Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating acute heart attack include Four Reversed Plus Ginseng Tang, Small Trapped Thorax Tang, and Hematophagus and Blood Stasis Tang.
Acute heart attack is often seen in Chinese medicine as true heart pain, which can be categorized into different diagnostic types such as cardiac yang deficiency, heat knotting and visceral solidity, and qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Heart yang deficiency is often manifested as severe pain in the anterior region of the heart, chest pain through the back, pale, cold sweat, palpitations, shortness of breath and other manifestations, commonly used in the four reverse plus ginseng soup delivery of Suhui Xiang Pills to regulate.
Heat knot viscera solid evidence is mostly manifested as red face and heart pain, irritability, phlegm and abdominal distension, dry stools, purple and dark tongue, yellow and dry moss, slippery pulse. Commonly used small trapping chest soup, regulating the stomach Cheng Qi Tang, gua vulgaris Allium scallion white half-summer soup and other management.
The type of Qi stagnation and blood stasis is characterized by dark tongue with petechiae, irritability, and a dull, stringy pulse, etc. It is often treated with the addition and subtraction of Hematophagus and Blood Stasis Soup. It is recommended to choose the remedy with addition or subtraction under the doctor’s guidance after identifying the symptoms.