What is hyperlipidemia?

  Hyperlipidemia is a disorder of lipid metabolism in the body leading to an increase in blood lipid levels, and this leads to a series of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, and is closely related to the development of stroke, myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, diabetes, hypertension and fatty liver, and is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. Hyperlipidemia is generally diagnosed in adults with fasting serum total cholesterol >5.72 mmol/L or triglycerides >1.70 mmol/L or HDL <0.91 mmol/L. In recent years, the incidence of hyperlipidemia has increased significantly with the influence of various factors such as changes in people's living habits, especially dietary habits, and the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases caused by this disease is often high, dangerous and progresses dangerously. Hyperlipidemia is becoming an invisible killer that devours human health. To avoid the harm of hyperlipidemia, there are three major prevention and treatment principles: changing dietary habits and promoting a scientific and reasonable diet structure; establishing good habits and promoting a healthy lifestyle; and timely application of drugs for systematic treatment.  1, limit high-fat food: hyperlipidemia patients should strictly choose foods with low cholesterol content, such as vegetables, soybean products, lean meat, jellyfish, etc., especially eat more vegetables containing more fiber. Various vegetable oils, such as peanut oil, soybean oil, canola oil, etc. are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, while animal oils, such as lard, mutton oil, butter, mainly contain saturated fatty acids. Food cholesterol all from animal oil food, egg yolk, animal offal, fish roe and brain, etc., containing high cholesterol, should be avoided or used sparingly.  2, change the way to cook: high blood fat patients should be less oil, as far as possible to steam, boil, cold pam mainly. Eat less fried food.  3, hyperlipidemia patients should limit sweet food: sugar can be converted into endogenous triglycerides in the liver, so that the concentration of triglycerides in the plasma increases, so the intake of sweet food should be limited.  4.Patients with hyperlipidemia should reduce weight: for people whose weight exceeds the normal standard, they should gradually reduce their weight under the guidance of doctors, and it is appropriate to lose 1-2 kg per month. The dietary principles when reducing weight are low fat, low sugar and sufficient protein.  5, strengthen physical activity and physical exercise: physical activity can not only increase the consumption of caloric energy, but also enhance the metabolism of the body, which is conducive to the transport and decomposition of triglycerides, thus reducing the lipids in the blood, and has the effect of regulating blood lipids and preventing cardiovascular diseases.  Western medicine treatment for hyperlipidemia includes statins, fibrates, niacin and other drugs, however, they all take longer time, have certain side effects in long-term use, most of them have impaired liver function, and blood lipids are easy to rebound after stopping the medicine. Chinese medicine has its own characteristics for the treatment of hyperlipidemia, which is effective in treating both the symptoms and the root cause, with low price and little side effects, high safety and significant improvement of clinical symptoms. According to the age of patients admitted to our hyperlipidemia clinic, and after systematic observation, we conclude that the pathological nature of hyperlipidemia always belongs to the deficiency of the root and the symptoms of the symptoms. This deficiency is mainly due to the deficiency of Yang Qi in the spleen and kidney, or the deficiency of Yin and blood in the liver and kidney, while the symptomatic deficiency is mainly due to the internal accumulation of phlegm and stagnation of blood, resulting in the interconnection of phlegm and stagnation of blood. The treatment should be to nourish the deficiency and eliminate the evil, and treat both the symptoms and the root cause. Clinically, "tonifying the liver and kidneys, relieving depression in the liver, activating blood and clearing heat, and inducing turbidity" is the main method, which has achieved good results.