What herbs are good for cerebral insufficiency of blood supply in the elderly?



Elderly people with insufficient cerebral blood supply can be regulated with medicines such as Nourishing Blood and Clearing the Brain Granules, Heart and Brain Shouting Capsules, and Brain and Heart Tong Capsules.

1. Nourishing Blood and Clearing the Brain Granules: composed of Angelica sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, and Paeonia lactiflora, etc., it has the effect of nourishing blood and calming the liver (calming the wind of the liver by replenishing the liver’s blood), and invigorating blood and opening up collaterals. It can be used to treat headache and dizziness caused by blood deficiency. After using the medicine, adverse reactions such as dizziness and skin rash may occur, and pregnant women should not use this medicine.

2. Heart and Brain Shutong Capsule: composed of Tribulus terrestris, it has the efficacy of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis (promoting blood circulation and eliminating blood stasis in the body), and soothing blood circulation, and can be used for treating various kinds of ischemia. Patients with a history of bleeding need to be used with caution.

3. Cerebro-Cardiac Capsule: It is composed of Astragalus, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Salviae Miltiorrhizae and other medicines, with the effects of benefiting qi and activating blood circulation (replenishing qi and blood, filling up qi and blood in the body, and smoothening blood flow), resolving blood stasis and clearing up collaterals. It can be used to treat palpitation (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic) and shortness of breath caused by deficiency of qi and blood stagnation and stagnation of veins and collaterals. Its adverse effects and contraindications are not known.

If you have symptoms, you should take the medicine under the guidance of a professional physician, do not take the medicine blindly, in order to avoid delaying the condition or producing adverse reactions.