Depression is not only mental disorder

Depression, like cardiovascular disease, has become one of the most common ailments of our time. According to some estimates, it also affects up to 20% of the population in developed countries.

It is a severe disease which has a negative impact on all spheres of human life, reduced efficiency, loss of interest in life, spoil relations in the family, crumbling social ties. In severe cases, depression is a threat to human life.

Depression can last a few weeks or even several months. Depressed people are always sad, they do not feel a sense of joy for them, making any decision becomes an impossible task, their thoughts are constantly full of pessimism, changing their psychometrika. They see everything in black color, they have a distorted perception of the external world, but inside they feel empty.





The feeling of its value in humans is almost completely absent. Even minor deeds and intentions, the implementation of which had not required any effort, rise to the level of insoluble problems and insurmountable difficulties.

The causes that lead a person to depression, is still not well understood, sometimes it arises seemingly out of nowhere. Often this condition is perceived by the patient and others as a manifestation of bad character, laziness and selfishness, promiscuity or natural pessimism. A man tries to cope with the disease himself, but is often powerless. But modern medicine is not always able to help.

Modern Western medicine is divided into many narrow areas – cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology... in addition, it explores the physiology and psychology of a person separately from each other, like diseases of the soul and body are not linked.

When a patient comes to the reception, let's say, a cardiologist, and the doctor understands that in addition to heart problems the patient has and other problems in the body, the cardiologist will not deal with these problems, in the best case, advise the patient to visit another practitioner. Similarly, the psychologist or psychiatrist rarely tries to find out whether some bodily disease is the cause of mental illness.

This is the fundamental difference between the approaches of Western medicine from Chinese medicine, which explores the body as a whole system and not separate physiology from psychology.

According to the tenets of Chinese medicine, joy is responsible for the heart, anger the liver, pensiveness is the emotion of the spleen, sadness lung, fear and anxiety are emotions of the kidneys. That is, each emotion corresponds to a certain internal organ.

Emotional state can disrupt the normal functioning of the body and disruption of some organs can affect feelings, mood and mental state.

Irritability, melancholy and pensiveness ("many ideas" in the terminology of Chinese medicine) are the most common manifestations of depression. Irritability and anger disturbs the liver, and problems with the liver make a person more irritable.

Pensiveness harms the spleen, and poor activity of the spleen leads to more thought. There is a kind of inertia – every surge of emotion leaves a trace in the body disrupts the normal functioning of internal organs, and the next time it causes an even greater surge of emotion.

Dirty liver qi, in a timely manner not derived from the body, it forms dense clumps of debris that can be felt even from the outside. Often this debris is deposited in the course of the energy channels of the liver and gallbladder.

When the debris becomes too much, the body attempts to redirect him back to the channel of the bladder. Point Gan Shu (BL 18) urinary bladder channel is the valve through which debris from the channel of the liver enters the urinary bladder channel is the main route for elimination of waste from the body, debris from all channels eventually flows into the channel and subsequently excreted in the urine.





Point Gan Shu, and pang Guang Shu

For some strange reason the dirty qi from the liver channel and the gallbladder channel enters the bladder through only one of the symmetrical points Gan Shu – some people through that, that the right of the spine, the other through the one on the left.

The dirty qi can be stored in the field point Gan Shu, and then gradually to enter the urinary bladder channel and slowly move down. In this form the seal in the course of the bladder channel from the ribs to the buttocks from one side of the spine.

This causes asymmetry of muscle tissues in the back on one side of the muscle tissue is hard and dense, and the other is soft and fine. And the stronger the asymmetry, the grumpier people. Most suffering from depression asymmetry of the back muscles is expressed very clearly. Put the patient on the abdomen and inspect the lumbar region and back, you will understand where is the waste and toxins from unhealthy emotions.

This uneven distribution of muscle tissue can even lead to spinal curvature. I suppose that the curvature of the spine quite often associated with problems of the psyche.

To relieve the patient from these deposits dirty qi, you need quite a long time to carry out massage along the urinary bladder channel. Try to push, to promote the garbage in the course of the canal to the point, pang Guang Shu (BL 28) – point –passage channel of the bladder in the lower back. It will stimulate the release of debris through the channel of the bladder.

Reverie – the emotion of the spleen. When the function of the spleen is to promote the fluids weakened, can easily happen accumulation of fluid in the heart bag – the pericardium. This causes a feeling of tightness in the heart area, which in turn causes a depressed mood, sadness, thoughts are heavy. Massage pericardium channel in this case may give some relief, help to harmonize the emotional state.

Low level of qi and blood can also cause depression. In this case, you need to take measures to replenish energy resources, to attend to the patency of energy channels, this will help to overcome depression.

When tried all of the methods of Western medicine and healing depression does not work, you need to connect the Chinese medicine, to approach the problem not as a problem of the psyche, but as a problem of the General condition of the body, quantity of energy resources and the patency of energy channels. The disease can be overcome if to apply a psychological treatment methods, getting rid of physiological clamps.published

Author: Sinjun, the Chinese translation for Elena Buyanova

 

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