With the development of society and the improvement of living standards, people's daily stress has become greater and their emotions fluctuate greatly. Depression is a common symptom in life, so how can this disease be treated? Today, I will bring you knowledge about acupuncture treatment for depression. Let's take a look at how acupuncture can improve your mood.
Acupuncture, the tiny silver needle that makes you feel better:
Depression is actually not terrifying. It is like a common cold or hypertension, a common illness. The symptoms of depression include a low mood, lack of interest, lack of energy, accompanied by insomnia, irritability, and loss of appetite. These symptoms persist for more than two weeks and there is no organic disease. "Because patients often complain of physical discomfort, depression is easily overlooked and misdiagnosed. When you experience these symptoms, you should consider whether you have depression."
Currently, many patients with depression choose to take antidepressant medication, but these medications have certain side effects and take a while to take effect. Traditional Chinese medicine can complement the shortcomings of Western medicine. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine focuses on taking different targeted measures based on individual conditions. Among them, electroacupuncture is a characteristic method of traditional Chinese medicine for treating depression. It uses different parameters of electric current to perform acupuncture on acupoints, transmitting along the meridians to the central area, acting on effector organs, thereby improving the brainwaves of depressed patients, as well as improving the endocrine system, immune system, etc., to achieve therapeutic effects.
Acupuncture treatment of depression:
Acupuncture treatment has the characteristics of wide application and definite efficacy, so it can also be used to treat depression and its accompanying or secondary physical diseases. However, acupuncture treatment must be based on the patient's symptoms combined with tongue and pulse diagnosis to determine the treatment method. In general, traditional Chinese medicine believes that depression is closely related to the dysfunction of the heart, liver, spleen, and kidneys.
Therefore, in the treatment, it is necessary to first differentiate the condition of these organs in patients and then establish a treatment plan. Based on the treatment and efficacy analysis of depression, we have summarized two groups of acupoints for acupuncture treatment of depression.
Acupoints: Five Zang organs Shu points plus Ge Shu point, namely Xin Shu, Fei Shu, Pi Shu, Gan Shu, Shen Shu, and Ge Shu. The reason for the use of these acupoints is that the organs affected by depression are the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. Depression is often caused by stagnation of qi and blood due to stagnant emotions, resulting in blood stasis syndrome.
Ge Shu is a meeting point for blood and has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Therefore, the selection of the five Zang organs Shu points can achieve the effects of calming the mind, tonifying the kidneys and spleen, and regulating the liver and qi, gradually normalizing the function of the organs.
Acupoints: Shen Ting, Bai Hui, An Mian, Shen Men, San Yin Jiao. If the patient has unstable or depressed emotions, Hegu and Taichong acupoints can be added. If the patient feels qi moving up and down in the abdomen or abdominal distension, Qihai, Zhongwan, Neiguan, and Xuanji acupoints can be added to promote the movement of qi, widen the chest, and relieve distension.
In the treatment, these two groups of acupoints can be used alternately, and patients can achieve the effects of calming the mind, clearing the mind, and calming the spirit. If patients have other symptoms, other corresponding acupoints can also be selected for treatment.
Although antidepressant drugs have good efficacy, they still have varying degrees of side effects, risks of overdose, and certain contraindications. Acupuncture treatment has shown unique advantages such as rapid improvement of symptoms and no side effects, and is gradually accepted by patients.
Pure acupuncture treatment has similar effects to pure drug treatment, but using acupuncture in combination with medication significantly improves the treatment effect.
In modern society, due to excessive pressure from various aspects and a lack of opportunities to release it, a large proportion of people suffer from "depression". Today, I inadvertently came across an article online mentioning that traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture has a good therapeutic effect on treating depression, so I found an article online to share, hoping it will be useful to those who are suffering from this illness.
"Receiving acupuncture treatment for several tens of minutes each time, combined with medication, for a period of time can effectively control depression," according to the acupuncture department. It is reported that the hospital has concluded through more than two years of observation of multiple clinical patients that acupuncture treatment can partially or largely replace the commonly used antidepressant medication.
