The International Academic Exchange on Depressive syndrome
Time: Jan,2007
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General Description
Depressive syndrome is due to emotional upsets and stagnation of qi, clinically manifested as mental depression, restlessness, feeling of fullness and oppression over the chest, distending pain over the hypochondrium or irritability and
susceptibility to cry, or feeling of a foreign body in the throat.
The cause of depressive syndrome is emotional upsets. Pathogenically, if the liver fails to control the dispersion, the stagnant liver qi attacks the spleen, which impairs the spleen's function of transportation and transformation and the heart is deprived of nourishment. Thus, disorders of the viscera, yin, yang, qi and blood appear.
At the initial stage, depressive syndrome is attributed to the excess type. It is usually caused by stagnation of qi, complicated by blood stagnation, fire transformation, phlegm accumulation and food retention. But prolonged cases will change from the excess type into the deficiency type, and there may appear different pathological changes of the heart, spleen, liver or kidneys, as a result of different conditions of the involved zang-fu organs and of the consumption of qi, blood, yin or yang.
According to the clinical manifestations and its pathogensis, depressive syndrome is mainly seen in neurasthenia, hysteria and anxiety in western medicine, and also in perimenopausal syndrome and reactive psychosis.
Essentials for Diagnosis
(1) The major symptoms are mental depression, restlessness, distending pain over the chest and hypochondrium or irritability and susceptibility to cry, or feeling of a foreign body in the throat, mostly seen in young and middle-aged women.
(2) The patient usually has a history of emotional upsets, such as melancholy, anxiety, sorrow, terror and resentment. Its recurrence is closely related with the emotional factors.
(3) Examinations of various systems and laboratory examinations are normal. Organic diseases should be excluded.
Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment
At the initial stage, depressive syndrome is mostly of the excess type, and then the prolonged case changes from the excess to the deficiency type or the deficiency- excess type. The principle of the treatment is to regulate qi circulation. The case of the excess type should be treated by soothing liver qi and alleviating mental depression, and assisted by promoting blood circulation, resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis, clearing away heat and promoting digestion; the case of the deficiency type should be treated by nourishing the heart, tranquilizing the mind and nourishing the heart and kidneys.
1. Stagnation of Liver Qi
Chief Manifestations:Mental depression, restlessness, feeling of fullness and oppression over the chest, distending and wandering pain in the hypochondrium, abdominal flatulence, eructation, loss of appetite, irregular bowel movements, thin and greasy tongue coating, and wiry pulse.
Therapeutic Methods:To soothe liver qi, alleviate mental depression and regulate middle energizer qi.
Prescription: Chuan xiong, Ginseng, Rhizoma Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria, etc.
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2. Stagnant Qi Transforming into Fire
Chief Manifestations: Irritability, distention and fullness over the chest and hypochondrium, dry mouth and bitter taste, or headache, red eyes, tinnitus, or gastric upset and acid regurgitation, constipation, red tongue with yellow coating, wiry and rapid pulse.
Therapeutic Methods. To soothe liver qi, alleviate mental depression and clear away liver fire.
Prescription: Fulin, Ginseng, Rhizoma Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria, etc.
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This two kinds of products not only can help you to soothe liver qi, alleviate mental depression and clear away liver fire but also Nourishing the liver and kidney, boosting the immune system, promoting the blood circulation, improving the physical condition and metabolism, reducing toxic substances, detoxifying the body. Restoring the balance of Yin and Yang and so on.
3. Stagnation of Blood
Chief Manifestations: Mental depression, irritability, headache, insomnia, amnesia, or pain over the chest and hypochondium, or chills or fever of some part of the body, dark purple tongue or with petechia and ecchymosis, wiry or unsmooth pulse.
Therapeutic Methods: To activate blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis, regulate qi and alleviate mental depression.
Prescription: Dang gui, Ginseng, Rhizoma Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria, etc.
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Dang gui herbal tea together with multi-functional Tonic Pills to Invigorate Yin.
This two kinds of products not only can help you to regulate qi and alleviate mental depression but also Nourishing the liver and kidney, boosting the immune system, promoting the blood circulation, improving the physical condition and metabolism, reducing toxic substances, detoxifying the body. Restoring the balance of Yin and Yang and so on.
4. Stagnation of Qi and Retention of Phlegm
Chief Manifestations: Mental depression, feeling of oppression over the chest, distension and fullness over the hypochondrium, feeling of a foreign body in the throat with difficulty to swallow or spit out, white and greasy tongue coating, wiry and smooth pulse. This syndrome, in TCM, is also known as "mei he qi" (globus hysteri-CUS).
Therapeutic Methods: To promote circulation of qi, alleviate mental depression, resolve phlegm and relieve stagnation.
Prescription: Luo Han Guo, Ginseng, Rhizoma Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria, etc.
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This two kinds of products not only can help you to regulate qi and alleviate mental depression, reduces toxic substances, resolve phlegm and relieve stagnation but also Nourishing the liver and kidney, boosting the immune system, promoting the blood circulation, improving the physical condition and metabolism, reducing toxic substances, detoxifying the body and restoring the balance of Yin and Yang and so on.
5. Mental Confusion
Chief Manifestations. Restlessness, trance, suspiciousness, timidness, sentimentality, liability to cry, changeable moods, or frequent stretching and yawning, or unrestrained flourishing and shouting, pale tongue, and wiry pulse.
Therapeutic Methods: To relieve the acute case with herbs of sweet taste and lubricant nature, and tranquilize the mind by nourishing the heart.
Prescription: Ginseng, Rhizoma Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria, etc.
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Ginseng herbal tea together with multi-functional Tonic Pills to Invigorate Yin.
This two kinds of products not only can help you to relieve the acute case with herbs of sweet taste and lubricant nature, and tranquilize the mind by nourishing the heart but also Nourishing the liver and kidney, boosting the immune system, promoting the blood circulation, improving the physical condition and metabolism, reducing toxic substances, detoxifying the body and restoring the balance of Yin and Yang and so on.
6. Deficiency of the Heart and Spleen
Chief Manifestations. Suspiciousness, dizziness, listlessness, palpitation, timidness, insomnia, amnesia, poor appetite, lusterless complexion, pale tongue with thin and white coating, and thready pulse.
Therapeutic Methods. To invigorate the spleen, nourish the heart and replenish qi and blood.
Prescription: Dang Gui, Ginseng, Rhizoma Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria, etc.
Chinese Patent Drugs:
Dang gui herbal tea together with multi-functional Tonic Pills to Invigorate Yin.
This two kinds of products not only can help you to regulate qi and alleviate mental depression, to invigorate the spleen, nourish the heart and replenish qi and blood, but also Nourishing the liver and kidney, boosting the immune system, promoting the blood circulation, improving the physical condition and metabolism, reducing toxic substances, detoxifying the body. Restoring the balance of Yin and Yang and so on.
7. Consumption of Heart Yin
Chief Manifestations: Restlessness, palpitation, amnesia, insomnia, dreamfulness, burning sensation of the palms, soles and chest, night sweating, dryness of the mouth and throat, red and dry tongue, thready and rapid pulse.
Therapeutic Methods: To nourish yin and blood, tonify the heart and tranquilize the mind.
Prescription: Ginseng, Rhizoma Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria, etc.
Chinese Patent Drugs:
Multi-functional Tonic Pills to Invigorate Yin
This kind of pills can help you to Nourishing the liver and kidney, boosting the immune system, promoting the blood circulation, improving the physical condition and metabolism, reducing toxic substances, detoxifying the body, and to nourish yin and blood, tonify the heart and tranquilize the mind, Restoring the balance of Yin and Yang and so on.
8. Consumption of Liver Yin
Chief Manifestations:Restlessness, irritability, dizziness, tinnitus, dryness of the eyes, photophobia, blurred vision, or headache and feeling of distention in the head, flushed face, red eyes, dry and red tongue, wiry and thready or rapid pulse.
Therapeutic Methods:To nourish yin essence and invigorate tile liver and kidney.
Prescription: Ginseng,Rhizoma Rehmanniae Praeparata ,Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria, Semen Nelumbinis, Os Draconis, Semen Euryales, etc.
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Multi-Functional Tonic Pills to Invigorate Yin together with Pills to Invigorate Yang
This two kinds of pills can help you to Nourishing the liver and kidney, boosting the immune system, promoting the blood circulation, improving the physical condition and metabolism, and regaining vigor from weakness and fatigue. Reinforcing the kidney and strengthening the body, benefiting the vital energy and promoting the production of body fluid, improving sexual endurance.
