More and more modern people are suffering from hypertension, which is closely related to their lifestyle. People nowadays face significant work and life pressures, including work stress, irregular eating habits, smoking and drinking, and lack of sleep. In addition, frequent fatigue and sub-health conditions, as well as an increasing number of obese patients, are common causes of elevated blood pressure.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the etiology of hypertension is related to wind, fire, phlegm, and deficiency. The etiology of hypertension is related to emotional depression, liver depression and excessive fire, liver yang hyperactivity, excessive work desire, excessive kidney consumption and damage, as well as the fat, sweetness, and strong taste of the diet, leading to phlegm dampness and internal stagnation. Therefore, the treatment of hypertension in traditional Chinese medicine is based on syndrome differentiation and treatment, targeting symptoms such as liver yang hyperactivity, phlegm dampness accumulation, clear orifices, yin deficiency and excessive heat. San Cao Jiang Ya Cha is an experienced tea formula developed by renowned traditional Chinese medicine practitioner Professor Liu Duzhou for hypertension of the liver yang hyperactivity type. The entire formula contains only a few ingredients, but the formula is simple and powerful, which can promote blood circulation and diuresis, as well as clear the liver and reduce fire. It addresses the pathogenesis of hypertension with qi and blood imbalance, balancing deficiency and excess, regulating both qi and blood, and achieving the goal of lowering blood pressure.
【 Composition of Tea Recipe 】
30g motherwort, 15g summer dry grass, 10g gentian grass, 20g white peony, 10g roasted licorice
Boil water according to the above ratio and drink it as tea
Analysis of Tea Recipe
Summer withered grass, which wilts and withers every summer solstice, is bitter and pungent. It is good at clearing liver fire and has a cold and cool nature. It promotes liver qi and opens up stagnation, disperses stagnation, and lowers blood pressure. It is a commonly used medicine for hypertension.
Gentiana scabra has a bitter taste similar to bile, with a cold and refreshing nature. It can relieve liver fire and is good at removing dampness and heat from the liver meridian. For example, the famous Gentiana scabra Decoction uses Gentiana scabra as its main herb. Motherwort, also known as Kuncao, has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, promoting blood circulation, and diuresis.
Yimucao is a holy herb for the separation of Jueyin and blood. It is good at walking, can promote blood circulation, lower blood pressure, remove blood stasis, and lower blood pressure. The Compendium of Materia Medica states that it treats symptoms such as "blood dizziness, blood wind, and blood pain".
Peony and licorice are combined to make sour and sweet, and sour plum soup in summer also has a sour and sweet taste, so it can supplement the deficiency of liver and kidney yin blood. The combination of various medicines not only treats qi, but also blood and pulse. And the combination of peony and licorice, sour and sweet, nourishes liver yin, and soothes liver yang. If the liver yin is nourished, water can absorb wood, and wood fire will not ignite.
【 Health benefits 】
From a modern medical perspective, San Cao Jiang Ya Tang, Xia Cao Cao, Long Dan Cao, and Shao Yao all have a blood pressure lowering effect. Yi Mu Cao and Shao Yao can also dilate peripheral blood vessels and improve blood circulation.
The commonly used Western medicine treatment for hypertension, such as hydrochlorothiazide tablets, lowers blood pressure through diuresis, and motherwort also has this effect. The good therapeutic effect of this formula may stem from the clever combination of syndrome differentiation and modern pharmacology. When treating hypertension, it is important not to forget to balance deficiency and excess, and to use both attacking and supplementing methods. San Cao Jiang Ya Tang uses motherwort to promote blood circulation, while also using white peony to nourish blood; Using summer dry grass and gentian grass to clear liver fire and reduce reverse qi, while also using roasted licorice to nourish the middle and nourish qi, to prevent cold and cool products from damaging the spleen and stomach qi. Using motherwort to promote diuresis and gentian grass to clear dampness and heat, while using white peony to nourish yin, to achieve diuresis without damaging yin fluid, nourishing yin without succumbing to evil.