What diseases can hedgehog heart cure?

The hedgehog is an animal with a strange shape because there is a layer of hard thorns distributed on its body. This layer of thorns is the hedgehog's own protection mechanism. In modern society, more and more people are raising hedgehogs as pets. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, hedgehogs are a very good Chinese medicinal material, because both the hedgehog skin and the hedgehog heart have very high medicinal value. So what diseases can be treated using hedgehog heart?

The skin of the hedgehog is called Yixiang and Xianrenyi, and is an important traditional Chinese medicinal material. It has the effects of lowering qi and relieving pain, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, promoting qi and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It is mainly used to treat nausea and vomiting, hernia abdominal pain, intestinal wind and hemorrhoids. Hedgehog meat is a top-quality delicacy containing high protein. Roasting it can nourish the lower abdomen, regulate the stomach, and enhance appetite. The fat of the hedgehog can cure severe diarrhea, and can be applied to treat baldness, scabies, and tinea, and it has the effect of killing skin parasites. Drinking the hedgehog's brain, heart, liver, gallbladder, and kidney whip soaked in wine can refresh the mind, eliminate fatigue, and strengthen the bones.

Eating hedgehog heart is just a folk remedy, which is what Chinese medicine calls "like cures like". It can be used for conditioning, but it cannot be taken as medicine. One gram of hedgehog heart contains 0.59 μg of norepinephrine, a small amount of epinephrine, trace amounts of 4-(2-aminoethyl)-pyrocatechol, catecholamines, etc. These are just endocrine substances that affect the heart. The human body also has them, and there are also medicines with corresponding ingredients.

However, there are many types of heart disease, and different heart diseases require different treatments, so naturally the results will also be different. Heart disease still needs to be treated in a regular large hospital.

The treatment of coronary heart disease is generally drug treatment in the early stage (vasodilation, anticoagulation, etc.), and the possibility of surgical treatment is not ruled out in the later stage. Coronary heart disease can be treated in designated hospitals. Do not trust folk remedies lightly, so as not to delay the disease.

Treatment of coronary heart disease includes: changes in lifestyle habits: quitting smoking and limiting alcohol consumption, low-fat and low-salt diet, appropriate physical exercise, and weight control. Drug treatment: anti-thrombotic (antiplatelet, anticoagulant), reducing myocardial oxygen consumption (β-blockers), relieving angina pectoris (nitrates), lipid-regulating and stabilizing plaques (statins). Revascularization therapy: including interventional therapy (endovascular balloon angioplasty and stent implantation) and surgical coronary artery bypass grafting.