“Danshen” generally refers to the traditional Chinese medicine Salvia miltiorrhiza, which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, promoting menstruation and relieving pain, cooling blood to eliminate carbuncles (eliminating carbuncles and swellings by cooling the blood), and clearing the heart and removing vexation (clearing vexation and heat inside the heart), and it can be used for treating blood stasis, ulcers and swellings, and insomnia (vexation and heat inside the heart and insomnia), etc, with the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis. Salvia miltiorrhiza is bitter in taste, slightly cold in nature, and belongs to the heart and liver meridians. It has the efficacy of activating blood circulation to dispel blood stasis, clearing menstruation and relieving pain, cooling blood and eliminating carbuncles, clearing the heart and removing vexation, and is used in the treatment of menstrual disorders caused by stasis and blood stagnation, post-partum abdominal pain, menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea, paresthesia (stuffy pain in the chest) heartburn, bruises, abdominal pain, dystocia (pain in the area of dystocia and ribcage), mass in the abdomen and obstruction, sores and ulcers, swollen poisons, and disturbed heart and insomnia. Salvia miltiorrhiza should not be used with veratrum, which has better blood-activating properties, and should be used with caution in pregnant women. Salvia divinorum should be used under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner and should not be used arbitrarily.