This article mainly explores the relationship between “Bentun” and depression syndrome. It is considered that the manifestation of “Bentun” fits the specialty of depression syndrome; that the etiology of “Bentun” has the features of emotional factors; that the susceptible population of “Bentun” has the natural endowment of depression syndrome, and that the pathogenesis of “Bentun” is mostly related to the autonomic nervous dysfunction induced by psychological factors. All these description prompts that “Bentun” is essentially a part of the depression syndrome.