What medicine is used to reduce inflammation, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis

Anti-inflammation and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis are things that need to be done when treating many diseases. There are many kinds of medicines that can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. In traditional Chinese medicine, leeches, Chuanxiong, Salvia miltiorrhiza, pangolin, Panax notoginseng, safflower and other medicines can achieve good effects in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Of course, different drugs have different effects. Below we will introduce in detail these medicines that can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

1. Leeches

The Chinese medicinal leech, commonly known as leech, its extract hirudin has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dredging meridians and relieving spasms, and softening and shrinking tumors. Modern medical research shows that hirudin is a powerful anticoagulant that can significantly reduce blood viscosity, neutralize prothrombin, combat ADP-induced thrombosis, dilate blood vessels, and relieve arterial spasm. The high anticoagulant effect of hirudin is very beneficial for anticancer drugs to enter tissues and kill tumor cells, so it promotes radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

2. Chuanxiong

“Qingcheng is the most secluded cave in the world and the best cave in western Sichuan. Where cranes pass by, good medicine falls from the sky.”

This is the Chuanxiong mentioned by the King of Medicine Sun Simiao. Its active ingredient, ligustrazine, can improve the hypercoagulable state of blood and the internal environment where malignant tumors exist, play an anti-tumor metastasis role, and is very beneficial for tumor treatment.

3. Salvia miltiorrhiza

Salvia miltiorrhiza is a commonly used medicine in clinical practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Doctors of all dynasties have likened Salvia miltiorrhiza to "one Salvia miltiorrhiza, the power of four herbs". Four herbs refer to "Siwu Decoction" (composed of four herbs: Angelica sinensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Ligusticum chuanxiong and White Peony Root). "Siwu Decoction" has the effect of nourishing blood and activating blood circulation, and one ingredient of Salvia miltiorrhiza is equivalent to the effects of four ingredients, which shows the wonderful use of Salvia miltiorrhiza. Pharmacological studies have confirmed that Danshen can improve the hypercoagulable state of blood by promoting fibrinolysis, inhibiting platelet aggregation, improving microcirculation, reducing blood viscosity, etc., thereby degenerating newly formed capillaries in tumor metastases and improving their immunity.

IV. Other drugs

There are many commonly used Chinese medicines for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which can be said to be a wide range of troops and generals. For example, pangolin, Panax notoginseng, safflower, Curcuma, Corydalis, frankincense, myrrh, Aconiti lobata, Vaccaria segetalis, whole worm, centipede, canthus flytrap, safflower fruit, Lithospermum officinale, and Sanguisorba officinalis. This type of drug, whether used alone or in a combination of prescriptions, has shown excellent effects in treating and preventing tumors. With the development of medicine, Chinese medicines that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis will surely shine brightly in the anti-tumor field and safeguard the lives and health of the people.