Salvia miltiorrhiza is good for women and people with heart disease.

Salvia miltiorrhiza is a medicinal herb used as a tonic for women, especially unmarried women with yellowish skin, irregular eating habits, uterine bleeding, irregular menstruation, abdominal pain, and swollen and painful joints. It is also used in the preparation of liniments.

According to recent studies, Salvia miltiorrhiza also has therapeutic effects on heart and brain circulatory disorders. This herb is also effective in treating palpitations, chest pain and tightness, insomnia, jaundice, and has a calming effect on pregnancy.

Salvia miltiorrhiza is good for women and people with heart disease.

Ancient texts record the following about Salvia miltiorrhiza:

"Salvia miltiorrhiza has a bitter taste and is slightly cooling in nature. It acts on the heart and liver meridians and is a blood-related medicine used for women before and after childbirth, regardless of whether their menstrual flow is heavy or light. It has the effect of expelling blood stasis, generating new blood, both stabilizing the pregnancy and expelling a dead fetus, stopping bleeding, and regulating menstruation. Its effects are comparable to the Four-Ingredient Formula – consisting of Angelica sinensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Ligusticum chuanxiong, and Paeonia lactiflora (according to Li Shizhen's *Compendium of Materia Medica*). It also has effects in treating boils, carbuncles, and itching."

Do not use if there is no evidence of blood stasis.

Salvia miltiorrhiza

Uses of Salvia miltiorrhiza

- Reduces microcirculatory disorders, dilates small arteries and veins, and capillaries, increasing microcirculation.

- Reduces the severity of myocardial infarction. Injecting tanshinon II sodium sulfonate, in which tanshinon II is an active ingredient of Salvia miltiorrhiza, into the coronary artery reduces acute myocardial infarction. The size of the ischemic area disappears or is significantly reduced.

- Stabilizes red blood cell membranes and increases red blood cell resistance thanks to the tanshinone II sodium sulfonate derivative.

- It inhibits platelet aggregation and prevents thrombosis thanks to the active compounds miltiron and salvinon in Salvia miltiorrhiza.

- Protects the heart muscle, counteracting functional and metabolic disorders caused by oxygen deficiency.

- It acts as an antioxidant, eliminating free radicals that are harmful to the body.

The herbal remedy contains Salvia miltiorrhiza.

Treating irregular menstruation in women, whether early or late, heavy or light, unstable pregnancy, postpartum bleeding that hasn't completely stopped, and joint pain (Compendium of Materia Medica):

Wash the Salvia miltiorrhiza root thoroughly, slice it, dry it in the sun, and grind it into a powder. Take 8g daily, divided into 2 or 3 doses.

Treatment for amenorrhea and painful menstruation:

10g Salvia miltiorrhiza, 6g Cyperus rotundus, 10g Angelica sinensis, 5g Paeonia lactiflora, 5g Ligusticum chuanxiong, 10g Rehmannia glutinosa, 600ml water. Decoction reduced to 200ml, divided into 3 doses to be taken throughout the day.

Treating chest pain, sharp pain in the heart area:

- Salvia miltiorrhiza 32g, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Aquilaria sinensis, Curcuma longa, each 20g; Carthamus tinctorius 16g, Paeonia lactiflora, Cyperus rotundus (processed), Allium fistulosum, Trichosanthes kirilowii, each 12g; Angelica sinensis root 10g. Decoction to be taken once a day.

- Salvia miltiorrhiza 32g, Paeonia lactiflora, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Astragalus membranaceus, Carthamus tinctorius, Curcuma longa, 20g each; Codonopsis pilosula, Angelica sinensis, Aquilaria sinensis, 16g each; Ophiopogon japonicus, Cyperus rotundus, 12g each. Decoction to be taken once a day.

Treating heart failure:

- Salvia miltiorrhiza 16g, Codonopsis pilosula 20g, Atractylodes macrocephala, Coix lacryma-jobi, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Achyranthes bidentata, Alisma orientalis, Plantago major, Akebia quinata, 16g each. Decoction to be taken once a day.

- Salvia miltiorrhiza, Atractylodes macrocephala, Paeonia lactiflora, 16g each; Poria cocos, Angelica sinensis, Plantago major, 12g each; Glycyrrhiza glabra, Zingiber officinale, Cinnamomum cassia, 6g each. Decoction to be taken once a day.

To treat palpitations, dizziness, headache, blurred vision, and tinnitus: Salvia miltiorrhiza, Adenophora stricta, Asparagus cochinchinensis, Ophiopogon japonicus, Rehmannia glutinosa, Longan fruit, Codonopsis pilosula, 12g each; Ziziphus jujuba seed, Polygala tenuifolia, Thuja orientalis seed, 8g each; Schisandra chinensis 6g. Decoction to be taken once a day.

Treatment of peripheral arterial occlusion:

- Salvia miltiorrhiza and Astragalus membranaceus, 20g each; Angelica sinensis root 16g; Paeonia lactiflora, Cinnamomum cassia, Angelica dahurica, Curcuma longa, Boswellia carterii, Commiphora myrrha, Carthamus tinctorius, Prunus persica seed, Caesalpinia sappan, 12g each. Decoction to be taken once a day.

- Salvia miltiorrhiza, Scrophularia ningpoensis, Lonicera japonica, Taraxacum officinale, 20g each; Rehmannia glutinosa, Angelica sinensis, Astragalus membranaceus, 16g each; Carthamus tinctorius, Corydalis yanhusuo, 12g each; Boswellia carterii, Commiphora myrrha, 8g each; Glycyrrhiza glabra, 4g. Decoction to be taken once a day.

Treating nervous exhaustion, headaches, and insomnia:

- Salvia miltiorrhiza, Paeonia lactiflora, Ziziphus jujuba, Cassia obtusifolia seeds, Ophiopogon japonicus, Achyranthes bidentata, Scrophularia ningpoensis, 16g each; Gardenia jasminoides, Ziziphus jujuba seeds, 8g each. Decoction to be taken once a day.

- Salvia miltiorrhiza, Nelumbo nucifera seed, Ziziphus jujuba seed (roasted), Thuja orientalis fruit, 8g each; Polygala tenuifolia 4g. Decoction to be taken once a day.

Treating acute arthritis accompanied by heart damage:

- Salvia miltiorrhiza and Lonicera japonica, 20g each; Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, and Atractylodes macrocephala, 16g each; Angelica sinensis, Longan fruit, Forsythia suspensa, Scutellaria baicalensis, and Phellodendron amurense, 12g each; Ziziphus jujuba seed and Poria cocos, 8g each; Saussurea costus and Polygala tenuifolia, 6g each. Decoction to be taken once a day.

- For arrhythmias: Salvia miltiorrhiza 16g, Rehmannia glutinosa, Lonicera japonica, 20g each; Codonopsis pilosula 16g, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Colla corii asini, Ophiopogon japonicus, sesame seeds, jujube, Forsythia suspensa, 12g each; Cinnamomum cassia 6g, fresh ginger 4g. Decoction to be taken once a day.

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