What are the treatments for blood clots?

Speaking of a disease like thrombosis, I believe everyone has encountered thrombosis in their daily lives. That is, the blood vessels in the brain coagulate into small pieces, affecting the normal flow of fluid. At this time, we usually call it cerebral thrombosis. Cerebral thrombosis can cause a long-term lack of blood supply to the brain, causing fainting or even shock. In addition, the patient often shows symptoms of memory loss, dizziness and headache due to insufficient blood supply to the brain. Therefore, we need to have a careful understanding of the treatment methods for thrombosis.

TCM treatment evidence

Traditional Chinese medicine has the idea of ​​"preventing disease before it occurs". If thrombosis can be prevented early or its recurrence can be prevented after it occurs, it will be more meaningful than allowing it to develop into a serious disease. Traditional Chinese medicine has a lot to offer in this regard.

According to the Western Han Dynasty silk book "Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases", thrombosis is mostly classified as "blood stasis" syndrome. Therefore, in clinical practice, drugs that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis are often used to prevent and treat thrombosis.

There are many Chinese medicines for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which can generally be divided into four categories: blood circulation and blood stasis removing medicines, blood nourishing and blood circulation promoting medicines, blood circulation and hemostasis promoting medicines and blood breaking and blood stasis removing medicines. Its representative medicines are: safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza, angelica, Panax notoginseng, and leech. Some of these blood-activating medicines, such as leeches, are quite potent and generally should not be used casually. If you are not a professional, it is difficult to understand their indications. Modern pharmacological research has also confirmed that hirudin is currently the strongest antiplatelet aggregation drug, and there is no antagonistic drug.

The prevention and treatment of thrombosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine is not that simple. What is more important is the emphasis on syndrome differentiation, which is now more popularly known as individualized treatment or medication. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, blood stasis is both a cause of disease and a product of pathology. Blood stasis is caused by specific reasons, and blood stasis will produce some new pathological changes. During treatment, it is necessary to combine other drugs at different times and periods according to the specific situation.

Thrombosis prevention for the elderly

Elderly people analysis

There are two substances in a healthy human body: one is coagulation substances, such as adenosine diphosphate and thrombin A2, fibrin and calcium, which can make platelets clump into agglomerates, form blood clots and play a role in hemostasis. The other is anticoagulant substances, such as fibrinolytic enzyme and prostacyclin, which have the effect of anticoagulation and preventing thrombosis. Normally, the coagulants and anticoagulants in the human blood are in a dynamic equilibrium state, so blood clots are not easily formed. When an accident occurs in a blood vessel, they have a hemostatic effect and maintain human health.