There are a lot of people in the life that are troubled by high blood lipid. In our traditional Chinese medicine, which can help us to remove bold lipid? Introduce some Chinese herbal medicines for your reference.
Rheum officinale
The medicinal part is dry rhizome, which taste bitter with cold property. It enters spleen, stomach, intestine, liver and pericardium meridians. It has effects on purging heat, relaxing bowel, clear indigestion, remove blood stasis and clear damp-heat.
Rheum officinale mainly contains two components: one is the derivative, about 2% ~ 4%, including emodin, rhubarb, parietic acid, aloe emodin, etc. and another is glycosides mainly is glucogallin. In addition, it also contains gallic acid.
Rheum officinale with fructus aurantii immaturus and atractylodes can promote digestion and remove food retention. Rheum officinale can cause intestinal contraction, promote secretion and purgation. Rheum officinale has the effect of lowering blood pressure and reducing cholesterol.
Cassia seed
The medical part is dry and mature seed. Cassia seed is slightly cold with bitter taste. It enters liver, gallbladder and kidney meridians. It has effects on clearing heat, improving eyesight and relaxing bowel. Experiments show that, cassia seed has the effects of lowering blood pressure, reducing blood lipid and prevent bacteria. For the treatment of hyperlipidemia, it has certain curative effect.
Note: people with diarrhea and hypotension are forbidden to take.
Radix Bupleuri
Medicinal part is root or the whole grass, which is slightly cold with bitter taste. It enters liver and kidney meridians. It can expel the vital energy, dispel melancholy and clear fire. Saponin of radix bupleuri has effects on reducing blood lipid.
Ganoderma
Medicinal part is fruiting body, which is warm in property with sweet and light taste. Ganoderma is rich in sterols, alkaloids, protein, polysaccharide, amino acids, enzymes etc. Boost essence and strong bones and muscles. It is used for mental fatigue, palpitations, insomnia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and cerebral vascular sclerosis.
Rhizoma alismatis
The medicinal part is the dry tuber. It is cold in nature with sweet and salty taste. It enters kidney and bladder meridians. Mainly contains essential oil with furfural. The ethanol extract contains alkaloids, phytosterin, and asparagine. The water extract and benzene extractives contains anti fatty liver.