The invention discloses a Chinese medicinal composition for treating tristimania, which is prepared into certain formulations by taking
curcuma longa, St John's wort and
ginseng as raw materials, and extracting and separating the raw materials by using 0-75 percent
ethanol. An animal
toxicity test result shows that 284 times of an adult dosage of the medicinal composition for lavaging a mouse causes no
acute toxicity reactions; a
pharmacodynamic study shows that the medicinal composition can significantly perform
antagonism on acinesia and
hypothermia, induced by reserpoid, of a tristimania model mouse, and can increase the number of autonomic activities and the
dead time for
tail suspension and swimming, induced by the
tail suspension and
forced swimming, of a desperate
animal model. A
clinical research result shows that by adopting a Hamilton rating scale for depression (HAMD) to evaluate the depression severity which serves as the primary
therapeutic effect index, a treatment group obtains a significant
curative effect, the effective rate is 92.3 percent, and compared with a control group, the medicinal composition has significant differences but has no toxic and side effects. The medicinal composition can be prepared into medically acceptable oral preparations, such as tablets, capsules (soft capsules or hard capsules), granules and the like; and the clinical
curative effect and the
pharmacodynamic study prove that the medicinal composition has the functions of
smoothing the liver to alleviate
mental depression and relieving mental stresses, and is an effective special medicament for treating the tristimania.