What are the best herbs for lowering blood lipids What are the best herbs for lowering blood lipids
May 11, 2023
Western lipid-lowering drugs have more or less side effects on the human liver and body metabolism, while Chinese medicine has special efficacy in lowering blood lipids, thus it is worthwhile for patients to make more use of it.
Hawthorn
Hawthorn is slightly warm, tastes glucosinolate, and belongs to the spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It can significantly increase the activity of superoxide dismutase, reduce lipid peroxide, eliminate lipid deposition in coronary arteries and prevent thrombosis, so regular consumption of hawthorn is important to prevent hyperlipidemia.
Lipid-lowering applications.
1. 15g of hawthorn, 12g of lotus leaf, finely chopped into a casserole, add water decoction, drink as tea, each cup can be brewed 3-5 times continuously, hawthorn can be consumed; can also add 10g of zedoary with water decoction with juice.
2. 30g of hawthorn, 6g of peel, wash and put into a porcelain cup, brew with boiling water, cover tightly and smother for 5 minutes and drink, each cup can be brewed 3-5 times continuously, hawthorn can be consumed.
Note: Use with caution for those with weak spleen and stomach without stagnation or those with excessive secretion of stomach acid.
Chinese wolfberry
Chinese wolfberry is flat, taste sweet, to the liver, kidney meridian, tonic liver and kidney, bright eyes, moisten the lung, main treatment of liver and kidney yin deficiency, waist and knee weakness, dizziness and dizziness; Chinese wolfberry has to promote the body's immune function and hematopoietic function, with lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, liver protection and continuation of aging, anti-tumor, improve vision and other pharmacological effects, can be used to treat hyperlipidemia, obesity.
Lipid-lowering applications.
Chinese wolfberry 25g, poria 15g, flat mushroom 100g, salt, MSG, wash and slice the flat mushroom, and Chinese wolfberry, poria placed in a casserole to boil soup, after boiling, add salt, MSG seasoning that is, drink soup eat flat mushroom, Chinese wolfberry.
Chen Pi
Chen Pi is warm, bitter and pungent, with the effect of regulating qi and strengthening spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, and is often used clinically for chest and epigastric distension, diarrhea, cough and phlegm, etc. The reason why Chen Pi has the effect of lowering blood lipids and preventing atherosclerosis is that the phosphoriboside it contains has a lowering effect on serum cholesterol in experimental hyperlipidemic rabbits, and can significantly reduce and improve their aortic atherosclerotic lesions.
Lipid-lowering applications.
Fresh hawthorn 30 grams, Chen Pi 6 grams, two flavors together in a porcelain cup, add boiling water, cover tightly and smother for 15 minutes, each cup can be brewed 3-5 times continuously, hawthorn can be consumed, suitable for the prevention and treatment of fatty liver.
Lotus leaf
Lotus leaf is flat, bitter and astringent in taste. It belongs to the liver, spleen, stomach and heart meridians, and is effective in clearing summer heat and dampness, promoting clear sun, cooling blood and stopping bleeding; it also has the effect of lowering blood lipids and cholesterol, and is effective in treating hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
Lipid-lowering applications.
Wash the fresh lotus leaves, cut off the tips and edges; then wash the japonica rice into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, cover the lotus leaves with japonica rice, boil it over a high fire and then turn to a low fire and boil it into porridge, remove the lotus leaves, add sugar and mix well.
yellow essence
Yellow essence is flat, sweet in taste, belongs to the spleen, kidney and lung meridians, has the effect of benefitting the qi, nourishing the yin and moistening the lung; yellow essence has anti-fatty liver, lower blood sugar and lower blood pressure, and can prevent atherosclerosis; yellow essence extract has a significant hypolipidemic effect on experimental hyperlipidemic animals, can significantly reduce serum cholesterol, triacylglycerol and beta lipoprotein levels, and improve atheromatous plaque lesions.
Lipid-lowering applications.
Huang Jing, Ganoderma lucidum 15g each, Chen Pi, Radix Aromaticus 10g each, Ze Xie 6g. Decoct each of the above flavors with water, extract the juice and drink in 2-3 times.
Cassia seeds
Cassia seeds are heat-clearing and fire-removing herbs, sweet, bitter, salty, slightly cold in nature, belonging to the liver, kidney and large intestine meridians. It has the effect of lowering total plasma cholesterol and triacylglycerol, and cassia seed decoction, syrup and tablets are effective in treating hyperlipidemia.
Lipid-lowering applications.
Fructus Lycii 10g, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, Semen Cassia, Hawthorn 15g each, Salviae Miltiorrhizae 20g, decocted in water with a gentle fire and extracted juice about 1500ml. Drink as tea.
Gynostemma
Gynostemma is sweet, bitter and cold in nature. It belongs to the lung meridian, spleen meridian, heart meridian and kidney meridian; it clears heat and detoxifies the body, tonifies qi and generates fluid, strengthens the spleen and calms the mind.
Lipid-lowering applications.
Gynostemma spp. 10g, Ginkgo biloba 12g, gynostemma spp. and ginkgo biloba washed separately, dried or dried, finely ground, divided into two, put into cotton paper bags, seal and hang thread, spare, each bag can be brewed 3-5 times, twice a day, each time 1 bag, brewed as tea, has the effect of lowering lipids and activating blood, suitable for all types of fatty liver.
Tiger Balm
It is slightly bitter and cold in nature, and belongs to the liver, gall bladder and lung meridians. It has the functions of relieving dampness and yellowing, clearing heat and removing toxins, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain, and resolving phlegm and cough. Tiger wort contains tiger wort glycosides, flavonoids, rhodopsin, rhodopsin methyl ether, resveratrol, polysaccharides and other elements, has the effect of lowering serum cholesterol, scavenging free radicals, inhibiting lipid peroxidation, tiger wort aqueous extract has the effect of adjusting lipid metabolism disorders.
Lipid-lowering applications.
1. Tiger wort (dried root), 10g each time, decoction, 1 time daily.
2. 10g each of Zedoary and Fritillaria, 10 jujubes, 20g honey, soak jujubes in water for 30min, remove the core and put the soaking water into a large bowl, set aside; wash Zedoary and Fritillaria into a pot, decoct 2 times, 30min each time, combine the 2 times filtered juice, back into the casserole, add jujubes and soaking liquid, cook for 15min over low heat, decoct to 300ml, blend in honey, mix well. Drink as tea, it has the effect of clearing heat and lowering fat, resolving phlegm and removing dampness.