The invention relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicines, and discloses two traditional Chinese medicine formulas, namely a Huitian prescription and a deficiency and labor prescription which are taken alternately for treating depression and anxiety. The Huitian prescription can warm and tonify the spleen and kidney, promote appetite and calm the mind; the formula for treating deficiency and labor has the effects of soothing liver-qi stagnation, tonifying qi, reinforcing kidney and boosting spirit. Depression and anxiety disorder are high in morbidity rate, great in harm and high in recurrence rate, and there is no effective treatment medicine with few side effects. Clinical finds that most depression and anxiety patients have asthenic symptoms except for liver and gall pulse condition stasis, generally, left and right kidney vessels are sunk, and all pathogenesis of the patients is difficult to take care by only using one prescription. According to the two traditional Chinese medicine formulas, the effects of soothing liver-qi stagnation, tonifying qi and spleen, and tonifying kidney and replenishing essence are achieved. The prescription for treating deficiency and labor tends to tonify the left way, the prescription for reviving the back tends to tonify the right way, and the two prescriptions are taken alternately every day, so that qi, blood, yin and yang on the left and right sides can be balanced and supplemented while soothing liver-qi stagnation; the traditional Chinese medicine not only relieves depression and anxiety symptoms, but also can promote appetite and improve the qi and blood level of patients, and has extremely small side effects on human bodies.