In recent years, the word “depression” has appeared more and more frequently in news reports, and the incidence of depression has increased significantly, with those caught in it suffering so much that some have jumped off buildings to find relief. What kind of pain is comparable to this leap? The current explanation of the causes of depression is: “To date, the etiology of depression is not clear, but it is certain that many biological, psychological and social environmental factors are involved in the pathogenesis of depression. Biological factors mainly involve genetic, neurobiochemical, neuroendocrine, and neuroregenerative aspects”. This very vague explanation makes people think of Tai Chi pushing hands and is doubly depressing. Since it cannot be explained from the Western medical point of view, we can explain the causes of depression from the theory of essence and spirit in Chinese medicine, so as to find a better way to treat it. I. What is essence and spirit? The sky has three treasures, the sun, the moon and the stars; the earth has three treasures, water, fire and wind; and human beings have three treasures, essence, energy and spirit. It can be seen that essence and energy are the three elements of life. The food we eat is transformed into glucose, protein and fat stored in our blood and muscles, which is the material basis of energy, that is, “essence”. Just like a car, the gasoline added is equivalent to essence, and when it burns in the engine, it transforms into qi, which provides power, and the state in which the car gallops is God. Therefore, qi is born of essence, and god is the highest level of qi. We often talk about “Shen qi”, “concentration”, “brilliant”, “walking”, but rarely think about what “Shen qi” means. Think carefully, what is “God”? We can’t see or feel God, and we can’t quantify it according to the thinking of Western medicine, but we can’t live without it every moment. ”From the moment of conception, God is present. That’s why the old people say that in the first trimester of pregnancy, don’t talk to outsiders because they are afraid of disturbing the fetus’ God and “not being able to sit down” and causing miscarriage. When people around you know that you are pregnant, they will be very excited and take extra care of you, and the Qi generated will affect the fetus. If you tell others after three months, it does not matter. This refers to the innate God, which needs to be constantly maintained and replenished by us later in life. When a person is born, he or she carries the innate God, which is gathered at this time, and a child can easily focus on one thing, “Concentrate on the qi to be soft, can it be like a baby?” (Laozi? Chapter 10 Xuande”). But the hardships of adulthood gradually break up one’s God. If one is old and can still “accumulate the essence of the whole spirit” and easily focus on one thing, it is the highest level of health care, not only can one live a long life, but also easily make extraordinary achievements. This is the highest level of health care. Essence is the material basis for the creation of God. When a person is embryonic, he or she is head down for the development of the brain marrow, spinal cord, and bone marrow, which are the innate essence, and when he or she is born, he or she is head up and slowly consumes this essence. This is equivalent to the hourglass, when pregnant head down, fill the head with essence, after birth head up, and when the essence is leaked out, life is over. And the postnatal essence refers to fat, sweat, snot, phlegm, semen, blood, etc., which needs to be replenished by the postnatal grains, etc. In ancient Chinese medicine, the innate essence produced by the gas is “screwed to protect the crippling sodium of the mythical animal protection executive hissing van coal gentile plant gun surging the value of the coal Rui plastic O endure glistening copy screwed to protect the fruit rate of pry pelican visit to screw the conservative choked argonco boil stool cha ounce Zhen cons value Zhu Miao ne and restore the banner of the caustic soil to restore the treatment of 扌蔚 sodium 6 crippling mythical glistening copy of the mythical animal protection arc choked to live in the cons Zheng Cli Cliü Guangdong Gan Chen blowing mode choked crippling Lotus hooked copy K dizzy Qian Haumao play the royal shallow even cupboard forgiveness N Qian Ren repatriation Nao The main reason for this is the fact that the people of the country are the recipients of the 616 posthumous gadgets. The other important way to maintain the essence is to avoid heat and cold. The winter is the season of nurturing and hiding, in the cold environment, the mind is no longer dry, the coup closed, the expansion muscle contraction, not easy to sweat, spermatorrhea, sperm leakage. God has given the northerners winter for nourishing sperm. There is no winter in the south, so you need to make duck soup often to nourish the yin, if it is chicken soup will not play a role in nourishing the yin, because chicken is hot and dispersing. The best living environment in winter is “cold house and hot bed”, so sleep well, but now due to heating, indoor heat, sweating at night, artificially created a “if there is love outside” the summer environment; there are people in the winter to strengthen exercise, sauna, “wine as pulp”. “This is “against the yin and yang”, so that “winter does not hide the essence”, “winter injury to the essence “, when spring comes, the bottom is not enough, not enough power to spread, “spring will be sick plague. We can have a lot of experience by carefully examining a spring wild lettuce, a bitter lettuce, astringent in autumn, winter nourishing and hiding, fattening the roots, waiting for the spring sprouting, flowering, and starting a new cycle of dazzling. In clinical practice, it is sometimes necessary to take a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid for laboratory testing in order to diagnose a disease, called “lumbar puncture”, after which the patient needs to lie down for several hours before sitting up, otherwise he will have a headache. There is also the case of lumbar anesthesia surgery, because we can not exclude the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid, so after the operation also need to lie flat for several hours. Thinking about the problem for a long time, you will also feel headache and pain in the back of the head, especially after middle age, which is the result of excessive consumption of essence, which is equivalent to a decrease in cerebrospinal fluid. Many people experience this and don’t know why. It is mentioned in the Nei Jing that people with kidney deficiency will have pain in the back of the head. Some people also get headaches after ejaculation, usually in the back of the head, which is naturally a sign of loss of sperm, the same reason as loss of cerebrospinal fluid. This is medically known as “sex-related headache” or “sex headache syndrome”, the cause of which is not clear from the information, and the treatment is also very blind, but Chinese medicine believes that it is related to the loss of sperm, and after replenishing the kidney essence, it will naturally ease. This leads to the question, is it possible that some patients with chronic headaches are related to the loss of essence? Not only is the loss of cerebrospinal fluid and semen an injury to essence, but frequent sweating, proteinuria, urine sugar, runny nose, increased leucorrhea, miscarriage and abortion are all processes that injure essence, and essence is the material basis for the production of God. Patients with rhinitis have more runny nose, they feel no spirit and low energy. Chronic osteomyelitis, gingivitis all have the problem of leaking essence. When you want to organize the information in the computer, but delayed action; make a plan, the beginning, but no more, you should realize that your own essence into qi, qi into god of some link out of the problem. ”Winter injury to the essence, spring will be sick plague”, means that the winter did not raise the essence to hide, the spring will not have the ability to generate, prone to disease toxic diseases. Without essence, naturally, it cannot transform qi, and there is no god; but with essence, it does not mean that there is sufficient god. Obese people, people with high blood fat, high blood sugar, and gout, are those who cannot transform essence into qi, and there is stagnation in the middle process, and they cannot convert these substances into power and accumulate in their bodies. In 2010 during the influenza A, most of the patients are obese and pregnant women, why they will be “spring will be sick plague” it? Obese people do not lack essence, but cannot convert it into qi smoothly, which leads to the reduction of some functions, such as high blood fat, high blood sugar and gout. Pregnant women, on the other hand, give priority to supplying the fetus with the essence produced. Although God is invisible, it is always with us and is an integral part of life. Western medicine believes that a person whose heartbeat and breathing have stopped can be considered dead, while Chinese medicine believes that in as long as a person’s God is gone, he or she is a walking corpse and is actually dead, as shown in the movie “Huang Lian Hou Pao”. “God’s qi shed the heart …… is become a person”, God has settled in the body, which is a necessary condition to become a person. Some people say that Western medicine is the study of making people “live long”, while Chinese medicine is a study of making people “live well”. So nowadays, there are often critically ill patients who are on ventilators and have many tubes all over their bodies to maintain their breathing and heartbeat, which is the current situation brought about by the thinking of Western medicine.