🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Hyperlipidemia falls within the categories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) conditions such as phlegm syndrome, dizziness, palpitations, and chest obstruction. Clinical features include dizziness, chest tightness, elevated plasma lipids (triglycerides and cholesterol) when fasting (some cases show no symptoms).
This condition results from external factors like long-term consumption of rich, greasy, and fatty foods, and internal factors such as aging weakness or congenital insufficiency leading to imbalance in kidney yin and yang. The pathogenesis involves liver and kidney deficiency with internal phlegm and blood stasis.
If lipid levels are too high, it can lead to “thick blood” depositing on vessel walls, gradually forming small plaques (commonly known as atherosclerosis). As these plaques accumulate and grow, they progressively block vessels, slowing blood flow. Severe blockage may completely interrupt blood supply. If this occurs in the heart, it causes coronary heart disease; in the brain, it leads to stroke; in the eye’s blood vessels, it causes vision decline or blindness; in the kidneys, it results in renal artery sclerosis and renal failure; in the lower limbs, it may cause necrosis and ulcers. Moreover, hyperlipidemia can trigger hypertension, induce gallstones and pancreatitis, worsen hepatitis, cause male sexual dysfunction, and contribute to senile dementia.
In addition to lipid-lowering medications, pharmacological diets can also help reduce lipid levels.
1. Mixed Mushroom Stir-Fry
Benefits: Lower lipids and blood pressure, anti-cancer.
Ingredients: 25 grams each of winter mushroom, common mushroom, and enoki mushroom, 50 grams of tender corn shoots, sufficient fresh broth, a little starch slurry, and seasonings.
Preparation: Soak winter mushroom, common mushroom, and enoki mushroom in clean water, wash, then stir-fry briefly in oil. Add fresh broth and corn shoots, simmer until cooked. Then add starch slurry and seasonings (salt, monosodium glutamate, etc.), stir briefly and serve.
Usage: Serve as a meal accompaniment.
2. Black-and-White Ear Tofu Stir-Fry
Benefits: Nourish qi and blood, lower lipids and blood pressure.
Ingredients: 15 grams of black fungus, 300–500 grams of high-quality fresh tofu, 15 grams of white fungus, sufficient fresh meat broth, a little tofu paste, a pinch of ground pepper, chopped scallions, cooking oil, salt, and monosodium glutamate.
Preparation: 1. Soak black and white fungi in clean water, wash, remove impurities, and lightly sauté in oil. Wash and chop scallions. 2. Wash tofu, cut into 2 cm cubes, fry in oil with tofu paste. Then add black fungus, white fungus, fresh broth, scallions, pepper, salt, and monosodium glutamate, cook thoroughly.
Usage: Serve as a meal accompaniment.
3. Sanqi and Polygonum Mucronatum Porridge
Benefits: Strengthen the heart, lower lipids and blood pressure.
Ingredients: 5 grams of Sanqi, 30–60 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, 100 grams of rice, 2 jujubes, and appropriate sugar.
Preparation: 1. Wash Sanqi and Polygonum multiflorum, place in a clay pot, boil down to extract concentrated juice. 2. Place rice, jujubes, and sugar in the clay pot, add sufficient water, first cook into thin porridge, then add the medicinal juice, gently stir, simmer over low heat until boiling, let it thicken, cover and steam for 5 minutes.
Usage: Consume warm at breakfast and dinner. Avoid using iron pots.
4. Hawthorn and Lotus Leaf Tea
Benefits: Reduce fat, lower blood pressure.
Ingredients: 15 grams of hawthorn, 12 grams of lotus leaf, 10 grams of alisma.
Preparation: Chop all three ingredients finely, boil with water or pour boiling water over them, extract concentrated juice.
Usage: Take one dose daily as tea. Raw hawthorn or cooked in porridge is acceptable.