Hello everyone, I am a Chinese medicine practitioner, Zhou Guangbai.
Schizophrenia, also known as epilepsy, is characterized by mental depression, apathy, silent dementia, incoherent speech, and quiet and inactivity. This disease is closely related to mental disorders in TCM theory.
There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine, which is called "going to work and guarding the gods". This means that a savvy physician treats mental illness by focusing not only on the patient's superficial symptoms and signs, but also on the patient's state of mind and mental outlook. Through measures such as adjusting and guarding the mind, it helps patients maintain a peaceful and optimistic attitude, improve their psychological endurance, and thus promote the recovery of mental illness.
The loss of "mind" is considered to be the root cause of schizophrenia.
Xiao Zhang, 28 years old, was laid off by the company due to the bad economic situation, and after returning home, he repeatedly hit a wall when looking for a job, and began to lose sleep at night.
This situation lasted for half a year, and the family sought help from Chinese medicine practitioners in a worried way.
According to the patient's condition, I think that his insomnia, anxiety, and irritability at night are all symptoms, and the essence of liver stagnation and phlegm is the essence.
So prescribe: keel, rhubarb, cinnamon branches, bupleurum, skullcap, licorice, ginger, oysters, jujubes, banxia, ginseng.
In this, the keel is reused, which can calm the mind and calm the convulsions, and the patient's daily manic crying is caused by the disturbed and frightened mind and the liver fire rebellion.
Then use rhubarb to drain away the excess fire and heat, and use bupleurum, skullcap, cinnamon branches, etc. to reconcile the surface and the inside, which can naturally straighten out the disease, cut the grass and eradicate the roots.
One week after the initial consultation, the patient personally reported that the quality of sleep at night was much better, and there was very little insomnia.
This time, the patient's sleep quality improved again, his face was sallow, his eyes were blue and black, and his conversation was no longer perfunctory, but he seriously recounted his changes during the week. The patient's family also had a lot of smiles on their faces, and they were very pleased that the patient took the initiative to come to see the doctor.
One month after the second consultation, the patient reported to me that he had a good night's sleep, no longer fatigue and headaches during the day, and his auditory hallucinations and delusions had disappeared. Now he is in a happy mood and has the determination to continue to struggle.
In fact, this patient's mania and cursing are not only due to liver qi stagnation and confusion. It was even more because he was holding a breath of turbidity in his heart, which caused phlegm to be blocked in his liver. After a long time, the two spirits will be distracted, and the two spirits will fight endlessly in the body, disturbing the mind, and then becoming delirious and irritable all day long.
Now that I think about it, the prescription used at that time did not focus on adjusting the appearance of medicine, but focused on regulating the heart and liver, and when the heart is good, the liver is also cured, and the disease is cured.