Everyone wants to have a perfect body shape, but not everyone can achieve it. Although there are many weight loss products available now, I believe that using traditional Chinese medicine for weight loss is a good method, as it has minimal or no side effects. Let's take a look at some common Chinese herbal medicines and herbal teas for weight loss.
There are many Chinese herbs that have weight loss effects. Here are a few that have very good results, such as hawthorn, rhubarb, and chicken blood vine.
Rhubarb
Characteristics: The root of the Polygonaceae plant rhubarb contains substances such as rhubarb phenol, rhubarb flavonoids, and rhubarb acid.
Efficacy: It has the functions of promoting bowel movements, clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting bile excretion, reducing the absorption of triglycerides and cholesterol, and has a weight loss and lipid-lowering effect. It can also promote bile secretion, increase the content of bilirubin and bile acids in bile, help digest and absorb fat, and enhance cell immune function and anti-aging effects.
Contraindications: It should not be taken by those with weak spleen and stomach or cold constitution.
Niuzhizi (Chinese wolfberry fruit)
Characteristics: The fruit of the Oleaceae plant niuzhizi.
Efficacy: It nourishes the kidneys and liver, strengthens the waist and knees, lowers triglycerides and cholesterol.
Hawthorn
Characteristics: It contains hawthorn acid, tannic acid, saponins, fructose, vitamin C, protein, fat oil, amino acids, tartaric acid, citric acid, flavonoids, internal fat, fresh lipase, sugars, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.
Efficacy: It can dilate blood vessels, reduce cardiac load, increase coronary blood flow, improve myocardial blood supply and oxygen supply, relieve angina, and has certain therapeutic effects on chest tightness and palpitations. It can lower blood lipids by promoting the digestion and absorption of fat through spleen and reducing food stagnation.
Danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza)
Characteristics: It contains danshensu, salvianolic acid, tanshinone, and vitamin E.
Efficacy: It promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, lowers blood lipids, 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.
Lingzhi (Reishi mushroom)
Characteristics: The whole plant of the porous fungus plant purple or red reishi.
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 Mucuna macrocarpa, also known as white-flowered oil hemp vine, fragrant-flowered rock vine, or leaf rock bean vine.
Efficacy: It promotes blood circulation and relaxes tendons, prevents atherosclerosis, and has a weight loss effect.
