How does TCM discuss mental illness?

Mental illness has been known for a long time, but there is no unified name. Until the emergence of modern medicine, many mental diseases were collectively referred to as mental illness. Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of research on mental illness and has a certain understanding of the causes of mental illness. Let's look at how Chinese medicine explains the causes of mental illness.

① Pathogenesis of mental illness: sadness of spleen, anger hurting liver, ups and downs, qi stagnation, leading to schizophrenia.

2. Blood stasis: imbalance of yin and yang and poor qi movement will cause stagnation of qi and blood. The cause of mental illness is that the subtle qi and blood of zang-fu organs can't reach Rong Shen Yuan's marrow sea, which leads to insanity and confusion.

3. Phlegm knot: seven emotions are not smooth, qi activity is not smooth, or congenital injury and weak temper lead to endogenous phlegm. Phlegm and qi stagnation, confusion. You can also go crazy because the five senses turn into fire, and the liquid turns into phlegm, and the phlegm and fire compete and disturb the gods.

4. Fire depression: Fire pathogen can be caused by dirty fire and Yangming fever, or by exhaustion of five internal organs and stagnation of qi and phlegm. Evil fire can't be surpassed, or it fights with qi, or it is bound with phlegm. If it is disturbed, it will be chaotic. This is one of the causes of mental illness.

This is the interpretation of mental illness by Chinese medicine, and some of it is consistent with the understanding of western medicine. The purpose of understanding the etiology of mental illness is to treat mental illness, choose a professional psychiatric hospital for treatment, and do the right medicine instead of going to the hospital blindly.