Atherosclerosis causes coronary artery stenosis or obstruction, leading to myocardial ischemia, hypoxia or necrosis, which is often called "coronary heart disease". Coronary heart disease (CHD) is more common in adults over 40 years old, male is higher than female, and its incidence is younger in recent years.

The heart is the official of the monarch, the main mind and the main blood. Generally speaking, the heart is like the emperor in the five internal organs. It is the commander-in-chief, leading people's spiritual and emotional activities and leading people's blood circulation. Therefore, heart diseases are more common in people's mental and emotional abnormalities and systemic blood circulation abnormalities.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is caused by the blockage of blood vessels supplying the heart itself, which leads to abnormal heart function and is easy to cause mental mood and abnormal blood vessel operation throughout the body. Therefore, in addition to the symptoms of the heart itself such as precordial pain and chest tightness, patients with coronary heart disease often have symptoms such as listlessness, nervousness, irritability, insomnia, chills all over the body due to fear of cold, or purple complexion, ecchymosis on the lips and tongue, etc.

The heart is the hardest organ among the five internal organs. Crosstalk actor Ma Ji's masterpiece is "Five Zang Organs Strive for Merit". If there is another "five internal organs strive for merit", it must be the heart that makes the loudest sound. The heart was formed in the fetal period, and it began to beat at the age of three or four months, until it finally stopped beating, and it never rested for a lifetime. It is the strong yang of the heart itself that maintains the beating function of the heart. With the promotion of this yang spirit, the heart can beat tirelessly for a lifetime.

Therefore, the root cause of coronary heart disease is the lack of yang. There are many reasons for heart yang deficiency. Heart-yang deficiency, inability to push, and slow coronary blood circulation, so there is blockage. Just like the water in the river is not prosperous, it is easy to have some stagnant water that cannot flow.

Blocking coronary artery can be phlegm, blood stasis, cold pathogen or heat pathogen. No matter what it is, the coronary artery is blocked by these pathogens, and the yang of the heart is not enough to break these blockages. The poor blood supply to the heart is what we often call "coronary heart disease".

Treatment of coronary heart disease

Chinese medicine has a good effect in treating coronary heart disease. Of course, the most important thing is syndrome differentiation. Because although the basic pathogenesis of coronary heart disease is yang deficiency, the reason of yang deficiency is deficiency and excess, and the pathogenic factors of blocking coronary artery are phlegm and blood stasis, so we must treat it according to syndrome differentiation, and use different prescriptions according to different etiology, physique and syndromes.

Hypertension is the most common cause of coronary heart disease. As for hypertension, as we have discussed before, its fundamental causes are "depression" and "blood stasis". This is consistent with the etiology of coronary heart disease. Therefore, the way to relieve hypertension is to relieve coronary heart disease.

In recent years, the prescription based on Pueraria lobata has a good effect on hypertension and coronary heart disease. Commonly used drugs are Radix Puerariae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Poria, Fructus Crataegi, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, Radix Rehmanniae, etc. For patients with simple hypertension, the antihypertensive effect is rapid and lasting when the above drugs are decocted in water.

If there is myocardial ischemia, that is, coronary heart disease, adding cassia twig, angelica sinensis and sandalwood has a good effect on improving myocardial blood supply. If the condition is not serious and there are no other complications, the improvement of ECG is certain if you insist on application.

"Heart disease still needs a cardiologist"

As the saying goes, "heart disease needs heart medicine", that is to say, the bad state of mental emotion also needs mental conditioning. For patients with coronary heart disease, besides the necessary medication, mental relaxation and stretching are also very important.

I saw a patient with high blood pressure for several years the other day. His electrocardiogram showed slight ischemic changes and he was extremely nervous. I often do electrocardiogram and take almost all the drugs for treating coronary heart disease, but my symptoms have not improved significantly. He is determined to do coronary stent. According to his actual situation, I first explained that his illness was mild, and then told him to relax, pay attention to diet control, exercise properly and eat small doses of Chinese medicine. After two months of treatment, his electrocardiogram changed and his spirit improved greatly, so he gave up the stent plan.

For coronary heart disease, most patients are worried about sudden death. In fact, this can be prevented. The occurrence of sudden death is closely related to anger and satiety. Therefore, it is very important to keep relaxed and happy, and not to have emotional changes of great joy and great anger. Happy for the heart, too happy and sad; Anger is the ambition of the liver, and excessive anger leads to qi stagnation and blocks the heart pulse. These will block the heart pulse and lead to sudden death.

Excessive fatigue is also a common cause of sudden death. After a full meal, the spleen and stomach of the elderly are weak, unable to transport, and the diet stays in the stomach. Because of the obstruction of upper and lower qi, the cardiac artery is blocked, and sudden death may also occur. Therefore, the elderly, especially those with heart disease, have a light diet for three meals a day, which is a good strategy for nourishing, benefiting and protecting the heart, and also a good strategy for preventing accidents.

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