The invention discloses a
traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating mental
anxiety. Generalized
anxiety is a clinical common type, characterized by chronic
anxiety and easy to recur and difficult to cure.
Anxiety disorder has the main symptoms of fear and tension lacking definite objects and concrete contents, and is accompanied with vegetative nerve symptoms,
muscular tension and motion disturbance of patients. On treatment, medicaments with anti-anxiety effects, such as benzodiazepines,
tricyclic compounds, SSRIS (selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and the like are adopted generally, but the side reactions are relatively large.
Anxiety disorder can be classified according to the aetiological agents into types of stagnation of the liver-qi, deficiency of both heart and
spleen, deficiency of heart blood, moist heat in both liver and
gall and deficiency of both qi and blood by differentiation of symptoms and signs in
traditional Chinese medicine. The
traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating mental anxiety is capable of soothing the liver and relieving depression, arresting
convulsion and soothing nerves, and is used for treating
mental depression,
panic insomnia, chest distress and other symptoms. The traditional Chinese
medicine composition is prepared from
bupleurum, angelica, chuanxiong
rhizome, tuckahoe,
uncaria, multiflower knoweed stem, fried bighead atractylodes
rhizome and licorice. In the prescription, the
bupleurum is bitter in taste and cool in nature, has good efficacies on treating alternate attacks of
chills and fever, fullness
sensation in chest, hypochondriac pain,
bitter taste, deafness, headache, dizziness and the like. The traditional Chinese
medicine composition can alleviate patients from the suffering of mental anxiety and reduce the economic burden on patients. The traditional Chinese
medicine composition is a pure traditional Chinese medicine oral preparation, and can be safely taken for a long term.