The "Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases" written on silk books in the Western Han Dynasty mostly belong to the category of "blood stasis" syndrome, so drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis are commonly used in clinic to prevent thrombosis.
There are many drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis in traditional Chinese medicine, which can be generally divided into four categories: drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, drugs for nourishing blood and activating blood, and drugs for promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis. Its representative drugs are: safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza and angelica, notoginseng and leech. Some of these blood-activating drugs are violent, such as leeches, and should not be used casually under normal circumstances. If you are not a professional, it is difficult to master their indications. Modern pharmacological studies have also confirmed that hirudin is the strongest anti-platelet aggregation drug at present, and there is no antagonist.
The prevention and treatment of thrombosis in traditional Chinese medicine is not so simple. What is more important is to pay attention to syndrome differentiation, which is a popular saying now: individualized treatment or medication. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, blood stasis is not only the cause, but also the pathological product, which is caused by specific reasons. Blood stasis will produce some new pathological changes. In the treatment, according to the specific situation, at different times and different periods, with other drugs for treatment.