Is it really good for your health to take Sanqi salvia miltiorrhiza powder for a long time?
What effect does notoginseng have? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that notoginseng has the functions of stopping bleeding, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain. In recent years, scientific research has found that saponins contained in Panax notoginseng have the effects of strengthening heart, dilating coronary artery, reducing platelet surface activity and preventing thrombosis. Theoretically, it has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
The main functions of Salvia Miltiorrhiza are promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dredging channels and relieving pain, cooling blood and eliminating carbuncle. Some Chinese patent medicines for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases contain salvia miltiorrhiza.
However, there is not a large number of clinical data to prove that Panax notoginseng or salvia miltiorrhiza powder can effectively control the "three highs" or cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and many studies are only in the theoretical stage or animal experiment stage.
As the saying goes, the side effects of many traditional Chinese medicines are still unclear. However, taking salvia miltiorrhiza and panax notoginseng four days a year may not have health care effect, but may damage your health. For example, a study published in JAHA showed that taking Danshen increased the risk of bleeding. Therefore, even Chinese medicine needs to be taken under the guidance of Chinese medicine doctors. After dialectical treatment, it is decided whether certain drugs can be taken for a long time. Moreover, the advantage of traditional Chinese medicine is not the efficacy of a single drug, but "everyone has his own good."
If you are not sick, you don't have to use "drugs" to prevent diseases. Improving one's living and eating habits is fundamental.
If you are sick, it is the right thing to go to the hospital to see a doctor, not to diagnose yourself and prescribe your own medicine. On the other hand, there are clear clinical treatment schemes for "three highs" and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which have stood the test of time and have experimental basis. Therefore, it is suggested that patients with coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction and other diseases should mainly take western medicine and take some Chinese medicine appropriately.
How to prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in daily life?
Develop a healthy lifestyle
Avoid high-fat, high-cholesterol, high-sugar and high-salt diets, which are not conducive to vascular health and thus induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. A balanced diet is very important. Stay away from picky eaters, overeating, smoking and drinking, and eat regularly and quantitatively for seven to eight minutes.
In life, it is very necessary to avoid staying up late for a long time, mood swings and sedentary for the health of blood vessels.
Regular health examination
It is very important to develop the habit of regular physical examination, master the data of various physical indicators and make targeted adjustments according to the indicators, especially for middle-aged and elderly people and high-risk groups, so as to achieve "early diagnosis and early treatment".
Insist on drug treatment
For people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as "three highs", remember not to blindly believe in the so-called "folk prescription" and "secret recipe", and insist on taking drugs according to the doctor's advice, treat them for a long time, and improve their lifestyle.