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Heart Disease

Cardiovascular Disease
Heart disease is a general term for a group of symptoms affecting the Heart. It can be related to:
  • Disease of the Heart Vessel
  • Disease of the Heart Muscle
  • Structural Changes in the Heart
  • Blood clotting

These changes typically are associated with age, but may also be hereditary.
Symptoms may include:
  • Chest tightness or Oppression
  • Breathlessness
  • Fatigue after slight exertion
  • Palpitations, beating in the chest

Coronary Heart Disease refers specifically to disease in the major Heart Blood Vessels.

In Traditional Medicine, Heart Disease can be classified into various main types:
1. Heat/Bile: red face, gets hot easily, feels hot in the chest, feels better at rest
2. Phlegm: pale face, wet tongue, heavy feeling in the chest, feels better with exercise
3. Wind/Qi Stagnation: chest oppression, worse when stressed, maybe palpitations with anxiety
4. Blood Stagnation: purple tongue, lips and nail beds, sharp or stabbing pain
5. Yang Deficiency: severe cold, pale face, cold extremities, joint pain, diarrhea

Chronic cases are usually complex and fit one of several typical patterns:
1. Qi and Blood Stagnation
2. Phlegm/Damp Obstruction with Qi/Blood Stagnation
3. Qi/Yang Deficiency with Qi and Blood Stagnation

Treatment principle is generally to move Qi and Blood, relax the vessels, remove any excess and strengthen any deficiency.

Heart disease remains one of the biggest killers, especially from middle age. Anyone presenting with cardiac symptoms should be properly assessed by modern medicine to ascertain a proper diagnosis. Caution must be exercised in using Cardioactive herbal medicines, especially to ensure toxicity or potentiation doesn't occur with western medicine drug interaction.

Primary Cardioactive Herbs of Traditional Medicine
Hawthorn
Lily of the Valley
Black Hellebore
Squill
Strophanthus
Oleander
Foxglove
Adonis
Apocynum cannabinum

A number of other herbs have Cardioactive activity: Aconites (various), Figwort, Water Lily, Asclepias tuberosa, Calotropis procera, Euonymus atropupurpurens, Nerium odorum, Veratrum viride
Toad Venom (Chan Su) has potent cardioactive activity and is used in some patent pills for Heart disease in China, but is largely prohibited elsewhere.

Other Important Herbs in the treatment of Heart Disease
Motherwort
Rosemary
Valerian
Spikenard
Cinnamon
Cinnamon twig
Galangal
Sandalwood
Saffron
Frankincense
Myrrh
Dragons Blood
Aloeswood
Storax
Camphor
Musk
Important Eastern Herbs
Salvia Dan Shen
Dang Gui
Ginseng
Terminalia Arjuna
Herbs effective against Atherosclerosis
Basil
St. Johns wort
Turmeric
Ginger
Tribulus
Notoginseng San Qi
Salvia Dan Shen
Terminalia Arjuna
Sample Combinations for Heart Disease
1. Hawthorn, Mistletoe, Garlic
2. Hawthorn berry with Rosemary, Rosehip, Motherwort, Calendula
2. Lily of the Valley, Hawthorn
3. Lily of the Valley, Hawthorn, Motherwort
4. Lily of the Valley with Bugle, Motherwort, Hawthorn berry
6. Hawthorn berry with Mistletoe, Dandelion, Motherwort, Fumitory, Couch grass, Balm, Rue, Yarrow, Shepherd's Purse (Treben)
Foxglove
Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen, Berg & Schmidt, Leipzig, 1893
Western Tradition

Simples
Hawthorn
Squill
Myrrh
Valerian
Cinnamon
Saffron
Musk
Mistletoe
Lily of the Valley
Frankincense
Spikenard
Galangal
Amber
Camphor
Formulas
General
Tincture of Honey
Tincture of Foxglove
Powder to Strengthen the Heart (Wirtzung)
Aloeswood Powder for Palpitations
Pleres Arconticon
Troches of Musk (Gallia Muscata) (Mesue)
Troches of Musk (Gallia Muscata) (Nicholas)
Aloeswood 8 (Tibetan Medicine)
Aloeswood Clear the Heart 8 Powder
Undying Aloeswood 8 (Chi med a gar brgyad pa)
Prabhakara Vati


Blood Stagnation
Tincture of Saffron
Powder to Move the Blood (Wirtzung)
Troches of Musk (Gallia Muscata) (Mesue)
Troches of Musk (Gallia Muscata) (Nicholas)
Troches of Saffron (Damocrates)
Troches of Saffron (Nicholas)
Electuary of Saffron Lesser (Diacrocon Minus) (Mesue)
Undying Aloeswood 8 (Chi med a gar brgyad pa)


Heart Qi Deficiency
Restorative Electuary (Antidotus Analeptica) (Nicholas)
Aromatic Rose Powder (Aromaticum Rosatum)


Heart Yin Deficiency
Cooling Pearl Powder (Diamargariton Frigidum)
Restorative Electuary (Antidotus Analeptica) (Nicholas)


Heart Yang Deficiency
Compound Galangal Powder (Diagalanga) (Mesue)
Chinese Classification

Simples
Dang Gui
Salvia Dan Shen
Ginseng
Frankincense (Ru Xiang)
Safflower (Hong Hua)
Astragalus Huang Qi
Cinnamon twig Gui Zhi
Ginger
Storax (Su He Xiang)
Camphor (Bing Pian)
Formulas
Blood Stagnation
Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan
Dan Shen Yin


Qi and Blood Deficiency
Gui Pi Tang
Zhi Gan Cao Tang
Yang Xin Tang


Qi Deficiency with Blood Stagnation
Bu Yang Huan Wu Tang


Phlegm Obstructing the Chest
Gua Lou Xie Bai Tang
Gua Lou Xie Bai Ban Xia Tang


Qi and Yin Deficiency
Sheng Mai San (Especially with Shortness of Breath)
Tian Wan Bu Xin Dan
Zhi Gan Cao Tang


Yin / Blood Deficiency with Deficient Heat
Suan Zao Ren Tang


Yang Deficiency
Bao Yuan Tang
You Gui Wan
You Gui Yin
Zhen Wu Tang
Gui Zhi Ren Shen Tang
Shen Fu Tang
Shi Pi Yin (with Edema)
Si Ni Tang
Special Formula:

1. HUO LUO XIAO LIN DAN
    Dang Gui
    Salvia Dan Shen
    Myrrh (Mo Yao)
    Frankincense (Ru Xiang), equal parts
Blood stasis, dark tongue, heart disease with angina.

2. GUAN XIN SU HE PILLS
    Storax (Su He Xiang)
    White Sandalwood (Tan Xiang)
    Costus (Mu Xiang)
    Borneo Camphor (Bing Pian)
    Olibanum (Ru Xiang)
Qi and Blood stasis, Chest oppression, breathlessness

3. DAN SHEN PIAN
    Salvia Dan Shen 450mg
    Panax notoginseng San Qi 141mg
    Ginseng (Ren Shen) 50mg
    Borneo Camphor (Bing Pian) 8mg
(Amounts per capsule

4. BAO XIN DAN
    Artificial Musk (Ren Gong She Xiang)
    Ginseng (Ren Shen )
    Cinnamon (Rou Gui)
    Toad venom (Chan Su)
    Storax (Su He Xiang)
    Artificial Bezoar (Ren Gong Niu Huang)
    Borneo Camphor (Bing Pian)
This is prepared as a patent medicine.
See also:
Move the Blood
Heart weakness
Heart Pain, Angina 
Palpitations & Arrhythmias