2-3 years. The dose of maintenance treatment is based on the treatment dose in acute phase.

matters needing attention

Attention should be paid to this disease: 20 red jujubes, seven scallions, fried with water, can cure insomnia. Or with red jujube 30g, Huaimai 30g, Zhigancao 10g, water fried, drink soup to eat jujube. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of insomnia and depression pay attention to syndrome differentiation, this kind of medicated diet is dedicated to the treatment of emotional depression or excessive thinking, heart and spleen damage caused by restlessness and insomnia.