Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty, talked about the importance of health preservation in Preface to Treatise on Febrile Diseases. At the same time, he accused and denounced those doctors and people who neglected health care, which was a "worldwide coma" and "regardless of life". He only knows that "glory should be pursued, fame and fortune should serve", which is really "glory will eventually abandon this" and persuade the world to pay attention to life. It can be seen that Zhongjing has a deeper understanding of the influence of emotion on human health than the author of Neijing.

Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the Three Kingdoms, was not afraid of being killed, and his deeds of treating satrap's disease with anger were widely known in the records of the later Han Dynasty. He also "knows the art of self-cultivation" and attaches importance to mental health.

Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, put forward the theory of "nourishing nature" in his book "Thousand Women", which not only sorted out the discussion about regulating the mind and nourishing the heart before the Tang Dynasty, but also put forward his own unique views, such as "keeping in good health in Daolin is twelve less and twelve more", which are the further development of the theory of emotional health care.

In Song Dynasty, Chen Wuxuan's "Three Causes and One Disease Syndrome Prescription" holds that seven emotional stimuli are one of the three major pathogenic factors, which highlights the important role of psychological factors in the occurrence and development of diseases.

Zhang, one of the four great masters in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, attached great importance to psychotherapy in his book The Scholars, made a deep study on the treatment method of "winning with emotion" in Neijing, and created intentional treatment methods such as "learning to be calm".

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the theory of mental health care had new development and characteristics. For example, it is put forward in the book "Death Collection" that although there are tens of thousands of maintenance methods, mental health care is the first. In the relationship between sleep and spirit, it is pointed out that insomnia is related to emotion, and it is advocated that "the method of sleep is to clear the heart" Eight Chapters of Respect for Life also advocates the appreciation of calligraphy and painting, Four Treasures of the Study, various flower viewing, sightseeing, mountaineering and other activities to cultivate the spirit, which is actually the theoretical source of today's tourism and mountaineering to strengthen the body, and still gives us methodological enlightenment.