Salvia miltiorrhiza is a common Chinese herbal medicine with bitter taste and slightly cold nature, which has the effects of removing blood stasis, promoting tissue regeneration, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. Lycium barbarum is a medicinal material with the same origin of medicine and food. Sweet and flat, it can nourish liver and kidney and benefit eyesight. Both of them have no obvious toxic and side effects, and their medicinal properties do not conflict with their curative effects. So Danshen and Lycium barbarum can soak in water together.
2 Benefits of soaking Salvia miltiorrhiza and Lycium barbarum in water: Promoting blood circulation and dredging channels Salvia miltiorrhiza has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dredging channels and relieving pain, promoting the circulation of human meridians and blood, helping to keep blood vessels unobstructed, and improving symptoms such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, rheumatic joint pain and traumatic swelling and pain caused by blood stasis.
Nourishing the heart and calming the nerves Salvia Miltiorrhiza has the effects of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, clearing away the heart-fire and relieving restlessness. Its effective components can help calm the central nervous system, assist sleep, and improve sleep disorders and neurasthenia and insomnia.
Chinese medicine in Yiqingmingmu believes that the liver opens the eyes, the kidney aims, the liver and kidney are closely related to the strength of vision. Lycium barbarum has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing essence and filling marrow. It can improve eyesight by nourishing liver and kidney, and can be used to treat dizziness, blurred vision and decreased vision caused by deficiency of liver and kidney and deficiency of essence and blood. In addition, Lycium barbarum is rich in B- carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in human body, and vitamin A can generate retinol.
Salvia miltiorrhiza has a strong effect of promoting blood circulation, expanding cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases to a certain extent and reducing the resistance of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Salvianolic acid and rosmarinic acid have anti-lipid peroxidation effect, which can reduce human blood lipid level to some extent. Lycium barbarum polysaccharide in Lycium barbarum helps to inhibit the increase of cholesterol and triglyceride in the body, help to reduce blood lipid, and also help to improve the antioxidant capacity of islet cells, protect the pancreas and prevent diabetes. Therefore, soaking Salvia miltiorrhiza and Lycium barbarum in water has certain hypoglycemic and lipid-lowering effects.
Prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease Salvia miltiorrhiza has the functions of promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, expanding cardiovascular system, enhancing coronary blood flow and preventing myocardial ischemia. Its effective components can also help to improve microcirculation, reduce blood viscosity and prevent and treat coronary heart disease to some extent.
Improving the composition of Lycium barbarum polysaccharide in immune Lycium barbarum is helpful to enhance the number and vitality of macrophages in the body, enhance the immune function of immune cells and improve the ability of human body to resist diseases and pathogens.
3 What should I pay attention to when drinking Salvia miltiorrhiza and Lycium barbarum? 1, not too much. It is generally recommended that the dosage of Salvia miltiorrhiza is 10- 15g, and Lycium barbarum should be eaten about 20g every day. It is not advisable to go too far. Salvia miltiorrhiza has a strong effect of promoting blood circulation, and taking salvia miltiorrhiza in large doses may lead to gastrointestinal bleeding. Lycium barbarum has a strong nourishing effect, and excessive use is easy to get angry.
2. Long-term use of salvia miltiorrhiza will supplement potassium. If you take Danshen for a long time, it will cause the loss of blood potassium and reduce the blood potassium in the body. So if you take Danshen for a long time, you should eat foods with high potassium content, such as bananas, oranges, peanuts, potatoes and so on.
3. Don't use it with Veratrum nigrum. When drinking salvia miltiorrhiza and medlar, you should avoid taking veratrum. There are notes in the Eighteen Anti-drugs of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Xinshao against Veratrum, Salvia miltiorrhiza against Veratrum, and their properties are opposite. The same use will produce toxic and side effects, affecting the human body.
4. Avoid taking aspirin, warfarin and other anticoagulants at the same time, because Salvia miltiorrhiza also has the effect of anti-platelet aggregation, which will enhance the curative effect and may lead to bleeding.
4. The taboo of drinking Danshen and Lycium barbarum in water 1. Salvia miltiorrhiza is prohibited for pregnant women. Salvia miltiorrhiza is a drug for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It has a strong effect of promoting blood circulation, stimulating uterine blood vessels to a certain extent, promoting uterine contraction, which may lead to fetal abortion, so pregnant women should avoid taking Danshen and Lycium barbarum in water.
2. Spleen deficiency diarrhea with caution has a strong nourishing effect and is not easily absorbed by the stomach. Eating Lycium barbarum for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency may aggravate abdominal distension, diarrhea, loose stool and other discomforts.