dan shen, Complementary and Alternative Healing University

Pharmaceutical name:

英文藥名：

Radix Salvia miltiorrhizae

Biological name:

拉丁學名：

Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge.

Pron. in Japanese:

日語發音：

tanjin

Pron. in Korean:

韓語發音：

daan1 sam

Pron. in Cantonese:

粤語發音：

tan sam1

chi shen 赤參，zi dan shen 紫丹參，chao dan shen ，bie xue dan shen 鱉血丹參。

Common Name:

英文名：

salvia root

Distribution:

分佈：

Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin

河北，山西，內蒙古，遼寧，吉林。

Properties (characteristics)：

性味：

bitter, slightly cold

味苦微寒。

Channels (meridians) entered:

歸經﹕

heart and liver

入心﹐ 肝二經。

Actions & Indications: 主治 ﹕

rid of clot blood, pain, invigorate blood, breakup blood stasis, for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, palpable tumors, angina, heat bi, restlessness and insomnia, irritability, swollen spleen, pain in digestive system,

功能活瘀血, 止痛﹐ 經痛﹐ 無月經﹐可生新血,涼血,可觸知的腫瘤﹐心䍮痛﹐熱庳﹐煩燥不安﹐ 脾腫﹐ 消化系統疼痛。

Medical Function:

药理：

antithrombotic
antihypertonic (lowering blood pressure)
antimicrobial
antipyretic
anti-inflammatory
hepatoprotective: inhibits fibrinogen and aids in the resorption of fibrous plaques in the liver.
sedative
modulate cancer growth and metastases [20]

藥理：

抗血液凝结
降血壓
抗菌
退焼
抗炎
保肝作用:抗肝纖維化;提高供體肝臟的保存效果;消除肝細胞氧自由基;減輕肝臟冷熱缺血再灌注後的損害;減輕肝細胞脂肪變性和壞死;促進殘肝再生;防治肝癌轉移復發;對肝硬化門靜脈高壓血流動力學有影響.[19]
鎮静
抑制癌腫之增長與擴散 [20]

Chemical ingredients:

化學成份：

1. (1) tanshinone I, cryptotanshinone^[1,2], hydroxytanshinone, methyltanshinonate^[3,4], methylene tanshiquinone^[5], przewatanshinquinone A),przewatanshinquinone B ^[6], miltirone^[7], dihydrotanshinone I ^[8], tanshinol A, tanshinol B, tanshinol C, 3-α-hydroxy tanshinone II^, nortanshinone ^[9], 1, 2, 15, 16-tetrahydrotanshiquinone ^[10].

isotanshinone, isocryptotanshinone ^[3,4], tanshiquinone A, B, C^[11].

(2) saloilenone^[12], danshenspiroketallactone, Tanshilactone^[14].

(3) salviol, tanshialdehyde.

2. danshensuan A, B, C, protocatechuic acid, protocatechuic aldehyde ^{[15, 16, 17]}.

baicalin, β-sitosterol, ursolic acid, daucosterol, isoferulic acid, dihydroisotanshinone I^[18].

Dosage:

用量：

6 to 15 g

6~15克

Samples of formulae:

處方舉例：

tian wang bu xin dan 天王補心丹

Modern Research:

现代研究：

Significantly increase in coronary blood flow due to reduction of vascular resistance.

可增加冠狀動脉流量，因為丹参能减低血管阻力。

Cautions:

禁忌：

Administration of tinctures of this herb can lead to severe itching, stomachache, or reduced appetite.

While taking dan shen do not use milk or soy product because milk or soy product can lower the effective of dan shen. Do not use with blood thinning drugs, like warfarin, heparin etc.

服用丹参酒浸剤可能導致激烈的發癢，肚痛，食慾减退。

用丹参時，不要用奶或豆類制品以免降低療效。不可與抗凝血药物如華法林，肝素同用。