高脂血症与许多疾病有重要关系,尤其对老年病学关系更密切。现有降脂药的治疗效果还不够满意,且须长期服用,多数副作用较大。近十年来,我国在探索降血脂中药的研究方面进行了大量的工作,国外也很注意。其探索途径归纳起来主要有四个方面: 一、从抗衰老药物方面探索降脂中药祖国医学认为衰老的根本原因在于肾虚。因此,补肾可以抗衰老,也有可能治疗高脂血症。丁氏用补肾方法治疗30例冠心病,其中伴有高脂血症者,显效率62%,血清胆固醇平均下降48mg%,甘油三脂平均下降79mg%,β脂蛋白平均下降52mg%。祖国医学有很多抗衰老的方剂,长生不老丹,七宝美髯丹、延龄固本丹、杨氏还少丹、首乌延寿丹等是其中典型的方剂。在这些方剂中,大多是一些补肾药,如 Hyperlipidemia has an important relationship with many diseases, especially for geriatrics. The therapeutic effect of the existing lipid-lowering drugs is still not satisfactory, and long-term use is required, and most of the side effects are large. In the past ten years, China has carried out a lot of work in exploring the research on blood-thin-reducing traditional Chinese medicines, and foreign countries are also paying attention. There are four main ways to sum up the exploration approaches: 1. Exploring lipid-lowering medicines from anti-aging drugs The motherland medicine believes that the root cause of aging is kidney deficiency. Therefore, kidney can be anti-aging, it may also treat hyperlipidemia. Ding’s method of treating kidney disease with 30 cases of coronary heart disease, including those with hyperlipidemia, the effective rate of 62%, serum cholesterol, an average decrease of 48mg%, an average of 79mg% of triglycerides, an average decrease of 52mg% of lipoprotein. The motherland medicine has a lot of anti-aging prescriptions. It is a typical prescription for Qibaodanmeidan, Yanling Gubendan, Yangshihaodan, Shouwu Yanshoudan. In these prescriptions, most of them are kidney medicines, such as