Is it good to eat Panax notoginseng powder for high blood pressure?

Panax notoginseng powder is a Chinese patent medicine that can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. For patients with hypertension, taking a moderate amount of Panax notoginseng powder has certain health-preserving effects, but if taken in excess, it will cause physical discomfort in patients with hypertension and may even further lead to an increase in blood pressure. Therefore, when taking Panax notoginseng powder, not only patients with hypertension but other people should also pay attention to consuming it in moderation.

Can Panax notoginseng powder be consumed by people with high blood pressure?

Panax notoginseng powder is a product made from the rhizome of the plant Panax notoginseng (scientific name: Panax pseudo-ginseng). It is the main ingredient of Yunnan Baiyao. The main producing areas are in the deep mountains of Yunnan and Guangxi in China. It is warm in nature, sweet and slightly bitter in taste, and enters the liver, stomach, and large intestine meridians.

The ingredients contained in Panax notoginseng powder mainly have the effect of promoting blood circulation on the human body, and there are no ingredients that affect blood pressure. The elderly can eat some Panax notoginseng powder appropriately to maintain their health, but the amount of Panax notoginseng powder needs to be controlled, and the daily intake should not exceed 10g.

Panax notoginseng powder has a very strong blood-activating effect and is a holy medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis in traditional Chinese medicine. In clinical practice, there have been cases where excessive consumption of Panax notoginseng powder has caused blood circulation and increased blood pressure. Therefore, hypertensive patients must control the amount of Panax notoginseng powder they consume and need to have regular blood pressure tests.

What are the effects of Panax notoginseng powder?

Panax notoginseng can stop bleeding, disperse blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is used to treat vomiting blood, coughing up blood, epistaxis, bloody stool, bloody dysentery, metrorrhagia, abdominal masses, postpartum blood loss, retained lochia, blood stasis due to falls, bleeding due to trauma, and pain from carbuncles. Clinically, it can treat upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hyphema, coronary heart disease, cerebral thrombosis, hypercholesterolemia, hepatitis, angina pectoris, hemoptysis, acute necrotizing segmental enteritis, etc.

Precautions for patients with hypertension to eat Panax notoginseng powder

1. Panax notoginseng powder has no effect on lowering blood pressure and is of no therapeutic help to patients with hypertension.

2. Panax notoginseng powder is a holy medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Excessive consumption will lead to increased blood pressure. Hypertensive patients need to control the amount when consuming Panax notoginseng powder and need to do blood pressure tests regularly.

3. Panax notoginseng powder is used as a health-preserving medicine. It should not be consumed for a long time or in large quantities to avoid excessive blood and qi activation, which may cause physical discomfort.