It is an insidious affliction that affects nearly 5% of the population. A passing bout of the blues or a deep, settled depression, this condition covers existence with a dark veil that nothing seems able to lift.

Chinese medicine offers an original approach to depression: it is the vital energy that is disturbed and gives rise to the symptoms; it is this vital energy that must be restored for the disorders to disappear.

Written in four hands by a doctor specialising in Chinese medicine and a journalist specialising in health and wellbeing, this book first develops the different types of depression according to the criteria of Chinese medicine, in a series of portraits in which you may recognise yourself.

It then delivers practical tips, easy to put into place in your daily life: massage of points or meridians, moxa, plants and essential oils, Qi Gong postures and more.

A way to take your depression in hand and take the first step on the road to recovery.