Is it better for heart disease patients to take Chinese or Western medicine?

For the treatment of heart disease, Chinese and Western medicine have their own advantages, and it is not possible to simply say whether Chinese medicine is better or Western medicine is better. Chinese medicine can be actively used for treating patients with heart disease if they do not have acute occlusion of the coronary arteries, i.e., acute myocardial infarction is ruled out, especially for patients with symptoms such as liver qi discomfort, cold clotting of the heart veins, phlegm blockage, deficiency of qi and yin, and deficiency of heart and kidney yang. This is because there are many vasopathic drugs in Western medicine, such as aspirin, Bolivar and other sedative drugs. The efficacy of these drugs is similar to that of the blood-stasis activating drugs in Chinese medicine, but Western medicine does not have drugs to regulate qi, resolve phlegm, warm yang, benefit qi and nourish yin, while Chinese medicine treats diseases from a holistic concept, which can treat both the symptoms and the root cause. However, acute myocardial infarction and other diseases may endanger the patient’s life at any time and require active treatment by Western medicine, which is, after all, slower to take effect than Western medicine.