Research Progress of Chinese Medicine on Generalized Anxiety Disorder / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Generalized Anxiety Disorder(GAD)is a common mental illness with anxiety as its main clinical symptom.Its prevalence is increasing year by year,and it has the risk of chronic disability,which seriously affects human physical and mental health.This article mainly from the etiology and pathogenesis,syndrome differentiation and treatment method has combed the GAD′s research progress of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),the results show that the occurrence of GAD may be a stimulus such as poor social life events,applies to susceptible individuals,heart and other internal viscera function disorder,further produce sputum,drinks,water,dampness,blood stasis,fire as the main etiology and pathogenesis,pathological factors.The syndrome differentiation types are mainly heart and kidney non-communication type,liver stagnation and fire type,phlegm and fire on the disturbance type,heart and spleen deficiency type,heart and gallbladder qi deficiency and Yin deficiency internal heat type.Treatment mainly include syndrome differentiation and treatment,acupuncture and massage,etc.,the clinical curative effect is distinct,and the forward curative effect is superior to western medicine treatment,but there is also a lack of objective and syndromes curative effect evaluation standard,lack of the mechanism and system of TCM in the treatment of GAD targets into issues of scientific research,in order to optimization and the pathogenesis of GAD for the future of the diagnosis and treatment to provide reference for further studies.