基于中医身心医学思想谈抑郁症从肾论治

Discussion on Treating Depression by Regulating Kidney-yang based on Psychosomatic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine

抑郁症已成为一种常见的病症,越来越多的人承受着抑郁症带来的身心双重折磨。中医治疗本病历来多从肝论治,认为其核心病机在于肝气郁结,作者结合中医传统理论及抑郁症的临床表现,认为肾阳虚是抑郁症的重要病机,并结合中医身心医学相关理念,论述了肾阳虚与抑郁症的发病关系,阐述了重视肾阳在治疗抑郁症中的作用,强调在中医辨治抑郁症时需重视振奋肾阳,为临床辨治抑郁症提供新思路,以期更好地改善抑郁诸病,缓解患者身心痛苦。

Depression has become a common disease,and more and more people are suffering both mental and physical torture.It is common to treat the disease with traditional Chinese medicine by regulating liver because it is well accepted that the core pathogenesis of depression is the stagnation of liver qi.But I think that the deficiency of kidney-yang is another significant pathogenesis of depression ac-cording to its clinical manifestation and the traditional Chinese medicine theory.This paper discusses the relationship between the defi-ciency of kidney-yang and depression based on the psychosomatic theory of traditional Chinese medicine and states the importance of kid-ney-yang to the treatment of depression disorder.This article also emphasizes that warming and invigorating kidney-yang would take an important role in treating depression.I hope the viewpoint of the paper may exploit the new thought of treating depression in order to re-lieve physical and mental suffering for patients.