Does Chinese medicine work for anxiety disorders?

Anxiety disorders, especially mild ones, as well as concurrent or accompanying symptoms of anxiety, should be very effective with Chinese herbs. Especially in mild anxiety, it is often caused by liver depression and qi stagnation or liver depression and fire, and at this time, targeted conditioning with herbs is very effective. Patients with anxiety disorders often sleep poorly or have difficulty falling asleep, shallow sleep, or easily wake up early, dreamy, easily startled, easily awake, at this time will use a lot of sedative drugs, the effect is very good, such as sour date palm, mother of pearl, dragon bone and amber have very good sedative and anti-anxiety effect. Not only compound but also single herbs have very good anti-anxiety effect, Bai Shao has very good anti-anxiety effect, as well as Xu Changqing and Acanthopanax have very good effect. It can also change the concomitant symptoms of patients, such as poor appetite and constipation, which can significantly change the somatic symptoms of patients after using Chinese herbs. In this way, the patient’s treatment compliance and treatment efficacy, as well as the patient’s quality of life, can be significantly improved. Overall, the effect of herbal medicine varies according to the type of anxiety.