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.