Heart disease is a general term for a group of symptoms affecting the Heart. It can be related to:

• Disease of the Heart Vessel
• Disease of the Heart Muscle
• Structural Changes in the Heart
• Blood clotting

These changes typically are associated with age, but may also be hereditary.
Symptoms may include:

• Chest tightness or Oppression
• Breathlessness
• Fatigue after slight exertion
• Palpitations, beating in the chest

Coronary Heart Disease refers specifically to disease in the major Heart Blood Vessels.

In Traditional Medicine, Heart Disease can be classified into various main types:
1. Heat/Bile: red face, gets hot easily, feels hot in the chest, feels better at rest
2. Phlegm: pale face, wet tongue, heavy feeling in the chest, feels better with exercise
3. Wind/Qi Stagnation: chest oppression, worse when stressed, maybe palpitations with anxiety
4. Blood Stagnation: purple tongue, lips and nail beds, sharp or stabbing pain
5. Yang Deficiency: severe cold, pale face, cold extremities, joint pain, diarrhea

Chronic cases are usually complex and fit one of several typical patterns:
1. Qi and Blood Stagnation
2. Phlegm/Damp Obstruction with Qi/Blood Stagnation
3. Qi/Yang Deficiency with Qi and Blood Stagnation

Treatment principle is generally to move Qi and Blood, relax the vessels, remove any excess and strengthen any deficiency.

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Primary Cardioactive Herbs of Traditional Medicine

A number of other herbs have Cardioactive activity: Aconites (various), Figwort, Water Lily, Asclepias tuberosa, Calotropis procera, Euonymus atropupurpurens, Nerium odorum, Veratrum viride
Toad Venom (Chan Su) has potent cardioactive activity and is used in some patent pills for Heart disease in China but is largely prohibited elsewhere.

Other Important Herbs in the treatment of Heart Disease

Important Eastern Herbs

Herbs effective against Atherosclerosis

Sample Combinations for Heart Disease

1. Hawthorn, Mistletoe, Garlic
2. Hawthorn berry with Rosemary, Rosehip, Motherwort, Calendula
2. Lily of the Valley, Hawthorn
3. Lily of the Valley, Hawthorn, Motherwort
4. Lily of the Valley with Bugle, Motherwort, Hawthorn berry
6. Hawthorn berry with Mistletoe, Dandelion, Motherwort, Fumitory, Couch grass, Balm, Rue, Yarrow, Shepherd’s Purse (Treben)

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Foxglove
Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen, Berg & Schmidt, Leipzig, 1893

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Special Formula:

1. HUO LUO XIAO LIN DAN
    Dang Gui
    Salvia Dan Shen
    Myrrh (Mo Yao)
    Frankincense (Ru Xiang) equal parts
Blood stasis, dark tongue, heart disease with angina.

2. GUAN XIN SU HE PILLS
    Storax (Su He Xiang)
    White Sandalwood (Tan Xiang)
    Costus (Mu Xiang)
    Borneo Camphor (Bing Pian)
    Olibanum (Ru Xiang)
Qi and Blood stasis, Chest oppression, breathlessness

3. DAN SHEN PIAN
    Salvia Dan Shen  450mg
    Panax notoginseng San Qi  141mg
    Ginseng (Ren Shen) 50mg
    Borneo Camphor (Bing Pian) 8mg
(Amounts per capsule)

4. BAO XIN DAN
    Artificial Musk (Ren Gong She Xiang)
    Ginseng (Ren Shen )
    Cinnamon (Rou Gui)
    Toad venom (Chan Su)
    Storax (Su He Xiang)
    Artificial Bezoar (Ren Gong Niu Huang)
    Borneo Camphor (Bing Pian)
This is prepared as a patent medicine.

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See also:

Move the Blood
Heart weakness
Heart Pain, Angina
Palpitations & Arrhythmias

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Research

1. An Analysis of Chemical Ingredients Network of Chinese Herbal Formulae for the Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease
2. Characteristics of Chinese herbal medicine usage in ischemic heart disease patients among type 2 diabetes and their protection against hydrogen peroxide-mediated apoptosis in H9C2 cardiomyoblasts
3. The traditional Chinese medicines treat chronic heart failure and their main bioactive constituents and mechanisms
4. Digitalization of prevention and treatment and the combination of western and Chinese medicine in management of acute heart failure