What are the herbal treatment options for atherosclerosis

Arteriosclerosis from the TCM point of view has a deficiency-reality distinction, including deficiency of qi and blood, yin and yang, and phlegm and blood stasis blockage, which should be identified and treated according to the clinical symptoms and eventually proposed as a treatment plan. The more common clinical mechanism is blood stasis and blood blockage, so Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment plan is based on the method of activating blood circulation and resolving blood stasis, commonly used Chinese herbal medicines include peach kernel, red flower, salvia, panax ginseng and other drugs with blood activating effect, and can also be used to identify and treat with Blood Mansion and Blood Stasis Tang plus reduction. Commonly used herbs include Fu Ling, Ze Di, Kun Bu, etc., which have the effect of resolving phlegm and drying dampness. In addition, when the symptoms are deficient, herbs such as Angelica sinensis, Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis pilosulae, Radix Achyranthes bidentatae, etc. are used to nourish deficiency according to the deficiency of qi and blood, yin and yang.