First, diet regimen
Diet regimen should not be neglected, the medical master Sun Simiao in the “Thousand Gold Essentials? Food treatment chapter” said: “food can get rid of evil and the internal organs, pleasing to the soul, refreshing the will, in order to capitalize on the qi and blood”.
Bananas contain substances that help the human brain to produce 5-hydroxytryptamine, which can give you a good mood; some foods rich in folic acid, such as spinach, asparagus, kiwi, oysters, oranges, peas, soybeans can help us fight depression; those foods rich in vitamin B, such as flour, cereals, animal liver, fruit is also very beneficial to improve bad mood and depression ……
In addition to medication for depression, medicinal food can effectively relieve symptoms and play a supplementary therapeutic role. The Chinese medicine believes that depression is due to emotional discomfort, gas depression, too much thinking, and therefore the depression turns into fire, dark depletion of the heart and lung yin, the disease and all the veins. The physical manifestations are different, and can be divided into different types with medicinal dietary regimen.
Yin deficiency internal heat type
The manifestations are dry mouth, dry throat, anorexia, sitting, question and answer, unable to lie down, unable to walk, feeling cold and heat, red tongue, especially the tip of the tongue, and fine pulse. It should nourish Yin and clear heat, nourish the heart and calm the mind.
Lily and chicken soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of lily, 10 grams of mother of pearl, 60 grams of chicken breast, starch, salt and monosodium glutamate.
Method: Cut the chicken breast into thin slices and pat it into a puree, then decoct the juice of lily and Zhi Mu, take the thick juice and pour it over the chicken breast. Add salt, monosodium glutamate, starch, and water to make a gravy and cook it slightly to make a paste.
Features: Lily and Zhi Mu can clear the heart, calm the mind and remove annoyance, mainly treating residual heat after a fever that hurts Yin; chicken can replenish essence and add marrow, strengthen the spleen and benefit Qi. The combination of the ingredients has the effect of nourishing yin and calming the mind, and can be eaten frequently by people with dry mouth and throat and anorexia.
Phellodendron Jade Bamboo Tea
Ingredients: 10 grams of cypress kernel, 10 grams of yu zhu.
Preparation: Stir fry and mash the cypress seeds in a pot, add water and decoction of yu zhu to get juice, brew the cup of cypress seeds, and put a lid on the cup, let it stand for 10 minutes, and then drink it frequently.
Features: The yu zhu in this product can nourish yin, and cypress kernel can calm the mind. The combination of the two has the effect of nourishing yin, tonifying the lung, and nourishing the heart and calming the mind.
Phlegm-heat internal disturbance type
Depression, stuffiness in the chest, obstruction in the throat, disturbance of the heart by phlegm-heat, restlessness at night, restlessness in the mind, headache and distension, chagrin in the heart, flushed face, white and greasy tongue coating, and slippery pulse. It is advisable to use medicine to purify phlegm-heat and nourish the heart and calm the mind.
Er Dong Er Mu Paste
Ingredients: 100 grams each of asparagus and maidenhair, 50 grams each of Zhi Mu and Chuan Bei Mu, 100 grams of honey.
Preparation: Decoct the juice of asparagus, maidenhair and Zhi Mu with water, remove the residue and extract the juice, crush Chuan Bei Mu into powder, add the powder to the decoction, simmer for 30 minutes, then add honey and continue to refine to a thick consistency, bottle and cool in the refrigerator, take one spoonful (10 grams) each morning and evening daily with water.
Features: asparagus and maidenhair nourish Yin and nourish the lungs, Chuanbei mum and Zhi Mu can dissolve phlegm and clear heat, while honey nourishes the middle of the body and benefits the qi, together making a paste.
Three Juice Drink
Ingredients: 100 grams of water chestnut, 100 grams of sugar cane, 10 grams of light bamboo leaves.
Preparation: Wash and peel water chestnuts and sugar cane, press them into juice; add water and decoction of light bamboo leaves, remove the residue and extract the juice, about 50 ml, add it into the juice and stir well.
Features: water chestnut is sweet and cold, nourishing Yin, clearing heat and resolving phlegm; sugar cane is sweet and cold, nourishing Yin and moistening lung; light bamboo leaf clears heat and fire. Drinking the three juices together can clear heat and expel phlegm, nourish Yin and moisten the lung, which is especially suitable for depressed patients with internal disturbance of phlegm and heat resulting in dizziness and mental trance.
Liver depression and mental disturbance
It is characterized by mental depression, emotional restlessness, frequent sighing, unpredictable sadness, joy and anger, dizziness, headache, insomnia, dreaminess, pale tongue, thin white fur and thin pulse. It is advisable to use medicinal food that nourishes the heart and calms the mind, calms the liver and relieves depression.
Tianma Fish Head Soup
Ingredients: 10 grams of asparagus, bighead carp (fat head fish) head 100 grams.
Method: cut the asparagus into slices, fish head washed and gilled, add onion, ginger, wine and salt to the appropriate amount, stewed for more than 40 minutes over moderate heat, simmered into a thick soup to eat.
Features: asparagus is sweet and flat, can calm the liver and submerge Yang; bighead carp head can resolve phlegm, tonic deficiency, and benefit the brain marrow. Regular consumption of asparagus and bighead carp head soup is effective for headache and dizziness in depressed patients with deficiency of essence in the lower part of the body and hyperactivity of yang in the upper part of the body.
Heart-lung Qi deficiency type
The manifestation is thoughtfulness, trance, palpitation and timidity, insomnia and forgetfulness, spontaneous sweating and shortness of breath, sleepiness and drowsiness, fat tongue and weak pulse. It is advisable to use a remedy to nourish the qi and calm the mind.
Duck egg and ginseng lily soup
Ingredients: 1 duck egg, 3 grams of American ginseng, 30 grams of lily, ice sugar.
Method: Wash and break the lily, add sugar and water into the pot and cook. Then crush the ginseng into minced, duck egg shelled and broken, mix into the ginseng minced, pour into the lily, stir well and boil slightly to serve as a meal.
Features: This product can benefit the qi and tranquilize the mind, nourish the yin and moisten the lung. Lilies clear the heart and tranquilize the mind; duck eggs are sweet and cold, nourishing Yin and moistening the body; American ginseng nourishes Qi and nourishes Yin.
II. Self-massage
Treatment principles and acupuncture points under the guidance of the meridian theory of Chinese medicine, should be the principle of strengthening the brain and refreshing the mind, de-stressing the liver and relieving depression, regulating the emotions, with the main points of the Governor and Liver meridian, taking the Baihui, Shenting, Taichong, Neiguan, Shenmen and Sanyinjiao.
The Baihui acupoint is the meeting point of the Directing Vessel, the Sanyang meridian of the hands and feet, and the Liver meridian of the feet, and is located at the top of the head, where all the veins meet. It is located at the top of the head and is the meeting point of all the veins. In the book of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, it is said that “it is used for boredom, palpitation and forgetfulness, forgetfulness of the front and back, and trance.” It is an important point to calm the mind and regulate the spirit. According to modern research on animals in a state of panic, whether applying tonic or diarrhea to make the huge increase in cAMP, cCMP significantly decreased and tends to normal values, has a smooth effect on the Shenji.
Shenting is located on the forehead, in the vestibule of the brain, and is also distributed on the route of the Governor’s vein at the top of the head, so it can treat depression caused by depression, slow thinking, etc. The Acupuncture and Moxibustion A B Jing describes the therapeutic effect of this point as “for epilepsy, and moxibustion of the Governor’s vein 30 strong, …… point in the straight nose into the The acupuncture point is in the middle of the nose and into the hairline. The Shen Ting is the meeting of the Governor’s Vessel, the Sun and Yang Ming, and has the function of tranquilizing the mind and opening the orifices, treating mental inactivity and sluggish thinking.
It is located at the bottom of the brain, and is the house of the vital energy, which can lead Yin into Yang, and has the effect of nourishing the brain and regulating the mind, treating various mental illnesses, especially for the adjustment of negative emotions.
Yin Tang is a strange point outside the meridian, where the Directing Vessel passes in the forehead, regulating the mind and waking up the brain.
Taichong point is the original point of the liver meridian, “five organs have diseases, when taken from the twelve original”, the main “chest full of support, …… end of the day not too much rest”.
The Nei Guan point has the function of broadening the chest and relieving depression, “A B Jing” cloud: “the heart is tantalized and good panic heart sad, Nei Guan main.”
Shenmen point has a calming effect on the heart and tranquilizing the mind, “Jade Dragon Song” says: “The disease of dementia is unbearable to relatives, do not know the respect and humility in vain to scold people, Shenmen alone treats the disease of dementia, turn the hand bone open to get the point true.”
The Sanyinjiao point is paired with Neiguan and Shenmen to have a calming and tranquilizing effect, and is a good treatment for insomnia, the main symptom of depression. As the “A B Jing” cloud: “alarm can not sleep, …… water qi up and down, five organs swimming qi, Sanyinjiao master.”