Depression

TCM Herbs Associated With Depression

Depression Is Associated With 2 TCM Herbs

Clears shao yang disorders and reduces fever - alternating chills and fever, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, vomiting, stifling sensation in the chest. Relieves liver qi stagnation (often used with Bai Shao) - vertigo, menstrual disorders, chest and flank pain, the most common herb to tre…

Calms the spirit, relieves constrained emotions - vexation, depression, insomnia, irritability, poor memory. Invigorates the blood, alleviates pain - pain and swelling due to trauma, abscesses. The flower, He Huan Hua (ye he hua, ye he mi) has similar functions for calming the shen from liver con…