Professor Wang Yali is good at using Chinese-Medicine thinking to identify and treat depression. She thinks the emotional diseases should focus on the treatment of liver firstly. Liver stores blood, sooths and regulates the flow of qi and blood, yin in Physique and yang in function, the yin and blood of liver are often inadequate, but the yang and qi are often surplus. Rage impairs liver or desires do not achieve, the qi of liver stagnates for a long time, all these will lead to physiological dysfunction of "Liver Yin in Physique and Yang in Function", which is the main pathogenesis of depression. In clinical practices, Professor Wang Yali advocates nourishing yin and blood of liver runs through the entire treatment process of depression. In the initial stage of depression, liver depression and qi stagnation is the main syndrome, the syndrome of blood deficiency is not obvious, the main treatment is to soothe liver and regulate qi, then is to enrich blood and nourish liver. In the later stage of disease, "seeing the diseases of liver, to know the liver will pass to the spleen", the symptom of liver depression exists with phlegm, fire, blood-stasis, deficiency and the diseases of the other organs, the main treatment is to soothe liver and resolve depression, purge fire and resolve stasis, and nourish yin and enrich blood. My teacher used this method, repeatedly acquired better efficacy, now the experiences are summarized as follows, to satisfy the fellow.

Renyan Zhu, Yali Wang, Yingmei Zhang, Renrui Chang, Shaocong Liu. Professor Wang Yali’s Experience in Treating Depression Based on the Theory of "Liver Yin in Physique and Yang in Function". International Journal of Frontiers in Medicine (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 5: 79-83. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFM.2023.050514.

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