How to recognize and treat schizophrenia in Chinese medicine

Schizophrenia in Chinese medicine is mostly treated through the methods of looking, smelling, questioning and cutting, and then choosing the method of oral Chinese medicine after identification. Schizophrenia is the name of the disease in Western medicine, but in Chinese medicine, it is mostly categorized as epilepsy, mania, depression and other diseases. TCM diagnosis can be divided into liver depression and stagnation of qi (poor qi and blood transportation of the liver, emotional depression), phlegm and qi upheaval, imbalance of yin and yang, and qi and blood blockage, etc., which are caused by such causes, and are mostly treated by replenishing the deficiency, clearing the heat, invigorating the blood, resolving the phlegm, tranquilizing the spirit, and regulating the qi. Chinese medicine divides schizophrenia into many disease subtypes. The common ones are liver and kidney yin deficiency (deficiency of yin and fluid in the liver and kidney) type, liver depression and spleen deficiency type, spleen and kidney deficiency type, qi deficiency and blood stasis type, heart and spleen deficiency (weakness of the heart and spleen organs) type, etc. Different identification subtypes. Different drugs need to be chosen to treat the symptoms according to the different identification results. For example, the spleen deficiency and liver depression type is commonly treated with the addition and subtraction of Easy Pill. Liver qi stagnation (poor transportation of qi and blood in the liver, emotional depression) type, most often choose Chai Hu Shu Liver Pill plus reduction treatment. It is recommended to use medication to regulate the condition after identifying the symptoms under the guidance of a doctor.