Treating Emotional Disorders from the Classification of Gallbladder

This article summarizes the unique viewpoints and experience application of the famous and veteran Chinese medicine practitioner, Professor Wang Xinzhi, in treating emotional diseases from the perspective of gallbladder theory. Based on the physiological functions and characteristics of the gallbladder in Chinese medicine, it is proposed that the "heart mind-gallbladder-viscera" axis dominates the generation and changes of emotions, and it is believed that gallbladder failure is the key pathogenesis of emotional disorders. The treatment of clinical syndromes should be based on the type of gallbladder, and emotional diseases can be divided into types of insufficient gallbladder qi, unfavorable Shaoyang, gallbladder and heat excess, timidity-deficiency, and heart-gallbladder indecision, according to clinical manifestations; based on the basic principle of adjusting the functions of the heart, spleen, liver, gallbladder, kidney and other organs, treatment methods such as tonifying the spleen and kidneys, increasing gallbladder qi, resolving Shaoyang, clearing gallbladder heat, warming yang and replenishing qi, calming the mind, resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis should be used, highlighting the joint treatment of the heart and the gallbladder, and the simultaneous regulation of the liver and gallbladder, so that the mind can be at ease, the gallbladder can be decisive, and the emotions can be harmonious.