Myocardial ischemia is a western medical term for symptoms such as palpitations (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), dyspnea, chest pain, etc., which can be classified as “chest paralysis (chest tightness and pain)” in traditional Chinese medicine. If chest paralysis is caused by insufficient qi and blood, it can be treated with Chinese medicines, such as Pulse Sheng Drink and Tongxinluo Capsule. 1. Pulse Sheng Drink: composed of red ginseng, maitake and schizandra, it has the efficacy of benefiting qi and restoring the pulse (making the pulse full and smooth by replenishing qi), nourishing yin and generating body fluid, and is used in treating qi and yin deficiencies, palpitations and shortness of qi, and sweating with a slight pulse. Caution should be exercised where there is weakness of the spleen and stomach, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal distension and loose stools (thin and unformed stools), and cough and phlegm. 2. Tongxinluo Capsule is composed of ginseng, leech and scorpion. It has the efficacy of benefiting qi and activating blood (tonifying qi and blood, making the body full of qi and blood, and the blood veins smooth), clearing the channels and relieving pain (dredging the meridians and channels, relieving pain). Used for coronary heart disease angina pectoris evidence of heart qi deficiency, blood stasis and collaterals obstruction, symptomatic chest tightness, stabbing pain. Bleeding disorders, pregnant women and women during menstruation are prohibited. It should be noted that the role of proprietary Chinese medicines in the treatment of myocardial ischemia is limited, if the symptoms are serious, you need to follow the doctor’s advice and active treatment, and proprietary Chinese medicines must be taken by a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner after the identification of the evidence, and can not be blindly self-administered.