Essence and Depression Depression is actually not far from us, according to data provided by the Beijing Mental Health Association: 25% of people in the city have explicit or implicit psychological disorders. It is normal to feel depressed, feel tired, have frequent insomnia, and be depressed ……. These feelings have been experienced by everyone, and they usually get better after a few days. If the state persists or even worsens and cannot be recovered, it is likely to be a depressive state. In fact, these are the result of depletion of the mind and loss of concentration. Wang Guangqiang, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University In recent years, depression seems to have become a fashionable condition with a significantly higher prevalence rate. Officials work hard on government affairs, their hearts and minds are suddenly in trouble, or they are worried about their names and profits. Just a few days ago, another official jumped from a building due to depression. Celebrities often rush to shoot films and socialize constantly; many celebrities in show business, such as Mr. Bean from abroad, Stephen Chow from Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung who jumped from a building, and Cui Yongyuan from CCTV, are suffering from depression while bringing us joy. They generally have a very high professional training, in filming or hosting the program, the whole body and soul, this “accumulated essence of the whole spirit” of the state, to bring us the performance, like Cui Yongyuan, very natural to say very wise words to. This kind of devotion, but it is very depleted, such as not in time to dissipate the gods to replenish, will fall into depression can not extricate themselves. Daiyu’s character Chen Xiaoxu eventually failed to come out of her depression. Imagine that a person who is trivialized in filming or hosting a show is not likely to get depressed. As an ordinary person, if you are obsessed with researching a product, conducting a negotiation for several days, focusing on playing games, mahjong, Korean dramas, you will consume a lot of God, God is almost all sucked away, at that time also did not feel discomfort, but when things are over, you will feel tired and weak, listless, eyes dull, if often in this state, do not recover, it is easy to lead to depression. So depression should be the result of continuous loss of energy and depletion of the mind. The most easily understood is the process of making love, after the passion, often feel weak, unfocused, frustrated feeling, can not raise interest, when God is scattered, standing stakes, meditation are difficult to settle, this is precisely some of the performance of depression, normal people can soon recover. However, if there is no restraint, “wine as a pulp, delusion as a regular, drunk to enter the room” or “mistakenly make bad friends”, addicted to pornographic websites, you will frequently be in this depressed state of depression. This is likely to be the real cause of depression in some patients. It should be said that the proliferation of pornographic websites is roughly proportional to the increase in depression. Sometimes depression alternates with mania, called “depression-mania syndrome”, why is that? This explains the relationship between depression and excessive consumption of God. Just like an oil lamp, the oil inside is our essence, the fire produced is the gas, and the light emitted is our God. In a normal person, one wick burns slowly and gently for a long time, but in a manic episode, two or three wicks are lit at a time and the light shines brightly. When the oil runs out, the flame becomes smaller and becomes depressed. When the oil slowly saved more, and will not save, so again the mania attack. This is a pathological process, but many people are artificially creating this “radiant” pathology. “Death by addiction”, “playing is the heartbeat”, “wine as a pulp, delusion as a regular, drunk to the room”, drugs, staying up late, not dieting, open and dark, chasing fame and fortune. Early drained their own oil, but do not know how to replenish in time, so, after the glory, depression attack. There is also a phenomenon of “postpartum depression”, the current explanation is also very vague, only recognize that the cause is personality, mood swings, endocrine, genetic, etc., but also do not recognize that childbirth is a huge loss of sperm process. Treatment is superficially psychological, pharmacological, physical or even electroconvulsive. Again, there is no treatment from the perspective of replenishing sperm, and lactation is also an obvious process of losing sperm, which is bound to aggravate depression by eating some yin-cold aquatic products. The most recent article on postpartum depression is a 2014 review in the British Medical Journal (BMJ): “A disease that cannot be ignored – postpartum depression”, available at http://obgyn.dxy.cn/article/85888?trace=edm Again, there is no mention of such a core as loss of sperm, and the understanding of this disease seems to be at the stage of the blind leading the blind. The treatment of depression is described on Baidu as follows: “① Individualized treatment; ② Gradual increase in dose, the smallest possible effective amount to minimize adverse effects, in order to improve compliance with medication; ③ Full amount and full course of treatment; ④ Single medication as far as possible, if the efficacy is not good, consider switching treatment, booster therapy or combination therapy, but need to pay attention to drug interactions; ⑤ Informed notification before treatment; ⑥ Close communication during treatment (5) Informed notification before treatment; (6) Close observation of changes and adverse reactions during treatment and timely management; (7) Combined psychotherapy to increase the efficacy; (8) Active treatment of other physical diseases, substance dependence, anxiety disorders and other co-morbidities with depression.” This is the viewpoint of Western medicine, which shows that there is no good method on the treatment of depression. There is no mention of measures to prevent the loss of essence and the use of tonic and solid astringent products. Starting from the theory of essence in Chinese medicine and recognizing the real cause of depression, the treatment becomes easier. First of all, we should follow the nature and take advantage of the winter season to nourish and hide the essence, to eliminate the leakage of essence, loss of essence, such as staying up late, insomnia, seminal emission, chronic blood loss, miscarriage, fallen fetus, sweating, obsession with mahjong, Korean drama, fame and fortune, etc., so that the essence will be naturally stored up and the spirit will be restored. Since the treatment of Western medicine does not recognize this, the treatment has little effect and the recurrence rate is 75-80%. In addition, Chinese medicine treatment can also be referred to the book “Jin Kui Yao? Blood paralysis and deficiency labor disease pulse evidence and treatment”. Second, improper diet can also lead to depression. Young people eat meat, bite seafood, drink milk, drink beer, because the spleen and stomach function well, can eliminate, can be transformed into their own ingredients easily. When you get older, your spleen and stomach function decreases, and you still eat these things, you will consume a lot of vital energy, which cannot be completely eliminated and transformed, producing many “semi-finished products”, such as uric acid, which cannot continue to be metabolized and accumulate, leading to gout. This is like a diesel engine, you can digest diesel, high calorific value, power enough; and senior cars, is a gasoline engine, can only use 97 gasoline, although the calorific value is low, but easy to convert into kinetic energy, exhaust gas in the garbage is also less. Grains, equivalent to 97 gasoline, easily absorbed by the body; while seafood, meat, milk, and even eggs, is the food of Yin cold things, although the caloric value is high, but the digestive effort. So you should weigh your ability to digest them before you eat the yin and cold stuff. Yang Qi weak people eat seafood, is equivalent to let the minivan burn diesel fuel, its own that point of vitality, in the heating and firing process will consume most of it, it is difficult to then convert seafood into essence, first hurt the essence, then hurt the spirit, and eventually depression. Some people think that drinking more water is good for health, drink water, not directly into sweat, in the process of converting our fluid, sweat, urine, consume a lot of our energy, or at least increase the burden on the kidneys. This is why Chinese medicine believes that “there is no beauty or evil in things, too much is a disaster”. Thirdly, Chinese medicine believes that when the temperature of the internal organs drops, there will be abdominal distension and discomfort, and a variety of digestive system diseases, which is called “hidden cold and full of disease”. This is because the various enzymes in the body can only function at 37 degrees, if the temperature of the small stomach can not reach, digestive enzymes can not work, eat food can not be fully absorbed, other visceral temperature drop, can not fully transform the essence into gas. The most common situation that causes the temperature of the internal organs to drop today is drinking beer and carbonated drinks. The carbon dioxide in these drinks, the process of gasification in the body will take away a lot of heat, not to mention cold beer, drinks and ice cream. This “hiding cold” another consequence is that the body needs to produce a lot of fat, strengthen the internal organs of insulation. Therefore, we have heard of “beer belly”, but have not heard of “white wine belly”, “red wine belly”. Often people say “drink cold water also grow fat”, but do not know that this is the cause of obesity. If you often drink hot water, it is likely to slim down. Therefore, for depressed patients, we should not only give more care, but also guide them scientifically to raise their essence and produce enough Qi and God, so that they can smell the flowers and hear the birds singing again, and no longer think about the negative effects of life, but really feel the beauty of life. This should be the root of the treatment of depression.