Can Danshen lower blood lipids?

Salvia miltiorrhiza is a common medicine, mainly used to regulate high blood lipids and high blood sugar. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and regulating the body. In addition, Salvia miltiorrhiza can also be combined with many foods. Clinically, Salvia miltiorrhiza can not only treat these problems, but also unblock qi and blood blockages, prevent various indigestion diseases, relieve dizziness and back pain, and is very beneficial to the body.

Hyperlipidemia can be caused by many factors such as spleen and kidney deficiency, qi stagnation, and blood stasis.

If you overeat, overexert yourself, or overwork yourself, you will slowly deplete your yin fluids, which will eventually lead to kidney yin deficiency and blood stasis, affecting the normal transport and transformation functions of your internal organs, causing phlegm and turbidity, and eventually causing hyperlipidemia. There are many types of hyperlipidemia clinically, but the number of patients with phlegm obstruction, qi stagnation and blood stasis, and liver and kidney yin deficiency is significantly higher than that of other types. Therefore, the treatment is more focused on removing blood stasis, eliminating phlegm, and nourishing the kidney.

Here, I recommend a recipe for promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, nourishing the kidneys and removing phlegm: take 30 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 15 grams of Panax notoginseng, 10 grams of Red Peony Root, 30 grams of Pueraria lobata, 20 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, 20 grams of Ligustrum lucidum, and 6 grams of Pinellia ternata, and decocted them in water. Among them, Salvia miltiorrhiza has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, nourishing blood and calming the mind, cooling blood and reducing swelling. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as blood stasis, pain in the head, chest, flanks and abdomen, irregular menstruation, and joint pain. Panax notoginseng has the effects of stopping bleeding, dispersing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It is often used to treat vomiting blood, bloody stool, bloody diarrhea, metrorrhagia, blood stasis due to falls, and bleeding due to trauma. Red peony root clears heat, cools blood, disperses blood stasis and relieves pain. These three ingredients can be used together to open up the meridians and promote blood circulation. Pueraria root can relieve muscles and reduce fever, promote fluid production and quench thirst. It can nourish the spleen and replenish qi to help eliminate dampness and relieve thirst caused by yin deficiency and diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency.

Polygonum multiflorum nourishes blood and yin, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements. It is effective for symptoms such as dizziness, back pain, premature graying of hair, and liver and kidney yin deficiency caused by blood deficiency. Fructus Ligustri Lucidi nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the waist and knees, nourishes yin and produces body fluid, and can treat yin deficiency, internal heat, dizziness, and soreness of the waist and knees. Pinellia ternata can dry out dampness, resolve phlegm, clear turbidity and reduce fat, treating both the symptoms and the root cause. Modern pharmacological research has also proved that the above-mentioned drugs can affect the metabolism of blood lipids by inhibiting the absorption, decomposition, excretion and deposition of blood lipids in the human body through different pathways such as inhibiting the blood lipids in the human body. They can also relieve symptoms such as dizziness, headache, tinnitus, inattention, insomnia or drowsiness, limb numbness, slow reaction and so on caused by hyperlipoproteinemia.

It should be noted that people with a family history of coronary heart disease and diabetes should pay more attention to diet and exercise. They can practice Tai Chi, Ba Duan Jin, Wu Qin Xi and other exercises, and have regular physical examinations of blood sugar and blood lipids. If any abnormalities are found, seek medical attention immediately.