What does depression and anxiety belong to in TCM?

There is no name for depression in TCM, and depression is classified as a depression in TCM. Depression is a mental and psychological disorder, mainly related to the abnormal secretion of neurotransmitters in the human body, patients can be depressed, unwilling to speak, lazy, not emotional, and even sometimes may have extreme thoughts, more depressed patients may also manifest a series of symptoms such as chills and cold intolerance. For depression, Western medicine usually uses antidepressant medications**.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that depressive symptoms are often related to the liver, so depression is classified as a depressive disease. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver is an important organ in the human body, and the liver has a draining function, which is reflected in the aspect of being able to relieve qi, that is, the important subtle substances in the human body, that is, the circulation of qi needs to rely on the liver to achieve it, and at the same time, the liver also has the role of regulating emotions, maintaining various emotions, such as whether the mood is good or bad is actually closely related to the liver's role in regulating emotions. Once the liver's excretion function and mood regulation function are reduced, patients may show a range of symptoms of depression.

The main pathological mechanism is caused by liver qi stagnation and liver qi discomfort, and then there will be poor qi, which affects phlegm, fire, food and dampness in the body, and stasis appears.

It has been proved that poor qi and liver qi stasis can cause dampness and stasis, so it is necessary to use drugs to strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness**; Poor qi can also cause phlegm and stasis, use warm bile decoction**; There are also some poor qi organs can also cause food accumulation called food stasis symptoms, often use Bohol pills to help digestion to**;

If the gas is not smooth, it will also turn into fire, and it is empirical evidence to use drugs to reduce fire**. Frequent stagnation of qi and organs leads to the blockage of the human body's meridians, and there will also be false evidence, such as the certificate of mental malnourishment, using sweet wheat jujube soup to **;

Heart and spleen deficiency syndrome, use Gui Spleen Soup**; Heart and kidney yin deficiency syndrome, use Tianwang Buxin Pill and other drugs**.

Whether TCM is pseudoscience or not, we do not participate in the debate. However, can TCM ** anxiety disorder? We have to be clear about this.

Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, are all mental disorders. The Mental Health Law of the People's Republic of China clearly stipulates that mental disorders can only be diagnosed by a psychiatric practitioner, that is, Chinese medicine has no legal qualifications to diagnose and ** anxiety disorders.

Hello dear dear, anxiety disorder: it is an anxiety neurosis, which is manifested as unexplained restlessness, anxiety and tension, accompanied by dizziness, dyspnea, chest tightness, palpitations, and even hand tremors, sweating, frequent urination, and excessive urine hunger;

2. Depression: called depressive disorder, with significant and persistent depressed mood as the main clinical manifestation, often accompanied by depressed mood, depression, low self-esteem, depression, reluctance to contact with the outside world, and even suicidal, self-harming thoughts or behaviors, severe cases hallucinations, delusions and other symptoms.

Anxiety disorders and depression have intersections in clinical manifestations, and traditional Chinese medicine boils down to lily disease, dirty irritability, depression and other categories. 1.Liver Qi stagnation type.

The main manifestations are: anxiety, irritability, self-feeling of swelling and pain in both flanks, pain and indefiniteness, and always wanting to sigh.

**Principle: Relieve liver and depression.

Prescription drugs: Bupleurum Shugansan plus or minus, using drugs such as Citrus aurantium, Bupleurum chinensis, Paeonia, Xiangfu, Chuanxiong, tangerine peel, licorice, etc.

2.Hepatobiliary fire type.

Manifested as irritability, dry mouth, bitter mouth, insomnia, dreams, constipation, tinnitus, deafness, etc.

**Principle: Cleanse the liver and relieve fire.

Prescription medication: Gentian Liver Decoction plus or minus, using traditional Chinese medicine such as gentian, gardenia, skullcap, mutong, zexiao, psyllium, bupleurum, licorice, angelica, shengdi, etc.

3.Phlegm stagnation type.

Manifested as: anxiety, chest tightness, chest and flank swelling and pain, feeling that something is blocked in the throat, unable to swallow or spit out, but the examination can find that there is no blockage, which is more common in young and middle-aged women.

**Principle: Dissolve phlegm and dissipate knots.

Prescription medication: add or subtract phlegm decoction or warm bile decoction; Use traditional Chinese medicines such as ginger nanxing, banxia, citrus aurantium, poria cocos, orange red, calamus, ginseng, bamboo root, licorice, etc.

4.Phlegm-heat upperfusion.

Manifested as irritability, palpitations, fear and restlessness, phlegm, nausea and vomiting, insomnia and dreams, bitterness and stickiness, chest tightness, dizziness and brain swelling.

**Principle: Clear away heat and dissolve phlegm.

Prescription medication: Coptis chinensis warm bile decoction plus or minus, using traditional Chinese medicine such as Coptis chinensis, Zhuru, Citrus aurantium, Banxia, tangerine peel, licorice, ginger, etc.

5.Phlegm and stasis interjunction type.

Elderly patients with anxiety disorders, with a long course of disease, anxiety, irritability, dry stool, yellow and red urine, upset and insomnia, obesity, bitter mouth, chest tightness and chest pain.

**Principle: dissolve phlegm and disperse knots, promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis.

Prescription drugs: Xuefu Zhuyu decoction plus or minus; Traditional Chinese medicines such as peach kernel, safflower, angelica, rehmannia root, hyssop, ligusticum chuanxiong, platycodon, red peony, citrus aurantium, licorice, bupleurum and so on.

6.Heart and spleen deficiency type.

It is manifested by excessive thinking, a long course of anxiety disorder, accompanied by dizziness, fatigue, panic and timidity, insomnia and forgetfulness, loss of appetite, and yellowish or pale complexion.

**Principle: Strengthen the spleen and heart, nourish qi and blood.

Prescription drugs: Gui Spleen Decoction, Bazhen Decoction plus or minus, the use of traditional Chinese medicine such as ginseng, astragalus, atractylodes, Poria cocos, licorice, angelica, Chuanxiong, white peony, Yuanzhi, sour jujube kernel, longan meat, etc.

Patients have both depression and anxiety, which is a type of bipolar affective disorder, which is equivalent to the syndrome of madness, epilepsy and depression in traditional Chinese medicine. According to the main symptoms at the time of onset, TCM carries out syndrome differentiation**: 1. Liver Qi stagnation syndrome:

**Mainly to soothe the liver and relieve depression, regulate qi and smooth the middle, and use Bupleurum to soothe the liver or add or subtract from Xiaoyaosan; 2. Mental loss certificate: ** Mainly to moisten the urgency, nourish the heart and calm the nerves, and use sweet wheat jujube soup to add or subtract; 3. Phlegm and fire disturb the divine evidence: ** It is mainly based on calming the heart of the cong sect to cleanse phlegm, clear the liver and relieve fire, and use pig iron to drink and Mengshi to roll phlegm pills to add or subtract; 4. Fire Sheng Injury Yin Evidence:

** To nourish yin and reduce fire, calm the nerves, and use two yin decoction and amber to nourish the heart of the pill plus or minus. If the patient is in an anxiety or manic episode, Western medicine is used**. The condition enters the period of stability and destruction and the maintenance period of seepage Qinghe, and Chinese medicine can participate**.

Anxiety and depression are emotional problems, and the dialectic of Chinese medicine is liver depression, or liver depression and qi stagnation.

Some anxiety disorders have TCM depression syndrome, but depression is the TCM depression syndrome. It is recommended to go to outdoor activities and exercise more often, relax your mood a few times, and try to do a lot of things that you are interested in. Make a lot of friends, and you can organize a lot of sports, picnics, badminton and other sports after a break.

Don't hold it in your heart if you have something, learn to talk about it! Hope to help the chain balance and to you!

Anxiety and depression belong to the category of "depression syndrome" in traditional Chinese medicine, which is caused by liver loss and leakage, spleen loss of health, heart loss, and imbalance of yin and yang, qi and blood in the viscera.

1.Liver Qi stagnation (poor qi and blood circulation of the liver, emotional depression) syndrome: You can take Bupleurum Shugansan for **, which can alleviate symptoms such as mental depression, nervousness, frequent sighing, and chest fullness.

2.Qi depression and fire syndrome: You can take Dan Yu Xiaoyaosan for **, which can relieve symptoms such as anxiety and irritability, chest and flank fullness, dry mouth and crying, headache and red eyes, 3

Phlegm stagnation syndrome: You can take Banxia Magnolia decoction for **, which can relieve symptoms such as mental depression, chest congestion, and foreign body infarction in the throat.

4.Mental deprivation certificate: You can take Ganmai jujube soup for **, which can relieve symptoms such as mental trance, anxiety, suspiciousness, and irritability.

5.Heart and spleen deficiency (weakness of the heart and spleen): You can take Gui Spleen Pills for **, which can alleviate symptoms such as mental depression, fatigue (lack of energy), fatigue, and loss of appetite.

6.Heart and kidney yin deficiency syndrome: You can take Tianwang Buxin Pill for **, which can alleviate symptoms such as anxiety, palpitations (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by palpitation), dizziness, insomnia and dreams.

Traditional Chinese medicine does not have a name for anxiety disorder, but classifies anxiety as a symptom of depression. Anxiety disorders are mainly a type of disease caused by various emotional disturbances, such as mental disorders and qi and blood disorders. For the characteristics of patients with anxiety disorders, one is that the brain is unfavorable, and the other is the imbalance of qi and blood.

In the clinical process, it can also be found that different patients with anxiety disorders will have different types of symptoms. In general, for patients with anxiety disorders, the more common symptoms are heart and gallbladder qi deficiency, heart and spleen deficiency, yin deficiency and internal heat, and phlegm and heat internal resistance. In addition, the common symptoms of anxiety disorders include blood stasis and obstruction type.

In patients with anxiety disorders, some different prescriptions will be taken according to the different types of symptoms to help patients relieve these symptoms. In addition, if you want to carry out ** on patients with anxiety disorders, you can also take some non-drug ** methods, such as auricular acupuncture and acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main pathogenesis of anxiety disorder is the loss of viscera, or for phlegm, heat, congestion and disturbance of the heart, the main lesion site is in the heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys, gallbladder and other viscera, because the disease is mainly based on deficiency, and the real symptoms are relatively few.

According to its clinical manifestations, it is generally divided into models, the first is heart deficiency and timidity, the second is heart, spleen and blood deficiency, the third is yin deficiency and internal heat, the fourth is phlegm and heat disturbance type, and the fifth is phlegm and blood internal resistance.

One of the symptoms that is often talked about in Chinese medicine is depressionDepression actually refers to a physical disease, mainly due to problems with the liver and other organs, resulting in a weak physique, and coupled with a low mood, it leads to poor breathing, decreased liver function, and the whole person's mentality has become very poor. Such symptoms are manifested as depression, which is caused by poor physical fitness and psychological problems, and can be carried out through relevant medicine at this time.

Depression does not mean depression in the modern sense, but refers to problems with the liver, because the liver plays a very important role in the regulation of human qi and blood and the regulation of mood. When there is a problem with the liver, it is coupled with a bad mood. If you are irritable and crying, and if you fluctuate greatly, then you will feel uncomfortable.

Such symptoms will manifest as depression, and at this time, it is necessary to use some drugs to clear the liver and improve one's mood. In this way, you can ensure that you are in a good state, and you can also better live your life.

If your symptoms are not particularly urgent, you can use Chinese medicine to better recuperate your body, and from the theory of Chinese medicine, you pay great attention to people's emotional conditioning. Therefore, in daily life, you should also pay attention to the knowledge of health preservation, and also pay attention to adjust your mood, don't always sulk, and don't get angry often, so as to ensure your physical state. Moreover, the best methods of traditional Chinese medicine can also avoid the production of some ***.

People must pay attention to the relationship between emotions and their bodies in daily life, if there is a problem with emotions, there will be some pain in the body. Moreover, emotional and physical pain are mutually reinforcing, so it is important to manage emotions well.

Traditional Chinese medicine refers to the 6 depression, fire, dampness, qi, food, phlegm, and blood depression, almost all Western medicine viruses include them, there is no special treatment for any disease, generally there is no such thing as hyperactivity of liver qi, only qi knots, qi reversal.

It refers to depression in Western medicine, which is a kind of mental illness that affects physical health.

The body is blocked by qi and blood, and the humidity is relatively large, so you need to strengthen exercise and eat a little more liquid food.