China has a wide variety of medicinal plants and herbal medicines. The new edition of the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine contains 12,807 kinds of herbal medicines, including 11,146 kinds of medicinal plants, 1,581 kinds of animals and 80 kinds of minerals. Even the commonly used Chinese herbs have nearly a thousand species, so it can be said that Chinese medicine is the most important part of Chinese medicine. When it comes to Chinese medicine, most people first think of ginseng, deer antler, ganoderma lucidum and other tonic products, for people who do not know Chinese medicine, these drugs are good medicine, but this is not the case. There is a famous saying in Chinese medicine, “Ginseng is not guilty of killing people, rhubarb is not helpful”, which means that ginseng is a valuable tonic and can take lives if not applied properly, but people generally only know its benefits but not its drawbacks, even if it is not applied properly, people do not think it is the fault of ginseng. But people generally avoid it, even if it saves lives, people do not think it is the credit of rhubarb. In fact, there is no difference between high and low Chinese medicine, but only when it is properly applied can its value be truly reflected. Today we will introduce you to a seemingly insignificant, but efficacious Chinese medicine – Huanglian. The Chinese medicine Huanglian is buttercup plant Huanglian, triangular leaf Huanglian or Yunlian dried rhizome, has the effect of clearing heat and dry damp, diarrhea and detoxification. Its taste is extremely bitter in the mouth, there is a common saying “dumb to eat yellow, there is bitter to say”, that is to say the taste. It is such an inconspicuous, taste and very bitter Chinese medicine, but in the clinical play an important role. It is an alkaloid extracted from Huanglian, which is used clinically as an over-the-counter medicine to treat infectious diarrhea. However, modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that in addition to its antibacterial effects, safranin also has significant cholesterol-lowering, insulin-resistant, anti-platelet, and anti-inflammatory effects, and thus will have a wide and important application in cardiovascular and neurological diseases, which are gaining increasing attention. Clinical studies have shown that after 3 months of oral treatment of hypercholesterolemic patients, serum total cholesterol, LDL and triglyceride levels were reduced by 20%-28%; mechanistic studies have found that flavopiridol exerts its lipid-lowering effect by promoting the absorption of LDL by hepatocytes, and its mechanism of action is completely different from that of statins, but its effect is similar, so it can be said to be an ideal complement to statins. It is an ideal complement to statins. Inflammatory factors play an important role in all stages of cardiovascular disease and are important factors leading to the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. Some studies have shown that the combination of Huang Lian with blood-activating drugs has significant anti-inflammatory and plaque stabilizing effects, which is why the herbal prescription for many patients with coronary heart disease often includes Huang Lian as a medicine. Typhoid readers reading this will surely say, “We modern people are so powerful, a small Huang Lian can tap so many effects, but in fact not. There are 12 formulas containing Huang Lian in the Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases and 7 in the Jin Kui Essentials, including the familiar ones such as Ge Gen, Huang Lian Tang, Xiao Shen Che Tang, Han Xia Diarrhea Heart Soup, Da Huang Lian Diarrhea Heart Soup, Radix Eucommiae Diarrhea Heart Soup, Ginger Diarrhea Heart Soup, Gan Cao Diarrhea Heart Soup, Huang Lian Tang, Huang Lian Agaricus Soup, Wu Mei Wan, Gan Jiang and Huang Scutellariae Huanglian Ginseng Tang, etc. There are more treasures to be discovered in this. A friendly reminder: although Huang Lian is good, not everyone is applicable, the specific use of medicine must consult a Chinese medicine doctor, the sage has told us, discriminatory treatment is the soul of Chinese medicine.