There is a kind of depression called "Yin Deficiency and Fire Prosperity", and Zhang Zhongjing has a party that specializes in treating it!
There are many types of depression, major depression, bipolar depression, psychotic depression, reactive depression, menopausal depression, secondary depression, postpartum depression, seasonal depression, ...... These all belong to the category of "depression syndrome" in traditional Chinese medicine.
There is a kind of depression, in the words of traditional Chinese medicine, called yin deficiency and fire prosperity.
Its main manifestations are: hot palms and feet, irritability, anxiety, insomnia, dry mouth and throat, red tongue, and no interest.
If you are depressed of this type, remember that there is a recipe in the Chinese medicine prescription - Coptis Ejiao Soup, which is from Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever".
【Composition】Coptis chinensis, skullcap, white peony, chicken yellow, ejiao.
【Usage】Water decoction.
【Efficacy】Nourish yin and reduce fire, remove annoyance and calm the nerves.
【Indications】Depression caused by yin deficiency and fire, heart and kidney incommunicacy.
【Solution】Coptis chinensis, Ejiao - nourishing yin and reducing fire; Skullcap and white peony - clearing heat and reducing fire, nourishing blood and collecting yin; Chicken yellow - nourishing the heart and center. The combination of various medicines plays a role in purging fire and nourishing water, and communicating the heart and kidneys.
【Addition and subtraction】For those with qi deficiency, add Codonopsis radix and Astragalus, for those with blood deficiency, add Angelica sinensis and Rehmannia rehmannia, for those with liver depression, add Bupleurum and White Peony, and for those with hyperactivity of liver yang, add hook vine, raw keel and raw oysters.
In short, this recipe can not only clear the heat of the upper coke, but also nourish the yin of the lower coke, so that the human body can become a hexagram of heart and kidney intersection, which can be called "the annoyant in traditional Chinese medicine", insomnia, anxiety, depression, irritability, all drive away!
