There are many Chinese herbal medicines that have a weight loss effect. A large part of them are used as weight loss foods, weight loss capsules, weight loss teas, etc. The following are commonly used Chinese herbal medicines for weight loss, which can provide good guidance for your understanding of weight loss herbal medicines and purchasing weight loss products.
Rhubarb
Characteristics: The root of the Polygonaceae plant rhubarb contains anthraquinone substances such as rhubarb phenol, rhubarb ketone, and rhubarb acid.
Efficacy: It has the effects of attacking stagnation, clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting bile excretion, reducing the absorption of triglycerides and cholesterol, and thus has the effect of weight loss and lipid-lowering. It can also promote bile secretion, increase the content of bilirubin and bile acids in bile, help digest and absorb fat, and enhance cellular immune function and anti-aging effects.
Taboo: It is not suitable for those with weak spleen and stomach or cold deficiency.
Eucommia Bark
Characteristics: The fruit of the Eucommiaceae plant Eucommia.
Efficacy: It nourishes the kidneys and liver, strengthens the waist and knees, and lowers cholesterol and helps with weight loss.
Hawthorn
Characteristics: It contains hawthorn acid, tannic acid, saponins, fructose, vitamin C, protein, fat, amino acids, tartaric acid, citric acid, flavonoids, endolipids, fresh lipase, sugars, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.
Efficacy: It can dilate blood vessels, reduce the burden on the heart, increase coronary blood flow, improve myocardial blood supply and oxygen supply, relieve angina, and have certain effects on chest tightness and palpitations. It can reduce blood lipids by promoting gastric digestion and absorption, and has a weight loss effect.
Salvia
Characteristics: It contains salvianone, isosalvianone, isocryptotanshinone, and vitamin E.
Efficacy: It promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, lowers cholesterol, helps with weight loss, and has a calming and soothing effect.
Safflower
Characteristics: It contains unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid and oleic acid.
Efficacy: It significantly reduces serum total cholesterol and triglycerides.
Reishi Mushroom
Characteristics: The whole plant of the polypore mushroom plant Ganoderma lucidum or Ganoderma tsugae.
Efficacy: It inhibits the binding and transformation of lipids, achieves lipid-lowering effects, prevents atherosclerosis, and has a weight loss effect.
Chicken Blood Vine
Characteristics: The legume plant Desmodium styracifolium, Desmodium gangeticum, or Desmodium caudatum.
Efficacy: It promotes blood circulation, relaxes tendons, prevents atherosclerosis, and has a weight loss effect.
