What are the effects and benefits of Danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza)? A detailed explanation
Danshen, also known as red root, belongs to the dicotyledonous Lamiaceae family. Many people want to know what the effects and benefits of Danshen are, and below I will introduce them to you in detail.
Danshen is bitter in taste and slightly cold in nature, and its root is used medicinally. It contains components such as tanshinone, isotanshinone, salviol, danshenol, methyl tanshinonate, neotanshinone, protocatechualdehyde, protocatechuic acid, beta-lactic acid, and vitamin E. Danshen is a perennial herbaceous plant, and is the dried root and rhizome of the Lamiaceae Salvia genus plant Danshen. Danshen has the effect of nourishing blood and calming the mind, and is one of the traditional medicinal materials for promoting blood circulation and replenishing blood.
The effects and benefits of Danshen can perhaps be summarized into three main categories:
(1) Promoting blood circulation: it can dilate the coronary arteries, increase coronary blood flow, improve myocardial ischemia, infarction and cardiac function, strengthen myocardial contractility, and regulate heart rhythm. It can dilate peripheral blood vessels, increase blood flow, reduce cerebral blood flow, and improve microcirculation. It shortens the recovery period of red blood cells and hemoglobin, increases reticulocytes, can promote tissue repair, and shortens healing time. It can improve the body's ability to tolerate hypoxia.
(2) Lowering blood lipids: the main effect of Danshen is to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and it is mostly used for the treatment of coronary heart disease. Among the effects and benefits of Danshen, it can also lower blood lipids and inhibit the formation of coronary atherosclerosis, but it is recommended to take it together with other traditional Chinese medicines. However, for those patients with severe hyperlipidemia who want to use Danshen for treatment, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital for systematic treatment.
(3) Protecting the liver: Danshen has an inhibitory effect on various bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Among the effects and benefits of Danshen, there is also the claim of protecting the liver. It can inhibit or reduce liver cell degeneration, necrosis and inflammatory reactions, promote liver cell regeneration, and has an anti-fibrotic effect, and can improve liver microcirculation. If you have hepatitis B, you can take some appropriately, but for no more than half a month. However, if there is no problem with the liver and you are young, I still do not recommend taking it, since after all any medicine has side effects.
Dietary therapeutic effects of Danshen
Danshen is bitter and slightly pungent in taste, and slightly cold in nature; it is a medicine for the blood aspect of the heart, spleen, liver and kidney.
It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, nourishing blood and calming the mind, and cooling blood and reducing swelling.
It mainly treats blood stasis pain in the head, chest, hypochondrium and abdomen, accumulations, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, joint impediment pain, traumatic stasis and swelling, restlessness in warm disease, blood deficiency and palpitations, sores and ulcers with swelling and toxin, and erysipelas, measles and scabies.
Applications of Danshen
It is used for chest, rib and hypochondriac pain, rheumatic impediment pain, abdominal masses and lumps, sores and ulcers with swelling and pain, traumatic injuries, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis pain, etc. It has good effects in treating chest and rib pain, abdominal masses and lumps, as well as irregular menstruation and amenorrhea with menstrual pain, and is often used in combination with Chuanxiong (Ligusticum chuanxiong). In treating chest and abdominal pain belonging to qi stagnation and blood stasis, it is often used together with medicines such as Sharen (Amomum villosum) and Tanxiang (sandalwood).
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