Prescription of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Pattern-Based Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Depression: A Systematic Review

Table 1

The most common TCM patterns diagnosed in people with depression.

TCM pattern	Chinese name	Number of subjects diagnosed with the TCM pattern (%) (total = 1762)	Number of studies that examined the TCM pattern (%) (total = 42)^a
Liver qi depression	肝氣鬱結	797 (45.2%)	19 (45.2%)
Liver depression and spleen deficiency	肝鬱脾虛	425 (24.1%)	13 (31.0%)
Dual deficiency of the heart and spleen	心脾兩虛	315 (17.9%)	9 (21.4%)
Liver depression and qi stagnation	肝鬱氣滯	225 (12.8%)	8 (19.0%)

Six studies examined more than one TCM pattern.