CHENG Kun, ZHANG Junping, First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Chinese Medicine. RUAN Shiyi’s Experience in Treating Geriatric Depression[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2017, 58(13): 1097-1099.
CHENG Kun, ZHANG Junping, First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Chinese Medicine. RUAN Shiyi’s Experience in Treating Geriatric Depression[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2017, 58(13): 1097-1099.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2017.13.005.
This article is to introduce Professor RUAN Shiyi’s experience in treating geriatric depression based on the theory of three Zang-viscera trinity of heart-liver-kidney. Grounded on the pathogenesis features of the seniors’ deficiency of heart
liver and kidney
as well as malnutrition of heart spirit
Prof. RUAN puts forward that the root of the depression is at heart
the regulation at liver
the source at kidney. Prof. RUAN treats geriatric depression from the theory of three Zang-viscera trinity of heart-liver-kidney. Nourishing heart and invigorating kidney is to regulate liver. Thus heart spirit might be nourished and depression might be relieved.