Osmanthus fragrans soaked in water

Safflower is a common and commonly used medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis in our daily life. However, an aunt with cardiovascular disease often uses safflower to soak in water in her daily life. As a result, her condition has not eased, but has become more serious! What's going on here? How to use common drugs for promoting blood circulation?

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An aunt, 65 years old, with hypertension 160/ 100, accompanied by fundus lesions, thought that she might have blood stasis, and began to soak in water with safflower. Unexpectedly, after using it, hypertension fluctuated more, reaching 180 and 190, and her blurred vision became more and more serious. What the hell is going on?

Yu Lao reminds everyone that blood stasis is divided into cold and heat according to different causes. The patient's aunt can't distinguish between cold and heat because of blood stasis, and her symptoms are aggravated.

The aunt above has a bad temper, dry mouth and bitter taste, likes cold drinks and has a bad stool. She belongs to the combination of heat and blood stasis, and safflower is a warm blood-activating drug, which will aggravate her condition.

Then, how to distinguish cold stasis from heat stasis and how to adjust it accordingly?

Compared with cold stasis, everyone is unfamiliar with the concept of heat stasis. Yu Lao told everyone that heat stasis was actually recorded in ancient books. No matter whether exogenous pathogenic heat invades human body, or endogenous heat caused by liver stagnation and qi stagnation, hyperactivity of liver yang, excessive internal organs, etc., it may make blood suffer, burn blood vessels, and eventually form heat stasis.

1 Typical manifestations of heat stasis

External manifestations are red face, red eyes, red skin or macula, red tongue and crimson.

Other manifestations include local pain, refusal to press, aggravation at night, upset and insomnia, irritability and failure to press, thirst and gargle.

For people with heat and blood stasis constitution, Yu Lao introduced his common prescriptions and a tea prescription suitable for daily life to cool blood and promote blood circulation.

2. Prescriptions commonly used to regulate heat and blood stasis.

Rhinoceros horn and rehmannia decoction: Rhinoceros horn, Paeonia lactiflora, Cortex Moutan and Radix Rehmanniae.

Use the prescription according to the doctor's advice.

3 Liang Xue Huoxue Decoction

Medicinal materials: Cortex Moutan10g, Radix Curcumae10g, and Camptotheca acuminata flower 3-5g.

Peony bark has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and promoting blood circulation; Curcuma aromatica clearing away heat and cooling blood, dredging blood circulation. Camptotheca acuminata is osmanthus fragrans, which can activate qi and clear heat, cool blood and remove blood stasis, and can be used for various blood stasis symptoms.

Usage: Boil Cortex Moutan and Radix Curcumae for 3-5 minutes, then add Camptotheca acuminata and soak for 2-3 minutes.

Blood is warm and cold is condensed. When the cold pathogen invades the human body, it will make the blood vessels spasm, affect the blood supply, make the blood stay somewhere, and cause blood stasis.

1 Typical manifestations of cold coagulation and blood stasis

External manifestations are dull complexion, claw nails and blue tongue.

Other manifestations include chest, hypochondriac and abdominal cold pain, numbness of hands and feet, hypothermia, aggravation of cold, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea in women.

In view of the familiar cold coagulation and blood stasis, Yu Lao also recommended a formula of Wentong Huoxue tea suitable for daily life.

2 Wentong Huoxue Decoction

Medicinal materials: 5 grams of safflower, 3 grams of Chinese rose and 3 slices of ginger.

Safflower is warm in nature, promoting blood circulation, and Chinese rose is warm in nature, sweet in taste and warm in nature, and has the functions of regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals. Can be used for treating qi stagnation and blood stasis, blood stasis block, and meridian obstruction. Ginger is pungent, dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome.

Practice: directly soak in boiling water. You can put more ginger slices to cool, and less to cool.

Yu Lao particularly emphasized that for many elderly patients with heart disease, it is important to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, but there is a more important pathogenic factor, which is often ignored by everyone and leads to serious consequences.

The neglected cause is heart-yang deficiency, and the elderly are prone to heart-kidney yang deficiency, which leads to slow blood circulation and blood stasis after stagnation.

1 Symptoms of heart-yang deficiency

Fatigue, weakness, chills, palpitations, chest tightness and heartache (aggravated after fatigue), pale face, pale and fat tongue, white and slippery tongue coating, sweating, cold limbs, and cyanosis in severe cases.

Therefore, the heart disease of the elderly needs to be based on warming the heart and yang, and Yu Lao also brought you a small tea suitable for the daily use of the elderly.

2 Red Ginseng Warm Heart Drink

Medicinal materials: 3-6g of Rhodiola, 3-6g of American ginseng (or 6- 10g of Radix Pseudostellariae) and 3 pieces of dried ginger.

Rhodiola can invigorate qi, promote blood circulation, and relieve asthma. Modern medical research also has the function of enhancing oxygen saturation. American ginseng and radix Pseudostellariae can nourish the heart, and they are not dry or angry; In dried ginger, the temperature returns to yang.

Usage: decoct soup instead of tea.