Stress is the "wear and tear" our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment, it has physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or negative in fluence. As a positive influence, stress can help compel us to action, it can result a new awareness and an exciting new perspective. As a negative influence, it can result in feeling of such as headaches, upset, stomachache, insomnia, ulcers, high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. With the death of a loved one. The birth of a child, a job promotion, or a new relationship. We experience stress as we readjust our lives, in so adjusting to different circumstances, stress will help or hinder us depending on how we react to it,

In TCM works, there are various names for this problem, according to the different manifestations, for instance, stress to much means "think over", "worry", "yu zheng", "fu zhao", "ben tuen qi", "mei he qi" etc

Etiology and pathogenesis

This problem is basically due to over think damage to Qi, blood and organs by the excessive seven emotions (happy, anger, worry, think sad, fear, start). Inducing stagnancy of liver function. Hyperactivity of Fire due to prolonged liver stasis, damage to Qi, blood and organ, especially damage Heart and Spleen, leads to Deficiency of Function of Heart and Spleen. For example, in normal condition, when you eat food, all body’s blood to stomach for digestion, after one hour, the food is completely digested. Your stomach is relaxed, when you eat food, if you think you business, or worry, anger has mental stress, more blood to you head, no enough blood for digestion. The food stay in your stomach to long to go had to produce toxin to damage your body, you will feel general discomfort, loss appetite, acratia and weakness etc.

Type and Treatment:

1. Treatment for stagnancy of Liver Function type.

Symptoms and signs, spirit depressed, mood be unsafe, bloated with loss appetite, anxious, menstrual irregularity etc, tongue red and covert with white dirty fur pulse being taut and strong.

2. Treatment for Deficiency of Both Heart and Spleen.

Symptoms and Signs: think too much and Worry too much, nervous and perturbed, loss appetite, insomnia, tossing and turning, broken sleep, forgetful, pale face, dizziness, weakness, listless, sluggish, tongue pink and covered thinner white fur, pulse being thin and weakness.

Therapeutic Method: Replenish Heart and Invigorating Spleen. Tonifying Blood and Supplement Vital essence.

Recipe: Modified Gui Pi Tang.

Proprietary: Gui Pi Wan or Yang Xue An Shen Wan.

Acupuncture and Acupressure.

1. Body Acupuncture: Point: Nei Guan, He Gu, Shen Min, Shan Yen Jiao, Shen Shu, Xin Shu, Pi Shu, Method: mild Reinforcement and mild Reduction. Mild Reduction.

2. EAR Acupuncture: Point, Heart, Shen Men, Spleen, Kidney, Pizixia, Mild Stimulating.

3. Acupressure: Method of An Shen.

4.Qi Gueng and Tai Ji Therapy.

5. Food therapy: Cook Soup with Lily Bulb, Longan Aril, and Nelumbinis, Lotus root.

Comment: West Medicine Pharmacological therapy is directed toward the relief of specific symptoms experienced by the individual patient. These medicine including Antidepressants, Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Sleeping pills etc. Only for symptoms, not care the problem, after some hours, the drug is gone. The symptom will back. Patients with stress appear particularly sensitive to many medications, especially those that affect the central nervous system, thus. It is important to remember that use of any drug for symptom relief should be attempted only if an underlying cause for the symptom in question has not been found, the best example is use of a sleep-enhancing medication for non-restorative sleep. Although the patient may state that they sleep better, the sleep disorder remains obscured and thus treatment of the sleep disorder not given. It is also important to remember that all medications can cause untoward side effect. Chinese Herbal Medicine all is natural Material. Acupuncture and Acupressure all are natural therapy. Those treatments all are regulating nervous system, give you good balance, and make you relax. Those treatment all are basic treatment, you can completely cured and no side effect.

Nursing and Prevention

1. Your problem related to sensitive nerves, keep a happy and relaxing state of mind, avoid over anxious, mental stress, anger, especially in taking meal.

2. If neurosis and sleepless exist in, treated at the same time.

3. Take enough rest and refrain from overwork. Trace the inducing factors and reduce relapsing.

4. Reduce the intensity of your emotional reactions to stress, if anything your felling unhappy, talk to you family, your partner, your friends, or cry, you can think tomorrow will be better, you are worse than someone but better than someone. Don’t introvert or dejected.

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