Although depression is attributed to psychological and mental diseases, in the view of traditional Chinese medicine, depression is caused by emotional disorders, which make the mood depressed for a long time, causing the disorder of qi and the brain out of control. On this basis, it also involves the heart, liver, spleen, kidney and others.
Although there is no disease name of “depression” in TCM, it can be classified into the category of “depression syndrome” and “epilepsy syndrome” according to the main manifestations of depression.
抑郁症虽然是归于心理、精神疾病，但是在中医看来，抑郁症是由于情志失调，使心情压抑久久不得舒，使气机紊乱，脑失所控而致本病，在此基础上兼及心、肝、脾、肾诸脏。
中医虽无“抑郁症”的病名，但根据抑郁症的主要表现，可归属于“郁证”“癫证”的范畴
