​The efficacy and function of berberine

Berberine is a very bitter traditional Chinese medicine. It is mainly extracted from Coptis chinensis, Tripterygium wilfordii and Phellodendron chinense. However, good medicine tastes bitter. With the development of modern medical research today, many pharmacological effects of berberine have been discovered. Initially, berberine was mainly used to treat diseases such as diarrhea. However, with the cautious use of the drug, medical researchers have also discovered that berberine has other effects. So what are the specific effects and functions of berberine?

1. Berberine has a significant lipid-lowering effect

Clinical observations show that patients with hypercholesterolemia treated with berberine experienced a 20% to 28% decrease in serum total cholesterol, cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein and triglycerides after taking berberine orally for 3 months. At the same time, berberine is dozens of times cheaper than statins. The discovery of berberine's lipid-lowering effect has an inestimable value in the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. It can be said that berberine is an ideal supplement to statins. After a course of treatment of hyperlipidemia with berberine (3 times a day, 0.3 grams each time, for 20 consecutive days), total cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood decreased significantly. It is effective for coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease caused by arteriosclerosis.

2. Berberine also has a good antihypertensive effect

The blood pressure of most elderly patients with hypertension can be reduced to normal range after taking medication. This is because berberine in berberine can directly act on vascular smooth muscle and have a vasodilating effect.

3. Berberine can fight heart failure

When the heart cannot send all the blood returning from the veins into the arteries due to weakened myocardial contractility, blood stasis will occur, cardiac output will decrease, and it will be difficult to meet the needs of tissue metabolism. Berberine hydrochloride can be taken before meals for treatment, 0.4 to 0.6 grams each time, three times a day. It usually takes 1 to 5 days to take effect, and the overall effective rate is 71%. However, emergency and critically ill patients still need to be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

4. Berberine can treat bedsores

The formula of berberine and ciprofloxacin hydrochloride has a good effect in treating bedsores, and the materials are easy to obtain.

The specific usage is: first grind the non-sugar-coated berberine into powder, add ciprofloxacin hydrochloride solution to make it into an ointment, routinely disinfect the skin around the wound, remove necrotic tissue from the wound, rinse the wound with sterile saline and wipe it dry, then apply the formulated medicine (0.1 g berberine plus 0.5 ml ciprofloxacin hydrochloride solution per square centimeter of wound) to the wound, 2 to 3 times a day, and 7 days as a course of treatment.