中文摘要：

抑郁症是一种包括多种精神症状和躯体症状的复杂的情感性精神障碍,其发病机制复杂多样,目前对于该病,还没有一个完整的病机学说。历来抑郁症多从肝郁论治,但现代一些学者通过临床或实验研究发现本病从“心阳郁遏”“心胆阳虚”“思则气结”“肾阳虚”“肺气郁、肺阴虚”等除肝以外的其他四藏入手治疗亦能收到良好效果,打破了抑郁症多从肝论治的传统,创新了抑郁症的基本病机,对后世医家在本病的病机认识上起到了启示的作用,为抑郁症的治疗提供了理论基础和依据。

英文摘要：

Depression is a complex affective disorder include a variety of psychiatric symptoms and somatic symptoms, its pathogenesis is complex and diverse, there is not a complete theory of pathogenesis for this disease at present. Depression has always been explained by liver stagnation theory, But some scholars of modern clinical or experimental study found that the disease can also receive good results through the other four zang-organs treatment, such as ＂obstruction of heart yang＂, ＂yang deficiency of heart and gallbladder＂, ＂contemplation causing qi stagnation＂, ＂kidney yang deficiency＂, ＂inhibited lung qi, lung yin deficiency＂, they broke the depression has always been explained by ＂liver stagnation theory and innovated the basic pathogenesis of depression, they provided a theoretical basis and foundation for the treatment of depression. The revelation and understanding of the disease playe a important role for doctors in the future.