Due to the destruction of natural environment and fierce competition in urban life, China is facing a high incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases, including depression, insomnia and other mental diseases. These chronic diseases caused by the pressure of economic development and unhealthy lifestyles have accounted for 70% of the total number of deaths in the country! With the rapid development of social and economic life, seemingly minor mental diseases have swept through. If they can't get timely and effective treatment, they will even become a heavy burden for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Psychologists say that in modern society, more and more people are troubled by disharmonious factors such as workplace competition, study pressure and emotional entanglements. In the market economy, almost everyone is under great intangible mental pressure all the time. This kind of pressure will eventually break the harmonious ecological environment of the five internal organs of the human body, leading to depression, sleep disorder, inability to concentrate, and obvious memory loss. This is the so-called disease of modern civilization. These diseases do not seem to kill people immediately, but they are also extremely harmful. Without effective and timely treatment, it will eventually become a thorny problem for individuals, families, units and even the whole society, and become the second largest health killer after cancer in today's era.
Nowadays, industrial civilization has not only brought great damage to the earth on which we live, but also brought great troubles to people's work and life all over the world due to unscientific development mode and unhealthy lifestyle, which triggered a large number of chronic diseases, including mental illness, and became a huge hidden danger for the whole society, especially for developing China. However, due to the "recessive" characteristics of these diseases, they have not received due attention at present. Some people with depression and sleep disorders don't even know that they are sick, and some people are afraid to see a doctor.
CCTV's Insomnia on June 28th, 2009 reported that there are about 654.38+08 billion people suffering from insomnia in the world, and more than 30% people in China suffer from insomnia. It is easy to get a thousand dollars, but it is difficult to find a "feeling", which has become the hardship of hundreds of millions of insomniacs. Refractory insomnia is the chief culprit of depression and the highest incidence rate, which brings relentless pain and serious consequences to patients.
As we know, nearly one-third of people's life is spent in sleep, and sleep determines the quality and value of the other two-thirds. However, when night falls, more and more people begin to suffer from a night phobia. They toss and turn, suffer from insomnia, and all kinds of sleeping positions are of no help. After a night of tossing, it was dawn, and I had to work hard and then go to the workplace. The day of physical and mental exhaustion began again.
Sleeping like this, the harm brought by other mental diseases is even more terrible. People living in modern society are always under the pressure of fast-paced and fast-paced society. Career, marriage, family, further education and employment, including power struggle and wealth wrestling, are hurting people's hearts and making them under high pressure for a long time. As a result, mental illness has become the first disease of modern civilization and an invisible killer that affects health in 2 1 century.
Mental illness belongs to the disease of modern civilization, and wealth gives people enjoyment and status, making society prosperous; But at the same time, it also gives people new pressure and burden. Modern people live in such a competitive environment full of reverie and noise, and relieving stress should be put on the agenda of health engineering. Never think that only the body will get sick and people's mood will get sick, but people's mood is unbearable! In this changeable and bizarre era, facing the "mental illness" disaster brought by modern civilization and development, excavating, refining, sublimating and developing the traditional wisdom of the Chinese nation-traditional Chinese medicine will release infinite hope and light.
The research shows that adhering to the basic theoretical principles of Chinese medicine culture, such as "the correspondence between man and nature", "the harmony of five zang-organs" and "the balance of yin and yang, qi and blood", we insist on tracing the source and treating both the symptoms and root causes, and regard repairing the disturbed internal ecological environment of human body as the fundamental principle of clinical pathology, law and prescription. From the perspective of soothing the liver and relieving depression, the methods of' depression' and' stasis' are applied; Starting with removing annoyance and calming the nerves, the prescription of eliminating phlegm and heat breaks through the key points and comprehensively recuperates, so that the functions of the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys and other organs of the human body can be restored to a state of coordinated exercise, and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety can be fundamentally treated. No matter in the theoretical system, or in the field of clinical theory, methods and prescriptions, there are innovations and breakthroughs. Because of the different theoretical systems, the theory of western medicine is based on cytology; The theory of traditional Chinese medicine is rooted in the long-term research and summary of the ancient people on the ecological operation law of nature, and formed in the inheritance, sublimation and development of thousands of years later, which has a broad and profound practical, philosophical and theoretical basis. When the global "emotional illness" strikes on a large scale, we can't find many good medicines to treat it anywhere. After the introduction of western popular psychological counseling into China, it is just a drop in the bucket and there is nothing to be done.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that stagnation of the liver leads to stagnation of qi, stagnation of qi leads to phlegm coagulation, stagnation of qi leads to excessive fire for a long time, and the struggle between phlegm and fire is the basic pathological basis of this kind of disease. Generally speaking, long-term mental stress will inevitably lead to stagnation of liver-qi, which will inevitably lead to stagnation of qi, and then lead to phlegm and fire, which will lead to a series of diseases such as anxiety, insomnia, depression, difficulty in concentration and obvious memory loss. At this time, symptoms such as tasteless diet, decreased digestive function, menstrual disorder in women, impotence and premature ejaculation in men, and even cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, glucose metabolism and autonomic nervous dysfunction will appear one after another until they develop into serious consequences of low self-evaluation and self-abandonment, which will cause serious harm to families and society.
The word "annoying" goes from fire to page. In ancient Chinese, the original meaning of the word "page" refers to the human head, and the words near the top of the page all indicate that it is related to the brain. Chinese medicine believes that the heart and brain are a whole, so people who are troubled are related to the heart and brain.
Psychiatrists believe that the liver governs emotions, the heart governs spirit, and the spleen governs transportation. When people are under pressure and mental stimulation for a long time, there will inevitably be pathological changes of liver depression and qi stagnation. According to the theory of five elements in traditional Chinese medicine, liver depression will inevitably destroy the spleen for a long time, leading to spleen deficiency and dampness, phlegm and fire in the chest, disturbing the mind, leading to irritability, depression, impatience, trouble and depression. As mentioned above, phlegm-heat accumulates in the heart and chest, forming the depression that phlegm-heat disturbs the heart. The pathological change of restless mood is the crux of "mood disease". If phlegm heat is not eradicated, the patient's mood will never be peaceful, not only can't be changed, but will become stronger and stronger, thus forming a vicious circle as shown in the following figure, as shown in the following figure:
There are two classic sayings in TCM: "Strange diseases are attributed to phlegm" and "Strange diseases are based on blood". From ancient times to the present, although people have always regarded healing physical pain as the top priority in treating diseases and saving lives, they have never given up the exploration of "emotional diseases" that are invisible and intangible, and have formed a set of effective treatment methods. In fact, the theory of TCM is profound, like countless precious sands scattered in the boundless sea of books.
Emotional problems are no small matter! In recent years, we have seen more and more family and social tragedies caused by "emotional diseases" in the news media. Don't underestimate the emotional problems! The environment is produced by the mind, which produces everything, even physical diseases. Emotional illness is caused by emotional injury and stress. If it is not adjusted in time, it will develop into liver disease and spleen lesions, which will follow the trend and frustrate the spleen and stomach. Then phlegm-dampness will be endogenous and continue to develop, and then passed down from generation to generation, eventually forming the maternal disease in the five elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and the normal physiological function of endogenous restraint in the human body will be destroyed, and several dirty or dirty diseases will be affected, such as menstrual disorders in women, impotence and premature ejaculation in men, and obesity. And one of the most dangerous signals is that the mood is getting lower and lower, even underestimating yourself.