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- - The authors reviewed medical literature and clinical research to understand why depression recognition is low and TCM differentiation struggles.
- - They propose that aligning depressive symptoms with both Chinese and Western medical classifications can help improve diagnosis and treatment.
- - The study emphasizes symptom classification and differentiation to develop a comprehensive approach for assessing depression, aiming to establish expert consensus and guide TCM research.
Article Abstract
On the basis of medical literature review and clinical research experience, the authors analyzed the reasons for low recognition rate of depression and poor progress of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) differentiation of depression in this paper and put forward that depressive episode symptoms and the corresponding common terminology classification of Chinese and Western medicine should be the breakthrough points. Through symptom stratification and combination, as well as distinguishing between primary and secondary symptoms, the comprehensive integrative medicine clinical assessment of depression was explored so as to further obtain expert consensus and provide a methodology reference for the TCM differentiation of depression and the research of etiology and pathogenesis.
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