Coronary heart disease belongs to the Chinese medicine “chest paralysis”, “true heart pain” category, Epimedium can not treat chest paralysis and true heart pain, only on the chest paralysis, true heart pain accompanied by spleen deficiency, kidney yang deficiency of the patients have improved.
Epimedium has the effect of tonifying kidney yang, dispelling wind-dampness, and strengthening tendons and bones, and is often used clinically to improve kidney yang deficiency, impotence and weakness of tendons and bones, spermatorrhea and impotence, and rheumatism and paralysis and pain. This drug is not recommended for people with yin deficiency and fire exuberance.
Tai Zi Shen has the effect of promoting the production of body fluid, moistening the lungs, strengthening the spleen and benefiting the vital energy. It is often used in diseases such as spleen deficiency, body fatigue, deficiency of qi and yin, lung dryness and dry cough, and post-disease weakness. This medicine should be used with caution for those who have solid evil but not deficiency of positive qi.
These two herbs cannot cure chest paralysis and true heart pain. Depending on the cause of the disease and its symptoms, it can be divided into various types such as Qi stagnation and blood stasis, heart blood stasis and obstruction, cold condensation of the heart veins (cold evils coagulating and blocking the heart veins), and deficiency of qi and yin, etc. The medicines and treatments used for different types of people are also different, and one cannot simply rely on Epimedium and Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng for treatment.
Coronary heart disease patients need to combine their own actual conditions, by professional Chinese medicine practitioners to identify and treat, not blindly take medication on their own.