The Clinical Research Of Acupuncture Combined With Chinese Herbalmedicine Therapy Of Depression

In the last several decades, along with the development of science and technology, a great improvement has happened in our living environment and the life style. Although with the progress of ages and the prosperity of the society, it doesn't mean the modern life is carefree, on the contrary, the quick life pace, the urbanizational life, and the keen competition bring modern people all kinds of living pressure and unwell.Depressiveneurosis is a kind of neurosis which with long time depressing mood as main clinical character. Its rate of falling ill is increasing year by year, and it influences the person's daily life and work ability. According to statistics, about 15% sufferer of serious depressiveneurosis can lead to death because of suicide. The new medicines appear continuously with its grave side effect, strong addiction and much taboo, and restricts the clinical application sererely. As a result, a reasonal and effective treatment for this disease becomes a problem which is to be solved urgently in our daily clinical work. This topic is mainly through acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine contrast with Western medicine, each group has 20 cases. The treatment efficiency was judged by HAMD scale, After 1 course of treatment, including improvement of symptom and the changes of HAMD's mark. The result shows :the treated group had got a quicker effect than the contrast one, the comparison of the dividing rate was P<0.01;after 4 courses, the comparison was P<0.05, show the acupuncture-medicine group has stronger effect than the Western medicine group; Seeing from the side effect, the comparison of the treated group is P>0.05,another group is P<0.01.From the above result, we can see the treatment of acupuncture-medicine not only has better curative effect, it can reduce the side effect of the anti-depression medicine, is good for the body symptom, decreases the quantity of medicine, consequently raises the sufferer's living quality thus, so as to provide a valid treatment method and project for treating depression. It can be the first method to cure depression and have vast prospect and expandable value.