Can Panic and Anxiety Disorder be Managed with Herbal Medicine?

Panic and anxiety disorder belongs to the category of “depression” in traditional Chinese medicine, and depression can be regulated by Chinese medicine. Depending on the type of depression, it can be categorized into heart deficiency and timidity type, phlegm-heat disturbance type, liver and kidney yin deficiency type, etc. Different types are treated with different Chinese medicines. 1. Liver qi stagnation syndrome: see mental depression, emotional restlessness, chest fullness, chest and ribs (chest and ribs area) distension and pain, pain in no fixed place, epigastric stuffy belching (hiccup), etc., can be used to Chai Hu Shu Liver San plus subtractions. 2. Qi depresses the fire certificate: sees the temperament anxious and irritable, the chest and hypochondrium distension, the mouth is bitter and dry, or the headache, the eye is red, the ear tinnitus and so on, may use the gardenia to get away with loose loose loose loose loose loose plus the reduction. 3. phlegm and qi stagnation evidence: see spirit depression, chest stuffy, coercion and rib distension and fullness, pharyngeal as if there is something obstruction, swallowing can’t, cackling can’t, etc., can use half summer and thick park soup plus subtraction. 4. Heart-spirit loss of nourishment syndrome: see mental trance, restlessness, suspicious and easily startled, sadness and sorrow, good crying, moody, or when the lack of stretching, or hand dancing, cursing and shouting, etc., can be used in Ganmai Dazao Tang plus subtractions. 5. Deficiency of the heart and the spleen: dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, poor appetite, and lack of color, etc., add and subtract Gui Spleen Tang. 6. Yin deficiency of the heart and kidney: emotional restlessness, palpitation, forgetfulness, insomnia, dreaminess, heat in the heart (heat in the hearts of the hands and feet, and self-consciousness of heat in the heart and chest), night sweating (sweating abnormally after falling asleep, but sweating stops after waking up), and dryness of the mouth and throat, etc., can be used as Tianwang Xinxin Dan (Heavenly King’s Heart Replenishing Dan) combined with Liufidi Huangwan (Six-flavored Di Huang Pill) with additions or subtractions. It is recommended that the patient should consult a doctor in time and be treated with medication under the doctor’s guidance.