Name of prescription: Chaihu decoction Gulong Muli decoction
Symptoms and characteristics: after breast cancer surgery, the patient is lack of physical strength and energy, depressed, pessimistic, self-incriminating, and even suicidal.
Longyalong soothes the liver and calms the nerves; Huang Cen, Pinellia ternata, and Bupleurum root clear liver and relieve depression;
Poria cocos and codonopsis pilosula have the effects of calming the nerves, strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis; Cortex Albizziae, Radix Curcumae and Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae can relieve depression, promote blood circulation and soothe the nerves;
Poria cocos, polygala tenuifolia and Acorus gramineus are determined to soothe the nerves; Caulis Polygoni Multiflori and fried jujube kernels soothe the nerves and nourish the heart;
The combination of various drugs can soothe the liver and relieve depression, remove damp heat and hide the soul, but it can cure various diseases;
Chaihu Gu Jialong Oyster Decoction comes from Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which is mainly used to treat chest and hypochondriac pain, typhoid fever, panic, irritability and delirium. It has been used for patients with hypertension, neurosis and epilepsy.
Breast cancer patients undergo surgical resection, which leads to functional loss and physical defects, and then produces different degrees of depression, which seriously affects their mental health and treatment process.
With the progress of medical technology, the survival time of breast cancer patients has been significantly prolonged, but the incidence of depression among breast cancer patients diagnosed for the first time is as high as 32%, and the disability caused by depression ranks in the forefront of all diseases, so antidepressant treatment has been widely valued by clinicians.
Fluoxetine is a commonly used antidepressant in clinic, but the price of using chemical drugs to treat tumor depression is high, and it will cause instability of vital signs, symptoms of digestive system, difficulty in falling asleep, rebound after stopping taking drugs and other problems. Traditional Chinese medicine is more acceptable to patients because of its low price, mild effect and few side effects.
Tumor depression is an emotional disease in traditional Chinese medicine. Its etiology involves patients' fear of tumor and treatment, and it is related to patients' educational level, family and social life pressure and patients' psychological adjustment level. Therefore, multi-target and multi-level Chinese medicine has more advantages in treating this disease caused by psychological, physiological and social factors.
There are many syndromes of depression, which are mixed with excess and deficiency, with liver depression and spleen deficiency syndrome and heart and spleen deficiency syndrome being the most common.