Common weight-loss Chinese herbal medicines and their effects

Traditional Chinese medicine's understanding of obesity has been recorded in ancient medical books, calling obese people "fleshy people" and "fat people". There are the following commonly used weight-loss traditional Chinese medicines (proprietary Chinese medicines) that have been identified and recognized by the medical community at home and abroad in ancient and modern times:

◆ Green tea: Anti-aging, lowering blood lipids, reducing body weight, clearing bad breath, and improving indigestion.

◆ Gynostemma pentaphyllum: Enhance immunity, delay aging, relieve pain, resist liver damage, lower blood lipids, etc. replenishing qi and nourishing yin, clearing lung and phlegm, nourishing heart and tranquilizing the nerves, etc.

◆ Honeyflower: Relieving fever, anti-inflammation, stimulating central nervous system, lowering blood lipids, etc.; clearing heat and detoxifying, and evacuating wind and heat.

◆ Lotus leaf: Clear heat and relieve summer heat, raise hair and clear yang, cool blood to stop bleeding. It is used for polydipsia due to summer heat, diarrhea due to heat dampness, hematochezia and metrorrhagia, etc.

◆ Hawthorn: Promote digestion, reduce blood pressure, reduce blood lipids, diuretic, improve immunity, etc. Digester digestion and strengthen the stomach, promote qi and dissipate blood stasis.

◆ Cassia seed: Lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, resist liver damage, promote gastric juice secretion, etc. Clear heat and improve eyesight, and relax the intestines and laxative. (Editor in charge: Chen Rongde)