The Treatment of Parkinson's Disease Depression from the Lung based on Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory
Parkinson's disease is a neurological-specific disease that commonly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. Depression is one of the common non-motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease and has a high incidence rate. Long-term depression can aggravate patients' clinical motor symptoms, and the progression of motor symptoms aggravates depression, forming a vicious cycle that has a great impact on patients' quality of life, cognitive ability, and prognosis. More and more research has been done on the treatment of depression in Parkinson's disease with traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lungs are the masters of qi, and the mind is the source of sorrow. . This article explores the feasibility of treating depression in Parkinson's disease from the perspective of the lungs, aiming to provide new ideas for its clinical treatment, improve patients' emotional disor-ders, and improve their quality of life.