The Importance and Effects of Traditional Medicine in the Treatment of Depression

Abstract

Depression is a multigenetic or multifactorial syndrome. Directed to the central nevrous system (CNS), single-purpose and conventional antidepressants are inadequate and far from ideal. Traditional medicine has been used from history to the present, particularly for the treatment of depression. Its holistic, multi-medicinal, multi-purpose nature that is well suitable to the therapeutic method of systemic medicine in the treatment of depression.