There are red foods that including iron can supply iron to improve anemia, such as red dates, red phoenix, Semen Phaseoli, etc.
Yet, China reported the Radix Notoginseng also can increase the red blood cells. Is its mechanism to separate the stacked red blood cells to increase the useful red blood cells?
To see who can help me to answer my question. Thanks very much.
Best Regards,
Frieda
Dear Frieda
It is understandable that food items that are rich in iron will help patients with iron deficiency anaemia. But I don't think Radix Notoginseng works that way. As you know, there are several causes for anaemia. Some are due to abnormalities in the bone marrow microenvironment or changes in the cytokines and growth factors that are involved in the production of red cells. I suspect the above compound may work subtly on the marrow microenvironment and or the cytokine profile of the marrow stromal cells. It would be interesting to investigate the mode of action of this compound. Good luck.
Siva
Dear Muttuswamy Sivakumaran ,
Yes. There are different types of anemia.
In TCM:
If the spleen yang deficiency that can not absorb the iron, cannot make red blood cells.
If the liver function deviated, in TCM, it invades the spleen function and cannot well make blood. We treat the liver and make the liver function normally to solve the problem. In western medicine, it causes red blood cells to stick together that reduced useful red blood cells to carry oxygen. When blood circulated to the kidney, it releases EPO. When EPO enters the spine, the spine makes blood. It leads the polycythemia. I had a polycythemia patient with body extremely hot and spleen mild enlargement. In TCM, we can solve it soon. However, for years, his MD without a solution. Then, his MD uses chemotherapy. The patient got cancer eventually.
If the kidney yang is deficient, it cannot supply enough yang Qi to the spleen. Then, the spleen function deviated and cannot make enough blood. We let both of the kidney and spleen yang to be normal to solve the problem.
The above are the most cases. However, if the lungs is weak, it also affects the blood making.
Lucky is that we follow ancient TCM can treat diseases effectively. Unlucky is that we do not use modern equipment. So, if using different foods or herbs, we cannot trace the blood changes under the microscope. It's why I asked the question.
Best Regards,
Frieda
Our human bodies are super complex systems. The proper functioning of any cell or organ is the synergy of a lot of co-existing causal conditions, and the effects of these casual conditions to the proper functioning of the cell and organ are in such a non-linear way that the experiment results are not reproducible. It is impossible to really quantitatively set up the cause-effect relationship for any of the single casual condition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Dear Ligen Yu
I feel sorry that I spend a long time to reply to your comment. But, when I did a copy and paste a spelling checked paragraph, the browser was closed. I might come back to reply to you later. No matter how I am too tired to answer why for western medicine-related dark sides.
Or, you can find it by yourself.
Best Regards,
Frieda