Occasional chest tightness and shortness of breath under physiological conditions may be caused by emotional tension and other factors, and can generally be relieved after adjusting the mood. In addition, chest tightness and shortness of breath may also be a symptom of “chest paralysis” in traditional Chinese medicine, which can be identified by the use of Allium sativum, Buddha’s hand, ginseng and other Chinese herbs in water to drink as tea.
1. Allium bracteatum: warm in nature, it has the efficacy of promoting Yang dispersal, promoting the flow of Qi and stagnation. It can be decocted and used for the treatment or improvement of chest paralysis and heart pain, epigastric and abdominal plumpness and distension, and the treatment or improvement of diarrhea and dysentery.
2. Buddha’s hand: warm in nature, it has the efficacy of dredging liver and regulating qi, harmonizing stomach and relieving pain, drying dampness and resolving phlegm (expelling dampness and resolving phlegm by drying dampness). It can be decocted and used for the treatment or improvement of stagnant qi in the liver and stomach, distension and pain in the chest, stagnation of qi in the spleen and stomach and gastric and epigastric plumpness and so on.
3. Ginseng: It is the dried root and rhizome of Panax ginseng, which can be used for chest paralysis of heart and kidney yang deficiency. This product has the effect of replenishing vital energy, restoring normal pulse, preventing and treating deficiency, tonifying the spleen, benefiting the lungs, promoting the production of body fluid and nourishing the blood, etc. It can treat or improve the symptoms of deficiency of vital energy, deficiency of the spleen and less food, deficiency of the lungs and coughing, and deficiency of vital energy and blood, etc. However, this product should not be combined with quassia. However, this product should not be used together with veratrum and wulingzhi.
The above herbs can be used in tea to improve the symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath, but the tea is limited in the amount of medicinal ingredients analyzed, and the efficacy of the tea is weak, so it is difficult to replace the medication to cure the disease. If the discomfort worsens or is not relieved for a long time, one should consult a doctor in time and should not blindly use Chinese herbs.