Food therapy is more important in clinical treatment, and the dietary therapy for depression is as follows: 1. Foods to nourish the heart and calm the mind, such as cinnamon, cypress seeds, and Yuan Zhi, can be added to food or drunk as tea; 2. Choose drugs to clear lung heat, such as lily, which can well clear lung heat to relieve the symptoms of sadness and grief caused by lung heat; 3. Patients with depression can choose foods to nourish the spleen for treatment. Chinese medicine believes that deficiency of both heart and spleen is the main type of depression, so foods that nourish the spleen are good for nourishing the heart and calming the mind and strengthening the spleen; if clinical mastery of food therapy is helpful for the treatment of depression, so clinical recommendations will be given to patients for foods such as cinnamon, lotus heart, lily and yam, which have the effects of calming the mind, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the heart.