Herbal medicine to support the treatment of heart failure
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is no longer able to supply (pump) enough blood and oxygen to nourish the body's cells and to ensure the cells and organs function.
Causes due to primary or secondary damage after pulmonary valve stenosis, mitral valve regurgitation, aortic valve regurgitation... or due to diseases that reduce ventricular diastole.
In Oriental medicine, there is no such thing as heart failure, but according to clinical symptoms, this disease belongs to the category of symptoms: heart failure, heart palpitations, cough and asthma, phlegm and dampness, edema, blood stasis, heart failure and is divided into many different types.
Depending on the level of heart failure, medicine has appropriate treatment measures, especially for Oriental medicine, some herbs can be used to support the treatment of this disease. Below, we would like to introduce some herbal remedies for heart failure for your reference.
Treat heart failure in myocarditis with symptoms: edema, shortness of breath, arrhythmia. Use the following: 16g each of rehmannia root, ginger, and cinnamon; 10g each of ophiopogon japonicus and turtle glue; 6g each of licorice root and toan tao nhan (roasted black). Boil and drink 1 dose per day.
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Astragalus, a medicinal herb that supports the treatment of heart failure. |
Cure heart disease and kidney disease at the same time: Use the following prescription: 250g of rehmannia glutinosa; 120g of Chinese yam and Chinese yam each; 100g of peony bark, poria, alisma, and ophiopogon each; 60g of schisandra. Grind the ingredients into powder and make into 2.5g pills. Take 4 pills each time, twice a day.
Treat heart failure by increasing myocardial tone. Use one of the following remedies:
Lesson 1:
20g of codonopsis pilosula; 16g each of atractylodes macrocephala, coix seed, ligusticum wallichii, achyranthes root, red salvia, alisma, plantago, and atractylodes macrocephala. Boil and drink 1 dose per day.
Lesson 2:
Astragalus, Atractylodes, Codonopsis each 20g; White peony, Angelica, Achyranthes, Salvia miltiorrhiza, and Euryale each 16g; Ligusticum wallichii, Poria, and Alisma each 12g. Boil and drink 1 dose per day.
Treat heart failure with symptoms: palpitations, shortness of breath, asthma, fatigue, dizziness, sweating: Use one of the following remedies:
Lesson 1:
Red sage, atractylodes, coix seed, Chinese yam, and wolfberry, each 20g; codonopsis, ophiopogon, Chinese clematis, and alisma, each 16g. Boil and drink 1 dose per day.
Lesson 2:
Codonopsis pilosula and Atractylodes macrocephala each 20g; Rehmannia glutinosa, Poria cocos, Chinese clematis root, Coix seed each 16g; Ligusticum wallichii, Angelica dahurica, Safflower, Achyranthes bidentata each 12g; Licorice root 4g. Boil and drink 1 dose per day.
According to AloBacsi.vn