Forgetfulness, anxiety, depression, insomnia, irritability, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), stress, addiction, withdrawal and detox, and smoking cessation.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) looks at the psychological and emotional world in a different way than Western Biomedicine does.  The part of you that says 'I exist' - your soul, spirit, mind, intellect, etc - is called 'Shen' in Chinese.  The Shen resides in the Heart and permeates the entire body through the network of blood vessels, therefore one's spirit is represented in every part of one's physical body.  TCM recognises that there are organic issues at play in emotional disharmony and covering these issues over with prescription medications is not necessarily the only answer.  For example, some of the hormones that affect the mood are produced in the digestive tract, so in some digestive system disorders a patient can present with depression, whilst the digestive problem is not apparent (serotonin, for example, is mostly produced by the enterochromaffin cells in the gut, and it regulates intestinal movement, as well as being an important contributor to feelings of well being).  So the patient goes to their GP and is given an antidepressant to settle the mood, but nothing is actually done about the cause of the problem. In other words, sometimes the emotional world needs to be looked at with fresh eyes, using traditional frameworks to get to the Heart of the matter.