According to the World Health Organization, coronary heart disease and sudden stroke account for 17.5 million deaths worldwide each year, placing cardiovascular disease at the top of the list of causes of death with one in three deaths. This number is expected to increase to 25 million by 2020. In China, coronary heart disease and sudden stroke deaths are also at the top of the list of causes of death. As the population ages, the incidence of cardiovascular disease in China has increased fourfold compared to the 1950s, and is trending younger. Therefore, the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular system diseases is particularly important. At present, Chinese medicine has been widely used in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and plays an important role. In Chinese medicine, although there is no disease name for various diseases of the cardiovascular system, there are detailed records of the symptoms, corresponding treatments and drugs related to them from a long time ago. For example, “heart pain” was recorded in the “52 Disease Formula” excavated from the Mawangdui Han tomb in Changsha. The “heart pain” here is similar to the present angina pectoris of coronary heart disease. The description of the symptoms and treatment drugs of “true heart pain” in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, which was written 2,000 years ago, is also similar to that of acute myocardial infarction in modern medicine. In the process of development of Chinese medicine, not only the names of symptoms similar to cardiovascular diseases, such as chest paralysis, heart pain, palpitation and palpitation, but also the common treatment methods, such as activating blood stasis, regulating qi, tonifying qi and tranquilizing the mind, and the corresponding drugs, such as Danshen, Wulin, Boswellia and Pueraria Mirifica, which activate blood stasis, Chaihu and Yuanhu, which move qi, and Ginseng and Astragalus, which tonify qi, have been produced, but also, through the efforts of the majority of Chinese medicine and the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, Chinese medicine has become the most popular treatment method. Moreover, through the efforts of Chinese medicine and combined Chinese and Western medicine, Chinese medicine has made remarkable achievements in the field of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and basic theoretical research. First of all, through extensive clinical and experimental research, the role of blood stasis and the method of activating blood stasis in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases was confirmed, and the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award was awarded in 2002. At the same time, theoretical and basic research on the treatment of coronary artery disease by aromatic aperture method has been intensified, so that the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease by mutual obstruction of phlegm and stasis has been further researched, and the pathogenesis theory of stasis and toxin blocking liao has been gradually emphasized. In recent years, the theory of luo disease has become a hot issue in the field of Chinese medicine to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. The research on the role and mechanism of the ligament theory in the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease was awarded the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2006. Chinese medicine has not only made remarkable achievements in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, but also formed its clinical characteristics and advantages. Such characteristics and advantages are mainly reflected in the following aspects. Firstly, it is the characteristic of treating the disease in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Due to the remarkable achievements in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases worldwide, the prevention of cardiovascular diseases is receiving more and more attention from all countries. In China, the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases are mainly focused on rescue, drug treatment and blood transport reconstruction surgery after the onset of the disease, and although some attention has been paid to the prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases at present, there is still less investment. However, it is the most traditional medical philosophy of Chinese medicine to treat the disease before it occurs, and thus Chinese medicine places great emphasis on “prevention before the disease occurs and prevention of the disease immediately”. Early interventions in the onset and development of cardiovascular diseases are necessary to control the development of the disease. For example, human blood pressure has obvious circadian rhythm changes, and the disappearance of blood pressure drop at night may be related to the development of hypertension, and the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events is higher in patients with disappearance of blood pressure circadian rhythm. Compared with western medicine, although Chinese medicine is less effective than western medicine in lowering blood pressure and requires a longer course of treatment for gradual improvement, it can bring blood pressure under smooth control and correct its disturbed circadian rhythm to reduce the occurrence of dangerous events. In addition, TCM can protect target organs and prevent complications. The aim of treating hypertension is not only to lower blood pressure itself, but also to reduce the incidence and death rate of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in general. Hypertension, as an important cause and risk factor of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, is still one of the major causes of death from cardiovascular diseases. The main target organ damage of long-term hypertension involves multiple tissues and organs, which can cause heart, brain, kidney and retinal changes, and these complications caused by hypertension are more fatal than hypertension itself. Chinese medicine usually starts from the patient’s specific disease evidence, and works on “prevention of changes in existing disease”, adopts the method of diagnosis and treatment, adjusts the internal environment, improves the vascular endothelial function, and carries out comprehensive regulation through multi-level, multi-link, and multi-target, in order to reduce or reverse the target organ damage and prevent the occurrence of serious complications. For example, the 22-year follow-up study of 556 patients with primary hypertension in Shanghai Guang An Yi Gang in the 1970s showed that the combination of TCM therapy could effectively reduce the stroke rate and death rate of hypertensive patients. For example, Western medicine has achieved remarkable results in the research and treatment of hyperlipidemia, but Western medicine requires high doses and long-term use, and long-term use of lipid-lowering drugs not only causes side effects such as liver and kidney function and muscle damage, but also may cause rash, headache, insomnia, and gastrointestinal reactions such as nausea, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, and constipation. Chinese medicine has great potential and advantages in the treatment of dyslipidemia. It has good lipid-lowering effects and can significantly improve clinical symptoms, reduce blood viscosity and atherosclerosis index, so that patients can achieve a state of “yin and yang secretion”. In addition, Chinese medicine has abundant sources and relatively few toxic side effects. In terms of secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases, in 1994, 66 centers in China, led by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Fu Wai Cardiovascular Hospital, observed 4,870 patients with coronary heart disease. A follow-up study was conducted for an average of 4 years to observe the effect of lipid adjustment by the Chinese herbal medicine Red Currant extract made into Blood Lipid Kang on the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. The 10-year study was the first to show the beneficial effects of Chinese medicine in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. This study has been described as a major breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in China and an ice-breaker for evidence-based medicine in China. Although the rapid development of non-surgical revascularization techniques has become a very desirable treatment for coronary artery disease, the incidence of restenosis after stenting still fluctuates between 25% and 50%, and the prevention and treatment of coronary restenosis has become a hot topic of research at home and abroad. Although the development of intravascular brachytherapy and drug-coated stents has brought hope to solve restenosis, they are expensive and not yet popular in China. Therefore, Chinese medicine can play its therapeutic advantage in the prevention and treatment of coronary restenosis. At present, Chinese medicine mainly focuses on two aspects in the prevention and treatment of coronary restenosis, the first is to promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis. Secondly, the basic pathological mechanism of post-operative restenosis in coronary artery disease PC I is deficiency of Qi and deficiency of Yang, and deficiency of Blood and blood stasis. Therefore, supplementing the heart to nourish the deficiency and supporting the right qi should be one of the important treatment methods to prevent and treat postoperative restenosis of PC I. The specific methods can include supplementing the heart qi, warming the heart yang, nourishing the heart yin, benefiting the qi to warm the yang, and benefiting the qi to nourish the yin. For example, Chen Keji, Shi Dazhuo, Xu Hao et al. used the traditional Chinese medicine formula to activate blood circulation and resolve blood stasis to make rhizome and peony capsules based on the active ingredients of Chuanxiong and Red Peony, and observed the restenosis and clinical events in 335 patients with successful coronary intervention using a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled method. The results showed that the incidence of restenosis and clinical events in the treated group was significantly lower than that in the placebo control group, and that the blood-activating Chinese medicine preparation was safe and effective for tertiary prevention in patients after coronary intervention. In conclusion, TCM is safe and effective for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Therefore, it has become a characteristic of TCM among cardiovascular disease prescriptions. The second is the holistic concept in prevention and treatment. The holistic concept is one of the guiding ideas of TCM in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. TCM emphasizes that the human body is an organic whole body, and the treatment of cardiovascular diseases does not only focus on the state of the cardiovascular system, but also pays attention to the connection between cardiac lesions and other organs; it not only treats cardiovascular diseases, but also reduces the occurrence of complications, and adopts a variety of measures to restore the normal physiological function of the body itself by compensating for the biases and eliminating the evils, The aim is to restore the normal physiological function of the body, enhance the ability to resist and fight against evil, and reduce the rate of disability and mortality. This unique diagnosis and treatment concept of Chinese medicine is important to improve the efficacy of Chinese medicine in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. For example, in terms of drug action, a large number of studies on TCM have shown that both single-herb components and TCM compound preparations often show multi-target effects in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and TCM may be inferior to western drugs in a single action, but the multi-target combined effect reflects the overall characteristic advantages of TCM. Take Dan Shen, the most widely used Chinese medicine for the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease, for example, there is a saying in Chinese medicine that one Dan Shen has the same function as four substances. Modern pharmacological research indicates that Salvia has a variety of pharmacological components, including lipid-soluble component tanshinone and water-soluble components tanshinin and tannic acid. Tanshinone has the function of protecting vascular endothelial cell damage, anti-myocardial ischemia and improving lipid metabolism; tanshinin has the function of anti-platelet aggregation, anti-thrombosis and promoting fibrin degradation; tanphenolic acid has the function of reducing structural damage of cardiac muscle cells and inhibiting platelet aggregation. The application of this formula is a concrete manifestation of the holistic view of Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. In terms of improving symptoms and quality of life to improve the quality of life of patients. Most patients with essential hypertension can reduce the overall mortality rate of the population with the use of multiple western drugs, but there are still some patients whose quality of life does not improve or even decreases to varying degrees. Chinese medicine focuses on the overall regulation and lowering of blood pressure, which can not only eliminate the symptoms, but also can fundamentally release the disease mechanism by adjusting the yin and yang of the body, while correcting the dysfunction, improving the symptoms and improving the quality of life. Improve the quality of life. If long-term use of antihypertensive drugs to control blood pressure can cause dizziness, redness, palpitations and other symptoms caused by rapid drop in blood pressure or side effects of drugs, taking Chinese herbal medicines that calm the liver and subdue Yang and nourish the liver and kidney can not only improve the effect of lowering blood pressure, but also reduce the above symptoms and improve the quality of life of patients. In some patients with angina pectoris whose condition cannot be controlled by conventional western medicine, the addition of western medicine can be effective, while the addition of Dan Shen preparation to invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis and Huang Qi preparation to benefit Qi can show the same effect, and can also improve the general discomfort of patients such as fatigue and weakness. In addition, it has been reported that the addition of Chinese herbal medicine that warms the Yang, stimulates the water and enhances the Qi to the standard western medicine treatment for heart failure patients can further improve the quality of life and exercise tolerance. Focus on the association between heart disease and other organs. Focus on hypertension can cause heart, brain, kidney, retina and other target organs damage; with western drugs can reduce the amount, reduce toxicity, increase the effectiveness of the role. With the biomedical model to raw cardiovascular disease psychosomatic relationship is receiving increasing attention. Studies have shown that psychosocial factors play an important role in the occurrence, development and regression of cardiovascular disease and can lead to an increase in the incidence of cardiovascular events and morbidity and mortality, causing adverse regression in the prognosis of patients. As early as in the Huangdi Neijing, the theory of “the heart harbors the spirit” has recognized the close relationship between cardiovascular diseases and the emotions. In addition to treating cardiovascular diseases, Chinese medicine also uses mood-altering tranquilizers and products that relieve liver and depression. In combination with Western medicine, Chinese medicine has the ability to reduce the amount of toxicity and increase the effectiveness. Such as Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hypertension disease each has its own strengths, and Western medicine in combination can, reduce the amount of toxicity reduction, increase the effectiveness, through complementary advantages, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hypertension disease has achieved better results. At present, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hypertension in good control of blood pressure, improve clinical symptoms and reduce or reverse target organ damage, etc., has achieved some promising results. Third, another guiding principle of TCM in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases is evidence-based treatment. Chinese medicine places great emphasis on the individualized treatment model, which is based on the “time, place and person”. For example, in the treatment of myocardial infarction, the late famous doctor Pu Fu-chou advocated the use of tonic as the main medicine and Tongxiang as the use, for example, in Shuanghe San, 90 grams of ginseng is used as the monarch medicine to tonic the qi, and supplemented with Dan Shen and Panax notoginseng to invigorate the blood; Qin Bowei advocated to move the qi and invigorate the blood, and to remove blood stasis and create new blood, with Dan Shen Drink as the main medicine, and can be supplemented with Shengdi, Agaricus and Gui Zhi; in the consolidation stage, Ginseng and Panax notoginseng can be taken regularly by powdering. Contemporary Chinese and Western medicine practitioners have also developed unique academic ideas in the identification and treatment of myocardial infarction, such as Deng Tietao, who believes that the main pathogenesis of the disease is qi deficiency, phlegm stasis. In the acute stage, 1-2 coronary heart Suhexiang pills should be chewed and taken, and if there is yin deficiency, 0.4g each of artificial cow’s yellow and ice chips and 0.2g of musk should be ground and taken; clinical treatment advocates to focus on attacking blood stasis, and all treatment should focus on / through and treating the root at the same time. The clinical treatment advocates to focus on attacking blood stasis, all treatment should focus on / pass, and treat the root at the same time. The representative formula is Huang Lian Wen Bile Tang with addition and subtraction. According to Chen Ke-ji, this disease is characterized by Qi deficiency, Qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm obstruction, Qi-yin deficiency, and heart-yang inactivity as the common clinical symptoms. This treatment has opened up a new dimension in the contemporary treatment of cardiovascular diseases by activating blood circulation and resolving blood stasis. These rich experiences and unique academic ideas have provided a variety of therapeutic approaches for the identification and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. For example, the treatment of hypertension is based on the symptoms of headache, heavy head, dizziness, insomnia and other physical signs such as tongue and pulse, and can effectively improve the symptoms and quality of life by adjusting the balance of yin and yang. The simple, convenient, inexpensive and experimental treatment method of TCM is another characteristic of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment. It is still a convenient and effective method in the economically underdeveloped rural areas of China and in the urban grassroots community health service networks, and is an important means of disease prevention and treatment for the people. Non-pharmacological therapies are effective for some patients with mild hypertension. For these patients, the application of traditional Chinese medicine non-pharmacological therapies can achieve better results, which has been confirmed by a large number of studies, in summary, there are acupuncture and acupuncture point therapy, medicinal food therapy, qigong therapy, Chinese medicine psychotherapy, etc. For example, the above-mentioned 22-year follow-up study on patients with essential hypertension showed that, together with qigong therapy, it can effectively stabilize the antihypertensive effect, significantly reduce the incidence of stroke and death rate in hypertensive patients, and greatly improve the prognosis. Acupuncture points such as Zhanzhu, Yin Xi and Tai Chong can also effectively lower blood pressure. In addition, Chinese medicine also has its own characteristics in cardiovascular emergency and critical illnesses. In this regard, people may have a different opinion, because the traditional concept of TCM is that TCM is a slow practitioner, which has an advantage in the management of chronic diseases. In fact, as described in the classic work of Chinese medicine “Nei Jing”, which was written 2,000 years ago, true heart pain is similar to acute myocardial infarction in modern medicine, and proposes the treatment of heart pain with dietary allium. 1972, a collaborative group on coronary heart disease headed by academician Chen Keji, with the participation of more than 20 hospitals including Beijing Xiyuan Hospital and Fu Wai Hospital, carried out the combined treatment of acute myocardial infarction with Chinese and Western medicine. In the absence of emergency reperfusion treatment, the combined treatment of acute myocardial infarction achieved clinical efficacy close to the international advanced level. In recent years, in acute cardiovascular diseases, quick-acting heart pills, compound Danshin Drops and Musk Heart Pills have become the common quick-acting preparations for angina pectoris of coronary heart disease. A variety of intravenous preparations of traditional Chinese medicine have been developed for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as ginseng injection, raw vein injection and salvia injection, which are widely used in the treatment of acute cardiovascular diseases. Although TCM has unique advantages and limitations in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, due to the complex pathological mechanism of cardiovascular diseases and the intricate and varied symptoms of TCM, we should increase the research in the following aspects in the future: firstly, we should pay attention to the research of TCM theory system: when using traditional TCM theory, we should develop new ideas according to the characteristics of the diseases encountered, rather than completely copying the ancient ones. Firstly, we should pay attention to the research of TCM theory system: when applying traditional TCM theory, we should formulate new ideas according to the characteristics of the diseases we encounter, instead of completely copying the ancient things, we should innovate and develop based on inheritance. For example, in response to the lack of breakthroughs in the understanding of the etiology and pathogenesis of diseases, some of the more mature theories in the cardiovascular field, such as the doctrine of cardiac complex disease and the doctrine of cardiac heat toxicity, should be further developed and standardized, and the essence of cardiac function should be further confirmed, and objective studies of heart qi deficiency and heart yin deficiency should be conducted; in response to the lack of uniformity in diagnostic and efficacy criteria, hypertension, angina pectoris and heart failure should be identified. In view of the inconsistency of diagnostic and efficacy criteria, we should find out the common symptoms of common diseases such as hypertension, angina pectoris, heart failure, etc., and formulate the criteria of symptoms and efficacy, etc. Secondly, we will further deepen the research on the advantageous areas of TCM, such as the protection of small blood vessel lesions, cardiomyopathy, endothelial damage, stabilization of atherosclerotic plaque, anticoagulation, prevention of thrombosis, reduction of blood lipids, improvement of chronic cardiac insufficiency, enhancement of immune function, improvement of patients’ quality of life, and improvement of clinical prognosis. Finally, to promote the research of prescriptions and dosage forms: first, to strengthen the research of specific prescriptions for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases; second, to strengthen the research on the extraction process of active ingredients of Chinese medicine; third, to strengthen the research on dosage form reform; fourth, due to the increasingly prominent safety problems of Chinese medicine, it is also necessary to strengthen the research on drug safety. In conclusion, Chinese medicine plays an irreplaceable role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, with its own characteristics and clear advantages. With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, we should start from clinical practice, think continuously, and develop it continuously on the basis of inheritance, combined with the research results of modern medicine, and break through the inherent thinking stereotypes.