Depression, known as depression syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine, is a type of disease characterized by depressed mood and stagnation of qi and organs. The main clinical characteristics are depression, restlessness, chest fullness, flank distension and pain, or easy anger and crying, or a foreign body sensation in the pharynx. The occurrence is closely related to emotional imbalance and physical factors.
Since I treated the first case of depression, whenever I hear someone say that depression is not curable, I will listen to it as a joke, whether depression is not cured, is it a real thing, or is it an illusion created by some people for profit, this is a question worth considering.
If someone has been taking medicine to "control" since the beginning of the disease, it is indeed becoming more and more difficult to do, because the symptoms are not cured, and it is easy to become stupid after a long time, and they don't want to move.
I have received a patient in the outpatient clinic, 34 years old, depressed for 6 years, has been taking antidepressant medication, but his mental state is still good and bad, and even his body has changed greatly
Diagnosis: difficult to control emotions, poor sleep, fatigue and fatigue, pale red tongue and thin moss, and stringy pulse.
The syndrome differentiation is the evidence of yin deficiency and low blood, and the treatment is to nourish yin and nourish blood;Proposed recipes: Bupleurum chinensis, skullcap, ginger banxia, prince ginseng, boiled licorice, cinnamon branches, fried white peony, raw land, lily, chicken blood vine, raw keel, raw oysters, decoction in water.
The result?
After taking half a month, the stool is smooth, and the mood is showing signs of improvement, but the sleep is still not good, I have nightmares, go to the cinnamon branch and fried white peony, add gall Nanxing, Yujin, I can sleep peacefully after two months, the language is clear, and the physical activity is much better than before. Consolidate for a month, and no more repetition.
Why is that?
In fact, the patient is a blood deficiency, a mixture of deficiency and reality, coupled with the unfavorable liver and gallbladder cardinal, qi stagnation and phlegm obstruction, too much thought, depressed mood, sadness and crying and other depression syndromes, over time the five internal organs qi and blood deficiency, qi depression turns into fire, restlessness, and difficulty sleeping at night.
The main side is to add and subtract Bupleurum Guizhi decoction to turn cardinals, smooth qi, replenish qi and blood, combine lilies, and benefit yin and clear heatChicken blood vine blood nourishes blood, relaxes muscles and activates keel, oysters calm the heart, take floating yang, cure irritability, and help sleep. The second diagnosis patient had nightmares, and the signs of qi depression and phlegm obstruction were more obvious, so Xiao Chai Hu Tang turned to Shaoyang Cardinal as the main one, and added gallbladder Nanxing and Yujin to clear heat and dissolve phlegm and calm shock, and relieve depressionThe follow-up examination showed that the cardinal gradually improved, the camp and health gradually relaxed, the mood and sleep problems basically disappeared, and the depression syndrome improved.