Treatment methods for angina pectoris, Chinese medicine is good for treatment

Angina pectoris is very common among middle-aged and elderly people, especially male patients. Fatigue, emotional excitement, cold, overeating, etc. are all triggers of this disease. The pain in the chest is obvious during an attack, and the disease is more likely to occur when you are emotionally excited. It can be treated with Chinese medicine.

1. Lack of energy

[Symptoms] Dull pain in the chest, chest tightness and shortness of breath, which worsens with movement, palpitations, fatigue, listlessness, pale face, or easy sweating, pale red tongue, fat tongue with teeth marks on the edges, thin white fur, and thready or intermittent pulse.

【Treatment method】Nourish the heart qi and stimulate the heart meridians.

【Prescription】Baoyuan Decoction. The recipe uses ginseng and astragalus to replenish vital energy and support the heart qi; roasted licorice is used, which is sweet and warm, invigorates qi, dredges the meridians and blood vessels, and promotes blood circulation; cinnamon is pungent and hot, replenishes yang, warms and unclogs the blood vessels; or cinnamon can be replaced with cassia twigs, which has the function of promoting yang and removing blood stasis; ginger warms the middle. You can add salvia miltiorrhiza or angelica sinensis to drain blood.

2. Deficiency of Heart Yin

[Symptoms] Intermittent chest pain, burning pain, or dull pain, palpitations, fever in the five parts of the body, dry mouth and throat, hot flashes and night sweats, red and less shiny tongue coating, thin or peeling tongue coating, and thready or intermittent pulse.

[Treatment method] Nourish yin and clear away heat, nourish the heart and calm the mind.

【Prescription】Tianwang Buxin Dan. This prescription uses raw rehmannia, scrophularia, asparagus, ophiopogon, salvia miltiorrhiza, and angelica to nourish yin and blood and purge deficiency fire; ginseng, poria, cypress seed, jujube seed, schisandra chinensis, and polygala tenuifolia to replenish heart qi and nourish the mind; cinnabar to calm the mind; and platycodon to carry the medicine upward to the site of the disease as a guide.

3. Deficiency of heart yang

[Symptoms] Chest tightness or heart pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, spontaneous sweating, worse with movement, fatigue and fear of cold, pale face, cold or swollen limbs, pale and fat tongue, white and greasy tongue coating, and deep, thin and slow pulse.

【Treatment method】Replenish Yang Qi and warm and invigorate heart Yang.

[Prescription] Shenfu decoction combined with Guizhi Gancao decoction. The ginseng and aconite in the formula greatly replenish vital energy and warm and nourish the true yang; the cinnamon twig and licorice warm the yang and transform qi, invigorate the heart yang. The two formulas work together to replenish yang energy and warm and invigorate the heart yang. If yang deficiency and cold stagnate in the heart meridians and the heart pain is severe, add deer antler slices, Sichuan pepper, Evodia rutaecarpa, Piper longum, Alpinia officinarum, Asarum, Chuanwu, and red ochre as appropriate. If the patient has yang deficiency, cold stagnation and concurrent qi stagnation and blood stasis, you can choose warm-natured qi-regulating and blood-activating medicines such as Allium macrostemon, agarwood, dalbergia odorifera, sandalwood, charred yanhusuo, frankincense, and myrrh.