Use of Sanqi Powder in Cardiovascular Diseases
With the popularization of health knowledge, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy has gained increasing popularity. “Sanqi powder” is one of the favored health products in recent years. Influenced by modern medicine’s proposition that long-term use of low-dose aspirin can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, many people equate the TCM blood-activating medicine “Sanqi” with aspirin, believing that it has the same preventive effects against cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases as aspirin but without its adverse drug reactions. However, “Sanqi” is a medicine, not food, and the notion of long-term use for prevention without symptoms may lead to drug toxicity. Long-term dual use of medicine and food can cause illness Some say that Sanqi can be used as both medicine and food, which is incorrect. Sanqi is not food but a traditional Chinese medicinal material that promotes blood circulation, stops bleeding, and reduces swelling and pain. It should only be use...