DANSHEN Radix Salviae Miltorrhizae

Indication

• Promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis: For cardiodynia, hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain, stomachache, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, lochiorrhea and trauma with blood stasis, used together with Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Olibanum. Recently also used for ischemic apoplexy, disseminated intravascular coagulation, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, etc.
• Clear away heat, relieve vexation, nourish blood and tranquilize the mind: For seasonal febrile diseases involving yingfen and xuefen manifested as high fever, irritability, delirium and skin eruptions, usually used together with Cornu Rhinoceri, Radix Scrophulariae and Rhizoma Coptidis; for insanity attributive to blood stasis and heat, used together with Lumbricus; also for restlessness, frightening and insomnia due to heart-heat or insufficiency of heart-blood.
• Cool the blood to relieve carbuncle: For carbuncles and pharyngitis.

Pharmacological Action

Its component tanshinone acts as a broad-spectrum bactericide, and also can dilate coronary artery and increase coronary flow.
Action on various blood clotting factors, increasing the level of camp in thrombocytes, inhibiting the aggregation of platelets, improving the rheological state of blood so as to