Professor GUO Lizhong's Experience of Treating Depression with Strengthening Yang-Qi / 浙江中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

[Objective]Summarize the Professor GUO Lizhong's experience of treating depression with strengthening Yang-Qi, providing a new perspective for the treatment of depression. [ Methods]Through observing and recording the clinical work with Professor GUO, organizing medical records, prescriptions and collecting lecture materials, theses and writings, analyzing its dialectical ideas, prescription and medication; by retriving ancient TCM books and analyzing famous TCM doctors' academic thoughts, to summarize Professor GUO's point of treating depression academic ideas and prescription drugs by strengthening Yang-Qi. That choosing Sini soup combined with Guipi soup and Tianjing soup receives good effect. [Results]Professor GUO Lizhong's thought mainly originates from classical works, such as "Internal Classics", who thinks that Yang-Qi deficiency is the root cause of depression, the essence and blood deficiency are the key links, frivolous virtual fire is its incentive, treatment of wanning or diving Yang-Qi is the first, then support essence and Yang-Qi. Two cases of depression returned to normal work and life after treatment of warning and diving Yang-Qi and supporting essence and Yang-Qi. [ Conclusion ]lt's unique of Professor GUO's experience in the treatment of depression, it is worthy of further study and experience of the dialectical ideas and election of prescription clinical value. To take GUO's experience for treating depression from the "Yang weakness, essence and blood deficiency, Yin fire up", and apply his rule can markedly relieve depression patients' clinical symptoms and obviously improve patients' life quality.