“Thrombolysis” is the term used in Western medicine, as opposed to “activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, breaking up blood circulation and removing blood stasis” in traditional Chinese medicine. Horny Goat Weed does not have the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, breaking blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Epimedium has the effect of tonifying the kidney and yang, strengthening the muscles and bones, and dispelling wind-dampness.
Epimedium is the name of Chinese medicine, warm in nature, pungent and sweet in flavor; it belongs to kidney and liver meridians. It is used for kidney yang deficiency, impotence and spermatorrhea, impotence and weakness of muscles and bones, rheumatism and paralysis, numbness and contracture and other diseases. Epimedium is used for rheumatic paralytic pain, unfavorable tendons and bones and numbness of limbs, often used together with Wei Ling Xian, Cang Er Zi, Chuan Xiong Xiong and Cinnamon.
Note that it is forbidden for those who have a deficiency of yin and are prone to phasic fire (people who have a deficiency of yin and a high level of fire).
In terms of the efficacy of Epimedium, it does not have the effect of invigorating blood and removing blood stasis, breaking blood and expelling blood stasis. Drugs should be taken under the guidance of a physician, do not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.