Hawthorn plus Salvia miltiorrhiza has certain efficacy in lowering blood lipids, but the speed varies from person to person. In addition, the effect of single medicine is limited, and it is recommended to take the medicine under the prescription of physician for better effect. Do not diagnose and use the medicine by yourself, so as not to mislead the condition.
1. Hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, promoting circulation of qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (cleansing the body of foul and turbid substances and reducing excess fat in the body), and is used for meat and food stagnation, gastric and epigastric distension and fullness, diarrhea and dysentery, menstrual closure of stasis and blood circulation, postpartum stasis and obstruction, heart and abdominal tingling, pectoral paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), heartache, pain of hernia, as well as hyperlipidemia.
2. Salvia miltiorrhiza has the effects of activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, cooling blood and eliminating carbuncle (eliminating carbuncle by cooling blood), and removing vexation and tranquilizing the mind. It is used for irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, blood stasis and heart pain, palpitation and insomnia, etc. Salvia miltiorrhiza can also play an auxiliary role in lowering fat and resolving turbidity.
Therefore, hawthorn plus danshen has certain effect of lowering blood fat, but there is some individual variability in the speed of drug action.
It should be noted that, hawthorn should be used with caution for people with weak spleen and stomach without accumulation and stagnation; while danshen is forbidden for people with excessive menstruation, without blood stasis and pregnant women.
As hawthorn and danshen are both Chinese herbal medicines, they should be used only under the diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine doctors, and should not be used blindly on their own to avoid serious adverse drug reactions.