Depression (melancholia): melancholia is a sort of symptom caused by emotional distress, Qi stagnation and visceral dysfunction. The main manifestations are low mood, slow thinking, loss of interest in activities, decreased energy and low self-evaluation, which lead to reduced ability to live a normal life, underperformance at work and low work efficiency. Many patients have physical manifestations such as fatigue, loss of appetite, pain, sexual dysfunction and so on. Therefore, our department has engaged in carrying out the disease management model with TCM characteristics to intervene in depression, and the health education with TCM characteristics, allowing patients to have a certain understanding of the depression treatments, such as medicine administration, the concept and methods of TCM treatment, acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of common acupoints and efficacy, etc. Therefore, patients can self-regulate according to the methods taught by doctors. Our department has changed the old treatment mode in which patients passively obey the doctor's suggestion, allowing patients to actively participate in the treatment process and improve the efficacy.