The application provides a
traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating depression and application thereof, and relates to the technical field of
traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy; the
traditional Chinese medicine composition is composed of ten traditional Chinese medicines, namely, flowers of Chinese sweet gum, white daphne,
cyperus rotundus,
lycium ruthenicifolium,
citrus medica, seven
mile incense,
saussurea lappa,
zanthoxylum arms, radix zanthoxyli and lignum aquilariae resiniferum, and the
combined use of the medicines has the effects of soothing liver and relieving depression and regulating and
smoothing qi movement; the traditional Chinese
medicine composition can improve the depressive behavior of a mouse with depression, significantly reduces the levels of inflammatory
related factors IL-6, IL-1beta and TNF-alpha in serum of a mouse model with depression, and obviously improves the levels of monamine neurotransmitters 5-HT, DA and NE of the mouse; the traditional Chinese
medicine composition can significantly reduce the HAMD
score, PSQI
score and TCM syndrome integral of a patient with depression, has a high total effective rate for treating depression, and provides a traditional Chinese
medicine composition with remarkable effect and no toxic
side effect for treating depression.