How to treat carotid artery sclerosis in traditional Chinese medicine

The general view of TCM in treating diseases is to adjust from the inside out and solve the problem fundamentally, and TCM treatment does not put much pressure on the patient's body. The direction of traditional Chinese medicine in treating carotid artery sclerosis is to use diet therapy, using food to regulate the patient's physical condition and alleviate the disease.

(1) Garlic porridge: 100 grams of polished rice, 30 grams of purple garlic. After peeling the garlic, put it in boiling water and cook for 1 minute, then take it out. Put the rice into the garlic water and cook it into porridge, then add the garlic and cook it into porridge. Consume every evening. This prescription has the effect of warming the yang, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is used for those with yang deficiency, cold stagnation, and blood stasis blocking the collaterals. It should be used with caution for those with blood stasis and heat blockage.

(2) Hawthorn and pear paste: 10 kg each of fat hawthorn and sweet pear. Remove the cores, pound them together to extract the juice, boil them in a pot, and add 120 grams of refined honey to make a paste. Take it at will. This prescription is used to treat occlusive arteriosclerosis of various syndromes.

(3) Red bean porridge: Soak an appropriate amount of red beans for half a day, then cook them into porridge with 100 grams of glutinous rice. Once a day.

(4) Radish porridge: 250 grams of fresh radish, 100 grams of glutinous rice. Chop the radish and cook it with rice into porridge. Once a day.

(5) Wuqi Soup: 30g each of Polygonum multiflorum, Lycium barbarum and Zeqi. Decoction in water to 300 ml, twice a day, 1 dose per day. This prescription has the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney, and is used for those with both kidney yin and yang deficiency or kidney yin deficiency.

(6) Ginseng and Tremella Soup: 5 grams of ginseng and 10-15 grams of Tremella. First soak the Tremella in warm water for 12 hours and then wash it. Cut the ginseng into small pieces, simmer over low heat for 2 hours, then add the white fungus and simmer for 1 hour. Take twice a day, morning and evening. This prescription has the effect of replenishing qi and blood, and is used for those with both qi and blood deficiency.

(7) Peach kernel porridge: 10 grams of peach kernel, 50-100 grams of polished rice. Boil the peach kernels, peel the tips, take out the juice and cook it into porridge with rice. Take once daily. This prescription has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is used for those with blood stasis blocking the collaterals.