The correct way to take both Salvia miltiorrhiza and Hawthorn is by decoction.
1. The effects of Salvia miltiorrhiza are activating blood circulation to dispel blood stasis, promoting menstruation to relieve pain, clearing the heart to remove vexation, and cooling the blood to eliminate carbuncles (eliminating carbuncles and swellings by cooling the blood).
This drug can be used in treating menstrual disorders with blood stasis and obstruction, dysmenorrhea and menstrual closure, blood stasis and chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), hypochondriac and abdominal dystocia (pain in the chest and ribs and all over the abdomen), heat paralysis and pain, and disturbed heart and insomnia. This drug is used for decoction, if used for activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, it should be boiled in wine. It should be noted that this medicine should not be used together with veratrum.
2. Hawthorn is effective in eliminating food and strengthening stomach, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (cleansing the body of impurities and reducing excess fat), promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis, and can be used in treating stagnation of meat and food, gastric and epigastric distension and fullness, diarrhea and dysentery, hyperlipidemia, dysmenorrhea, and thoracic paralysis and heartache (stuffy pain in the chest), and other diseases. This medicine is taken by decoction.
If you feel unwell, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time and follow the doctor’s instructions, do not blindly use the medicine on your own, so as not to delay the condition.