First of all, we need to know what depression is.
Depression: In modern medicine, body, emotion and consciousness are treated separately. Body and mind are considered as two things. The two are interrelated and influence each other, which is called psychosomatic correlation or dualism. But body and mind are actually one thing in Chinese medicine, called the unity of form and spirit. The spirit of traditional Chinese medicine includes heart and mind. Depression, which is often said in modern medicine, is actually due to lack of energy in many cases.
As we all know, even if you are a very active and energetic person at ordinary times, if you stay awake for three days in a row, I will give you two meals for three days and then let you do a lot of work. Will you still be energetic and positive at that time? When our body's energy is low enough. Our spirit, consciousness and mental functioning ability will decline. In this state, he actually becomes a "compressed person", and his form, qi, spirit or body, mind and mind are all compressed. In the compressed state, his time and space, his society, his life, and even everything around him, which he can contact and is willing to contact, are also compressed. In this way, he will enter a low-level cycle inside and outside, but he may not realize it himself. Once in this state, he will go downhill as a whole. Then there will be different types of depression.
So how does Chinese medicine treat depression?
1, Psychotherapy: Psychotherapy of depression has also been attached importance by physicians in past dynasties. "On Laozi in Souwentang" pointed out: "If the spirit does not advance, it will not be cured, so it will not be cured, so it will not be cured." It is difficult to understand that mental activity directly affects the course and prognosis of the disease, but it is ineffective to rely solely on medicine stone. Therefore, the treatment of depression must be accompanied by mental conditioning. Because the etiology of depression is complex and diverse, the treatment should be flexible and varied, and it varies from person to person, so Chinese medicine pays attention to the dialectical treatment of depression.
2. Acupuncture therapy: Since 1950s, after decades of research and observation, electroacupuncture has achieved reliable curative effect, and the clinical effective rate can reach 75.2%. Acupuncture at Tang Yin, Baihui, Dazhui, Shen Zhu, Zhongshan and Juque mainly treats depression, and the total effective rate is 90%. Compared with amitriptyline, there is no statistical difference, and it is observed that acupuncture can make patients' EEG activities tend to be normal, and acupuncture therapy is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine in treating depression.
3. Chinese medicine therapy: according to the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment, Chinese medicine divides depression into two categories: deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome; Or it can be divided into several syndrome types, such as stagnation of liver qi, stagnation of fire for a long time, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, deficiency of heart and spleen, and hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency. The primary causes of qi stagnation, dampness and phlegm, food stagnation and heat depression are mostly empirical, and the treatment is mainly to soothe the liver and regulate qi and relieve depression. There is a saying in the "Syndrome of Replenishing Depression": "Although there are many depression diseases, they are all due to poor qi movement, and the method should first be smooth." This method is not only the universal law at the beginning of depression, but also the most basic and important law in the treatment of depression. Chinese medicine usually uses Chinese medicine therapy to treat depression.