Promoting Blood Circulation and Removing Blood Stasis: The Power of Danshen Wine

Danshen is a common Chinese herbal medicine with many benefits and effects. It is a good medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Due to fast-paced lifestyles and irregular schedules, many middle-aged people experience symptoms of blood stasis, such as purple veins under the tongue, forgetfulness, dry skin, chest tightness, and dark complexion. What should you do if you have blood stasis? Drinking Danshen wine can help promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and clear blood vessel debris.

Blood Circulation and Blood Stasis Wine

1. Danshen and Lingzhi Wine

Ingredients: 60g Lingzhi, 10g Danshen, 10g Sanqi, 1000ml rice wine.

Method:

1. Crush the herbs into powder and place them in a clean container;

2. Add rice wine, seal the container, and soak for 7-10 days. Then, open the container, filter out the residue, and transfer the clear wine into a bottle for later use.

Benefits:

1. Lingzhi: It benefits essence and energy, strengthens tendons and bones, promotes joint health, nourishes the lungs and kidneys, calms the spleen and mind, prolongs life, and enhances complexion.

2. Danshen: It promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, and calms the heart and mind.

3. Sanqi: It resolves blood stasis, stops bleeding, and promotes blood circulation and pain relief.

4. Danshen and Lingzhi wine: It nourishes the blood, supplements deficiencies, promotes blood circulation, and relieves pain.

2. Danshen Blood Circulation Wine

Ingredients: 120g Danshen, 1000ml white wine, and some rock sugar.

Method:

1. Crush Danshen into coarse powder, wrap it in a cloth bag, and tie the bag tightly;

2. Place it in a clean container, pour in white wine, soak for 5 days, remove the residue, and add rock sugar.

Benefits:

1. Calming the mind: Danshen has a bitter taste and a slightly cold nature. It enters the heart and liver meridians and has the effect of calming the mind and relieving agitation.

2. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis: Danshen has the function of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, cooling the blood, and dissipating abscesses. It has a therapeutic effect on diseases such as liver and spleen enlargement and heart diseases.

3. Danshen blood circulation wine: When Danshen is combined with wine, it can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, regulate menstruation, and smooth the meridians.

3. Danshen and Songjie Wine

Ingredients: 10g Danshen, 50g Songjie, 15g Dihuang, 15g Niubanggen, 5g Guixin, 5000ml yellow wine.

Method:

1. Remove impurities from all the herbs, peel the Niubanggen, grind all the herbs into coarse powder, and put them in a silk bag (or cheesecloth bag);

2. Put the bag in a porcelain jar, pour in the yellow wine, and seal the jar. Shake it once a day. After 14 days, open the jar, filter the herbal wine, and transfer it into bottles for later use.

Benefits:

1. Songjie: It dispels wind and dampness, activates collaterals, and relieves pain; Niubanggen dispels wind-heat and reduces swelling and toxicity.

2. Dihuang: It cools the blood, clears heat, generates fluids, nourishes yin, and nourishes the blood; Guixin supplements yang and promotes blood circulation.

3. Danshen and Songjie wine: It nourishes yin, warms yang, detoxifies, and relaxes tendons.

For those who have blood stasis, it is recommended to use Danshen to make herbal wine and promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and clear blood vessel debris!