XIA Menghuan, WANG Qingqi. TCM treatment of depression syndrome. [J]. Shanghai Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 53(3):28-32(2019)
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XIA Menghuan, WANG Qingqi. TCM treatment of depression syndrome. [J]. Shanghai Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 53(3):28-32(2019) DOI: 10.16305/j.1007-1334.2019.03.008.
Combined with the etiology, pathogenesis and syndrome characteristics of depression syndrome, this paper summarizes the methods of differentiation and treatment of depression syndrome based on ancient and modern literature. Depression syndrome can be treated from emotion, five zang-organs, yin and yang. It can also be treated by stages, disease differentiation and syndrome differentiation, special method and special prescription, and morphological treatment. Psychotherapy is indispensable in the treatment of depression syndrome. In addition, acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, taijiquan and other methods can play an auxiliary role in the treatment.