Is Chinese medicine or Western medicine better for treating depression?

I believe that everyone has more or less known about the disease of depression, and there may even be patients with depression around you. There are many reasons for suffering from depression, which may be due to work pressure, or major changes in the family, etc. When depression occurs, it has a great impact on people, and people need to seek timely help and treatment to prevent the disease from worsening. So, is it better to treat depression with traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine?

In the treatment of depression, Western medicine is generally the main method, while traditional Chinese medicine is auxiliary. Nowadays, most of them are a combination of Chinese and Western medicine. But in the end, Western medicine is still the main choice.

Family members choose traditional Chinese medicine for treatment because they themselves can accept it. Another reason is that he believes that traditional Chinese medicine has fewer side effects. Chinese medicine can get rid of the root cause. In fact, this is all psychological effect of patients or their families. In fact, if you take medicine for a long time, you should still focus on Western medicine. Chinese medicine alone cannot cure depression. During my more than 30 years of clinical experience, about 20% of patients chose to use traditional Chinese medicine at the beginning, which led to delays in their treatment. Depression becomes chronic. And about 50% of them use a combination of Chinese and Western medicine. They take Western medicine on one side and see a Chinese doctor on the other side, which also delays their treatment.

There was a patient, a middle-aged woman, 46 years old. Approaching menopause age. She has been suffering from depression for four or five years. I have been taking Chinese medicine off and on. I asked her why she took the medicine intermittently instead of continuously? She said that after taking the medicine, she felt irritable and sweaty, but then she felt better, so she stopped taking the medicine. In fact, her depression symptoms did not improve at all. Chinese medicine practitioners can reduce the degree of palpitations by inducing sweating using some Chinese patent medicines. And the patient has poor eating habits. I feel like my physical strength has improved a bit. But the mood is low. Bad mood, pessimism and strong inferiority complex still exist. The patient is still taking Chinese medicine.

She said: "I still hope that my depression symptoms can improve, because other symptoms have improved a little. I see a little hope and I can't give up." She is very persistent and has been taking Chinese medicine. In the end, she was not only depressed, but also had a tingling tongue, a bit of stiffness in her limbs, and her muscles felt like they were rigid. He described his tongue as tingling, his muscles were a bit stiff, and he felt a bit sore, which was getting worse. I feel like life is meaningless. I've been taking Chinese medicine for so long, but I'm not feeling any better. In the end, the patient couldn't hold on any longer and came to our hospital for treatment.

By undergoing a systematic inspection. The consultation result given is a combination of Chinese and Western medicine treatment. Combined with Chinese patent medicine and physical therapy. Physical therapy has no side effects. The patient adjusted quickly through treatment, within five or six days. The patient's anxiety, irritability, tingling and stiffness were significantly reduced. Therefore, it is not enough to just take Chinese medicine. You must believe in science and combine Chinese and Western medicine to treat your condition, and the effect will be better.