Tibetan medicine and research status in the treatment of hyperlipidemia
Hyperlipidemia can cause many diseases and increasingly threaten human health.Therefore,it is urgent to research and develop effective,safe and reliable lipid-lowering drugs.Tibetan medicine is an important component of traditional Chinese medicine.Deeply exploring and studying the valuable experience of the people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in preventing and treating diseases and the medicinal biological resources that grow in unique conditions is an indispensable part of the inheritance,innovation,and development of traditional Chinese medicine.After more than 2 000 years of sedimentation and accumulation,Tibetan medicine has discovered or invented many Tibetan medicinal materials or Tibetan compound preparations that have the potential to prevent and treat hyperlipidemia.This article took Tibetan medicine for preventing and treating hyperlipidemia as the starting point,This article briefly reviewed the pathogenesis of hyperlipidemia and the understanding of Tibetan medicine,focusing on the application and research status of single Tibetan medicine and Tibetan compound medicine with pharmacological effects on preventing and treating hyperlipidemia,in order to provide theoretical basis for in-depth research and development of Tibetan medicine for treating hyperlipidemia.