Object: White-collar workers under the age of 30 get fat because of more entertainment, greasy diet, heavy work pressure, etc., resulting in excess calories in the body, easy to have bitter taste, bad breath, easy hunger, emotional irritability, yellowish urine and constipation. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, besides reducing fat and diuresis, the key is to clear heat.
Use medicinal materials:
Cassia seed, slightly cold, can lower blood pressure, reduce blood lipid and relieve constipation. If you have high blood pressure and constipation, you should choose cassia seed tea. But if the constitution is cold, people who are prone to diarrhea and stomachache are not suitable.
Green tea, which is cool, can reduce fat and digestion. Green tea not only has the function of losing weight, but also has the function of anti-cancer. But green tea is not fermented tea. Chinese medicine believes that it is easier to scrape the stomach, and people with bad stomach should pay more attention.
Spleen-strengthening type
Object: Some people are fat, just because of qi deficiency and need to strengthen the spleen. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that qi deficiency will make the spleen function abnormally, replenish qi, metabolize it normally, and naturally lose weight.
Use medicinal materials:
Coix seed, flat in nature and diuresis, is usually eaten with other herbs or foods because of its mild nature and slow effect.
Astragalus, sweet in taste, slightly warm in nature, can tonify the middle energizer, invigorate qi, promote diuresis and relieve swelling. There is no lipid-lowering effect in itself, but in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, qi deficiency needs qi to enhance the efficiency of body metabolism, and Astragalus can also enhance immune function.
Poria cocos, sweet and flat. Tonifying spleen and diuresis can lower blood sugar, calm down, invigorate qi and enhance immune function.
Regulating qi type
Object: To smooth the movement of Qi, so that its smooth system is in the liver, and "stagnation of the liver will insult the spleen", which naturally leads to obesity, and most of them are young women. The common symptoms are chest tightness, abdominal distension, emotional ups and downs, and serious menstrual disorders.
Use medicinal materials:
Dried tangerine peel can help digestion, eliminate phlegm and regulate qi. It is not effective to lose weight alone.
Roses, which can also regulate qi, have little side effects and must be matched with other slimming herbs.
Nourishing yin type
Object: The elderly are prone to obesity, and the key point of TCM nursed back to health is nourishing yin. The elderly love dizziness, poor sleep quality, backache, dry mouth, etc. Chinese medicine believes that it is insufficient yin and blood, and such patients should promote blood circulation in addition to enriching blood.
Use medicinal materials:
Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, which can reduce blood lipid and replenish blood, has a good effect on obesity in the elderly.
Salvia Miltiorrhiza has the function of slightly enriching blood and promoting blood circulation. It has the effect of lowering cholesterol and blood lipid. It is also effective for coronary heart disease and angina pectoris, and can also improve circulation.
Ten recognized Chinese herbal medicines for reducing blood lipid
The medicinal part is the root or whole herb of Bupleurum chinense, which is bitter in taste and slightly cold in nature and enters the liver and kidney meridians. It mainly contains saikosone, phytosterol, fatty acid and saikosaponin. It has the effects of dispersing qi, relieving depression and dispersing fire. Saikosaponin has hypolipidemic effect.
Chinese rhubarb
Medicinal dry rhizome, bitter and cold in nature, belongs to spleen, stomach, large intestine, liver and pericardium. Has the functions of purging heat, relaxing bowels, resolving food stagnation, removing blood stasis and clearing damp-heat. Rhubarb mainly contains two components: one is anthraquinone derivative, about 2% ~ 4%, including emodin, chrysophanol, rhein, aloe-emodin and so on. Second, rhubarb tannins, mainly glucogallotannin. In addition, it also contains free gallic acid. Rhubarb combined with Fructus Aurantii Immaturus and Atractylodis Macrocephalae can help digestion and stagnation. Anthraquinone derivatives are easy to be absorbed in the body. After oral administration, the blood concentration reaches a peak in 2-3 hours, then slowly decreases, and finally is excreted by bile and feces. At the same time, rhubarb can cause intestinal contraction, increase secretion and produce diarrhea. Rhubarb has the effects of lowering blood pressure and cholesterol.
oriental water plantain
The medicinal part is dried tuber, which is sweet, salty and cold in nature and enters the kidney and bladder meridians. The main component is volatile oil, which contains furfural. Its ethanol extract contains alkaloids, phytosterols and asparagine, and its water and benzene extracts have anti-fatty liver components.
Polygonum cuspidatum
Medicinal roots, mild in nature, have the functions of promoting blood circulation, dredging meridians and promoting diuresis, and are traditionally used to treat rheumatism, arthralgia, jaundice, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea. According to modern pharmacological research, Polygonum cuspidatum contains anthraquinone compounds and flavonoids, and resveratrol glycosides with lipid-lowering components can be extracted from its rhizome. Relevant experiments have proved that Polygonum cuspidatum can reduce cholesterol and triglyceride.
turmeric
For medicinal purposes, its rhizome is bitter and pungent, warm in nature, and it enters the liver and spleen meridians. The main components contain volatile oil, such as Rhizoma Polygonati, dehydrogenated Rhizoma Polygonati, and gingene. Turmeric can promote the circulation of qi in blood, so that qi can circulate without stagnation of blood, and it has the effect of dredging menstruation and relieving pain. Turmeric can increase bile formation and secretion, and increase cholic acid and cholesterol excreted in feces. Although the effect of turmeric on promoting bile secretion is weak, it is lasting. Turmeric can also increase the dissolving activity of fibrin, which has the function of anti-thrombosis. Note: According to pharmacological research, turmeric can excite uterus and make uterus contract. Pregnant women should use it with caution.
cassia seed
Medicinal use of its dried and mature seeds. Cassia seed is bitter and slightly cold in nature, and belongs to liver, gallbladder and kidney, which has the effects of clearing away heat, improving eyesight and moistening intestines. Cassia seed contains anthracene glycosides, which are decomposed to produce emodin, emodin methyl ether, rhein, chrysophanol and glucose, as well as vitamin A. Experiments show that cassia seed has the functions of lowering blood pressure, reducing blood lipid and resisting bacteria, and it has certain curative effect in treating hyperlipidemia. Note: People with diarrhea and hypotension should use Cassia seed preparation with caution.
glossy ganoderma
Medicinal use of its fruiting body, warm, sweet and light taste. Ganoderma lucidum contains sterols, alkaloids, protein, polysaccharides, amino acids and enzymes. It has the effects of benefiting vital energy and strengthening bones and muscles. Indications: mental fatigue, palpitation and insomnia's disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, cerebrovascular sclerosis, etc.
hawthorn
Its dried and mature fruit is used medicinally. It tastes sour and sweet, and its nature is slightly warm. Hawthorn fruit contains many components such as kaempferol, malic acid, citric acid, caffeic acid, lipoid, fat, hyperoside, lipolytic enzyme, tannin, protein, quercetin, riboflavin, carotene, sugar and vitamins. Pharmacological research found that the serum cholesterol of rabbits decreased significantly after taking hawthorn preparation for 3 weeks. Crataegus pinnatifida can be combined with Flos Chrysanthemi, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Rhizoma Corydalis, Flos Lonicerae, Flos Carthami, and Fructus Hordei Germinatus to treat chest distress and dull pain caused by hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and coronary heart disease.
tuber of multiflower knotweed
Medicinal dry root tuber. Bitter, sweet, astringent, warm in nature, liver and kidney meridians entered. Polygonum multiflorum Thunb is rich in lecithin (4% ~ 4.2%), starch, etc., which is helpful for fat transfer. Polygonum Multiflori Radix contains anthracene ester derivatives, mainly chrysophanol and rhein, followed by rhein and physcion, which can enhance intestinal peristalsis and inhibit cholesterol absorption. Polygonum multiflorum Thunb can also prevent cholesterol from depositing in the liver, staying in the serum or infiltrating into the intima of arteries, so as to slow down the formation of atherosclerosis. The decrease of blood lipid may be related to the combination of effective components of Polygonum Multiflori Radix with cholesterol. Polygonum Multiflori Radix combined with Ginkgo biloba leaves and Uncaria rhynchophylla can eliminate or improve symptoms in the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Note: Polygonum multiflorum Thunb has side effects of diarrhea in some patients. In addition, the extract of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb may contain adrenocortical hormone analogues.
ginseng
Medicinal dry root is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly warm, and enters spleen and lung meridians. Ginseng contains a variety of medicinal elements. Ginsenoside in ginseng can inhibit the occurrence of hypercholesterolemia in animals, and when hypercholesterolemia occurs, it can reduce cholesterol. Note: Ginseng is an important medicine for tonifying deficiency syndrome, so it should be used with caution. It should not be used if the systolic blood pressure exceeds 24 kPa. If it is not used in case of fever, it can be supplemented with cooling and moistening drugs such as Ophiopogon japonicus and Asparagus. Small doses can excite the central nervous system, while large doses can paralyze it. This product is not used together with Veratrum.