Discussion on the traditional Chinese medicine connotation of anger and the thought of differentiation and treatment
Professor ZHANG Yonghua pays attention to emotion and believes that anger has rich connotations.From the perspective of etiology,anger is the internal cause of disease;from the perspective of disease,anger can be a disease alone;from the perspective of disease syndrome,anger is a specific syndrome;from the perspective of treating diease,anger is better than thought and joy.According to the idea of emotional syndrome differentiation,it is proposed that anger can also be divided into three types:violent anger,irritable anger,and depressed anger,combined with the patients'usual temperament,words and deeds,expressions and eyes to summarize their emotional characteristics,and other syndromes to comprehensively differentiate and treat.Violent anger is often related to liver-fire and liver-wind,which treatment is to eliminate heat and purge fire,commonly used decoction of Gentiana for purging the liver-fire.Irritable ange can be caused by internal disturbance of phlegm and fire or excessive fire due to yin deficiency,so Huanglian Wendan Decoction or Huanglian Ejiao Decoction should be given.Depressed anger is related to qi depression transforming into fire and phlegm depression transforming into fire,which can be treated by Xiao Chaihu Decoction and Danzhi Xiaoyao Powder.
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