Psychotropic drugs are drugs that directly affect mental activity and include psychotropic drugs (also known as hallucinogens) and psychotherapeutic drugs. Psychiatric disorders have existed for thousands of years, and before the advent of psychiatric drugs, people with mental illness were either treated inhumanely or lacked effective treatment. The 1950s were a revolutionary era in the development of psychotropic drugs, with the discovery of the antipsychotic effect of chlorpromazine in 1950, the antidepressant effect of promethazine in 1958, the antimanic effect of lithium salts in 1949, and the first anti-anxiety drug, clorazepam, in 1957. The appearance of these drugs made psychiatry say goodbye to the era of lack of medical care and drugs, and many symptoms of psychiatric patients were effectively controlled or significantly improved, and the quality of survival and quality of life of patients were significantly improved. Subsequently, on the basis of these drugs, many new antipsychotics, antidepressants, antimanic drugs and anti-anxiety drugs have been developed, which continuously promote the improvement of psychiatric clinical treatment level. However, because the exact etiology of psychiatric diseases is still unclear, the selectivity and specificity of psychotropic drug treatment targets are not strong, and the brain and the body have an inextricable and complex relationship, psychotropic drugs, while treating the target symptoms of psychiatric diseases, also affect other parts of the brain and the body that are not related to the production of psychiatric symptoms, thus generating many kinds of unnecessary side effects: the side effects can seriously affect patients’ lives, and some psychotropic drugs can cause sudden death. Some psychotropic drugs can cause sudden death, and vascular problems caused by the metabolic syndrome associated with antipsychotic drugs can reduce the average life expectancy of schizophrenic patients by 5 to 10 years; more severe side effects can cause disability, such as loss of mobility due to delayed movement disorder caused by antipsychotic drugs, loss of the ability to reproduce due to amenorrhea and impotence caused by antipsychotic drugs; some side effects can seriously affect patients. Some side effects seriously affect the quality of life and work of patients, such as some psychotropic drugs can impair the cognitive ability of patients, making them unable to study and work normally; some side effects bring unnecessary pain to patients, such as dry mouth, constipation, headache and dizziness, affecting the quality of life and compliance with treatment. This affects the quality of life and prognosis of psychiatric patients, and has become a problem that cannot be avoided in psychiatric clinical treatment. The current attitude and treatment of adverse drug reactions in Western medicine are as follows: 1. For many adverse reactions, patients are allowed to tolerate them gradually. The reasons behind this may be: (1) the belief that these adverse reactions are inevitable at the current level of drug development; (2) the lack of effective treatment for some adverse reactions, such as dry mouth, constipation, delayed movement disorder, menstrual disorders or amenorrhea, impotence, and metabolic syndrome; (3) the fact that some treatments can aggravate psychiatric disorders while treating adverse reactions, such as bromocriptine for amenorrhea can aggravate psychiatric symptoms, thus limiting the use of these methods. However, the process of gradual tolerance is a painful process that patients and families continue to endure. Many patients and families suffer from adverse effects that are not even a concern in Western medicine, such as dry mouth, in actual clinical practice. Not to mention the deep sense of shame and frustration that amenorrhea and impotence bring to patients. Therefore, the method of allowing patients to gradually tolerate adverse reactions is not in line with the medical humanism of “healer’s art”. 2, for some adverse reactions only until the serious impact on physical safety or in line with the severity of the Western medical diagnosis of disease will start the clinical management procedures. For example, the cardiovascular side effects of psychotropic drugs will only be dealt with if there are serious ECG abnormalities, while general ECG abnormalities can only be clinically observed. This is obviously contrary to the idea of “prevention is more important than cure” in the treatment of diseases in Western medicine. Therefore, according to the existing clinical model of Western medicine in dealing with adverse drug reactions, it is extremely difficult to achieve the ideal of “effective treatment without side effects” for patients and their families. This is an important issue that cannot be avoided in psychiatric clinics. Unlike Western medicine, the strength of TCM itself lies in the adjustment of somatic symptoms. For example, for thousands of years, TCM has accumulated rich clinical experience in the treatment of dry mouth, constipation, amenorrhea, and impotence, which is currently applied in a large number of modern psychiatric TCM practices for the treatment of some common somatic symptom-based side effects, but there is a lack of systematic summary of monographs. On the other hand, since drug reactions have appeared in TCM psychiatry for only 70 years, their etiology and pathogenesis are significantly different from those of similar somatic symptoms in traditional TCM internal medicine, and thus the treatment will be significantly different from that of similar somatic symptoms in traditional TCM internal medicine. In this case, the treatment method applied in traditional Chinese medicine is often ineffective. Therefore, new ideas and breakthroughs are needed for the TCM etiology and treatment of some drug side effects.