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CN116920039B
CN116920039B CN202210337079.1A CN202210337079A CN116920039B CN 116920039 B CN116920039 B CN 116920039B CN 202210337079 A CN202210337079 A CN 202210337079A CN 116920039 B CN116920039 B CN 116920039B
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Abstract

The invention belongs to the field of traditional Chinese medicines, and in particular relates to a composition for treating hyperlipidemia and a preparation method thereof. The raw materials of the composition comprise the following components: rhizoma anemarrhenae, cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, poria, radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, herba Lycopi, trichosanthis radix, radix Codonopsis, herba Artemisiae Scopariae and semen Phaseoli. The preparation method comprises soaking cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, and Poria in vinegar, adding herba Artemisiae Scopariae and radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, extracting with water, and filtering to obtain residue 1 and filtrate 1; mixing the residue 1 with rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, part of radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, extracting with water, and filtering to obtain filtrate 2; and finally, mixing the filtrate 1 and the filtrate 2, concentrating, adding the rest codonopsis pilosula powder, mixing, adding the probiotic powder for fermentation, and drying to obtain the Chinese medicinal preparation. The composition has outstanding efficacy in lipid lowering, avoids the risks of adverse reactions such as rhabdomyolysis and the like caused by taking chemical medicines, has good compliance of patients, and is suitable for long-term taking.

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Traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating hyperlipidemia and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine preparations and preparation, and in particular relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating hyperlipidemia and a preparation method thereof.
Background
Hyperlipidemia refers to the condition that fat metabolism or operation is abnormal so that the blood fat content in human blood exceeds a normal range, the condition is that cholesterol and/or triglyceride in blood are too high or high density lipoprotein is too low, and the hyperlipidemia is called as 'dyslipidemia', is a disease of abnormally increased blood fat level caused by in vivo fat metabolism or operation abnormality, is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and is an important way for preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Most lipid-lowering western medicines mainly comprise statin drugs and fibrate drugs, and have therapeutic effects, but adverse reactions such as liver and kidney damage, rhabdomyolysis and the like generally exist, so that the compliance of patients is greatly reduced.
The traditional Chinese medicine has certain advantages in treating hyperlipidemia, and has the advantages of regulating blood lipid change on the whole through multiple components and multiple targets, and having small toxic and side effects compared with western medicines.
For example, the Chinese patent application CN201410101019.5 discloses a Chinese medicinal preparation for reducing blood fat and promoting blood circulation, which comprises the following raw material medicaments in part by weight: 50-200 parts of lotus leaf, 30-150 parts of red silk thread, 20-200 parts of ginkgo leaf, 10-60 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 10-60 parts of red sage root, 10-60 parts of pseudo-ginseng, 10-50 parts of semen cassiae, 10-30 parts of radix puerariae, 30-180 parts of fructus crataegi, 10-50 parts of gynostemma pentaphylla and 10-100 parts of rhizoma smilacis glabrae. The invention has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dredging meridian passage, and can be used for treating hyperlipidemia, blood viscosity reduction, blood vessel softening, blood lipid regulation, head distention, dizziness, obesity, uric acid high and other symptoms caused by hyperlipidemia. Has small toxic and side effects, can quickly and stably reduce blood fat and promote blood circulation, and solves the problem of difficult medicine taking of patients with hyperlipidemia for life. The invention claims to have excellent hypolipidemic effect, but the drug effect is not shown by a few cases through scientific experimental study, and has no universality.
Another chinese patent application CN200710019016.7 discloses a traditional Chinese medicine for treating hyperlipidemia, which is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 30.0 to 60.0 portions of astragalus root, 6.0 to 20.0 portions of peach kernel, 6.0 to 15.0 portions of safflower, 15.0 to 30.0 portions of fleece-flower root, 10.0 to 30.0 portions of alisma, 10.0 to 30.0 portions of hawthorn, 6.0 to 15.0 portions of pinellia tuber, 6.0 to 15.0 portions of dried orange peel, 10.0 to 30.0 portions of poria cocos, 3.0 to 10.0 portions of liquorice, 6.0 to 20.0 portions of bamboo shavings and 6.0 to 20.0 portions of immature bitter orange. For the combined hyperviscosity, adding Lumbricus 10.0-20.0, and Hirudo 3.0-9.0. For combined fatty liver disease, rhizoma Polygoni Cuspidati 10.0-20.0 and semen Cassiae 10.0-20.0 are added. The invention has obvious curative effect on treating hyperlipoidemia, but the invention contains the pinellia tuber which is a toxic medicinal material and is not suitable for long-term administration of patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases.
Therefore, although the traditional Chinese medicine has a certain effect in lipid-lowering, the traditional Chinese medicine has the problems of insufficient efficacy, insufficient utilization rate of medicinal materials and inapplicability to long-term administration.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the technology, the invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating hyperlipidemia. The traditional Chinese medicine has good lipid-lowering effect, simple medicine taste, high medicine utilization rate and no toxic or side effect.
In order to achieve the purpose of the invention, the technical scheme adopted is as follows:
A composition for treating hyperlipidemia, the raw materials of the composition comprise the following components: rhizoma anemarrhenae, cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, poria, radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, herba Lycopi, trichosanthis radix, radix Codonopsis, herba Artemisiae Scopariae and semen Phaseoli.
Preferably, the raw materials of the composition comprise the following components in parts by weight: 1-10 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 3-8 parts of cortex moutan, 1-10 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 1-5 parts of poria cocos, 1-5 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 1-5 parts of herba lycopi, 1-5 parts of radix trichosanthis, 1-10 parts of radix codonopsis, 1-10 parts of artemisia capillaris and 1-5 parts of red bean.
Preferably, the raw materials of the composition comprise the following components in parts by weight: 1-5 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 3-5 parts of cortex moutan, 3-8 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 2-4 parts of poria cocos, 2-4 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 1-3 parts of herba lycopi, 1-5 parts of radix trichosanthis, 3-8 parts of radix codonopsis, 3-8 parts of artemisia capillaris and 1-5 parts of red bean.
Preferably, the raw materials of the composition comprise the following components in parts by weight: 5 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 4.2 parts of moutan bark, 5 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 2.8 parts of poria cocos, 2.8 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 2 parts of herba lycopi, 1.4 parts of radix trichosanthis, 5 parts of radix codonopsis, 5.6 parts of herba artemisiae scopariae and 1.4 parts of red bean.
The traditional Chinese medicine has the following efficacy:
Rhizoma anemarrhenae is dry rhizome of rhizoma anemarrhenae of Liliaceae. It enters lung, stomach and kidney meridians. Bitter, sweet and cold. Clearing heat and purging fire, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. Can be used for treating exogenous febrile disease, hyperpyrexia, polydipsia, lung heat, dry cough, hectic fever, internal heat, diabetes, constipation, and intestinal dryness.
Cortex moutan is dry root bark of Paeonia suffruticosa of Ranunculaceae. It enters heart, liver and kidney meridians. Bitter and pungent, and slightly cold. Clear heat and cool blood, activate blood and remove stasis. Can be used for treating toxic heat, speckle, hematemesis, epistaxis, night fever, early cooling, sweating, bone steaming, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, carbuncle, skin sore, and traumatic injury.
The Alismatis rhizoma is dry tuber of Alismatis rhizoma of Alismataceae. Enter kidney and bladder meridians. Sweet and cold. Promoting urination, and clearing damp-heat. Can be used for treating difficult urination, edema, distention, diarrhea, oliguria, dizziness due to phlegm and fluid retention, and stranguria due to heat.
Poria is dried sclerotium of Poria cocos (Roxb.) wolf belonging to Polyporaceae. It enters heart, lung, spleen and kidney meridians. Sweet, light and flat. Induce diuresis and excrete dampness, invigorate spleen and calm heart. Can be used for treating edema, oliguria, phlegm retention, palpitation, spleen deficiency, anorexia, loose stool, diarrhea, uneasiness, palpitation, and insomnia.
Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae is dry root of radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae. Enter bladder and lung meridians. Bitter and cold. Induce diuresis to alleviate edema, dispel wind and alleviate pain. Can be used for treating edema, tinea pedis, dysuria, eczema, skin sore, and rheumatalgia.
Herba Lycopi is dry aerial part of sweet potato seedling of Labiatae. Enter liver and spleen meridians. Bitter and pungent, and slightly warm. Promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, and inducing diuresis to alleviate edema. Can be used for treating menoxenia, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, puerperal abdominal pain due to blood stasis, and edema.
Radix Trichosanthis is dry root of Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim or Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim of Cucurbitaceae. Enter lung and stomach meridians. Sweet, slightly bitter and slightly cold. Clearing heat and promoting salivation, detumescence and expelling pus. Can be used for treating pyretic polydipsia, lung heat dryness cough, internal heat diabetes, and pyocutaneous disease.
Radix Codonopsis is dry root of radix Codonopsis Lanceolatae (Codonopsis pilosula Miq. Of Campanulaceae) plant essence flower or radix Codonopsis Lanceolatae. Enter spleen and lung meridians. Sweet and flat. Tonify middle energizer and qi, strengthen spleen and lung. Can be used for treating spleen and lung weakness, short breath, palpitation, anorexia, loose stool, asthma, cough, internal heat, and diabetes.
Herba Artemisiae Scopariae is herba Artemisiae Scopariae with fruit ear collected in autumn. Enters the liver, spleen and bladder meridians. Bitter and pungent, cool. Clear heat and promote diuresis. For jaundice due to damp-heat, difficult urination, wind-itching, sore and scabies.
The semen Phaseoli is dry mature seed of semen Phaseoli or semen Phaseoli of Leguminosae. It enters heart and small intestine meridians. Sweet, sour, flat. Induce diuresis to alleviate edema, detoxify and expel pus. Can be used for treating edema, tinea pedis, edema of limbs, jaundice, dark urine, rheumatic arthralgia, carbuncle, skin sore, and abdominal pain.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method for preparing the above composition, comprising the steps of:
(1) Soaking cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, and Poria in vinegar, filtering, adding herba Artemisiae Scopariae and radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, extracting with water, and filtering to obtain residue 1 and filtrate 1;
(2) Mixing the residue 1 with rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, part of radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, extracting with water, and filtering to obtain filtrate 2;
(3) Mixing filtrate 1 and filtrate 2, concentrating, adding the rest radix Codonopsis powder, mixing, adding probiotics, fermenting, and drying.
Preferably, the temperature of the soaking with vinegar in the step (1) is 40-55 ℃, and the soaking time is 40-60min.
Preferably, 0.05-0.08% polyethylene glycol 600 is added to the water in step (1).
Preferably, in step (2) the portion of codonopsis pilosula is 70-85% codonopsis pilosula.
Preferably, the mass ratio of the concentrated filtrate to the probiotic powder in step (3) is 1:0.5-1.5%.
Preferably, the probiotics in the step (3) comprise lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 in a mass ratio of 1:2-4; the fermentation temperature is 30-36 ℃ and the fermentation time is 24-48h.
The lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 are compounded and subjected to liquid medicine fermentation, so that the lactobacillus plantarum STN26 has good effects of regulating blood lipid metabolism, removing free radicals in bodies and regulating intestinal flora, and the supplier is Jia Yi bioengineering Co., ltd.
It is also an object of the present invention to provide the use of the above composition for the preparation of a product for the treatment of hyperlipidemia.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) The invention adopts scientific proportion, the tarragon is bitter and pungent, is slightly cold, clears heat and promotes diuresis, and eliminates jaundice, and is reused as a monarch. Oriental Waterplantain rhizome has the effects of promoting diuresis, removing dampness, relieving heat, eliminating turbid pathogen and reducing blood lipid; rhizoma anemarrhenae nourishes yin, reduces pathogenic fire, moistens dryness and smoothes intestines, and the two medicines are assistant with monarch drugs to induce diuresis to alleviate edema and relieve the monarch drugs from purging excessive fire to hurt body fluid, and are ministerial drugs. Poria cocos, radix stephaniae tetrandrae induce diuresis and alleviate edema; detoxification and detumescence of red bean; radix trichosanthis helps rhizoma anemarrhenae to promote salivation and clear fire; cortex moutan and herba Lycopi have effects of promoting blood circulation for removing blood stasis, clearing heat, cooling blood, and inducing diuresis for removing edema; the radix codonopsis can tonify qi and blood, enter the organism to promote qi and blood circulation, enable the medicines to directly reach the internal organs, play a role in overall regulation and tonification, and are used as adjuvant medicines together. The medicines together play roles of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness, promoting qi and activating blood circulation, regulating viscera functions of human bodies, and transforming ointment and fat.
(2) The invention achieves good blood lipid reducing effect through the synergistic compatibility of the medicinal herbs, has more remarkable blood lipid regulating effect compared with the positive control medicine, can regulate the organism through multiple components, multiple targets and multiple layers, has no drug resistance, no toxic or side effect and good compliance of patients after long-term administration.
(3) According to the invention, the moutan bark, the poria cocos and the alisma are soaked in the vinegar for more than half an hour before being extracted, so that the extraction of active ingredients is more complete, the heating extraction time is obviously shortened, and the retention of heat-sensitive active ingredients is more beneficial.
(4) The invention uses special probiotic composition to ferment the extracting solution, promotes the generation of new metabolites of the extracting solution and the increase of the concentration of active ingredients, and in addition, the probiotics can be used for regulating intestinal probiotics flora and regulating body fat metabolism in cooperation with dry paste powder, thereby enhancing the lipid-lowering curative effect of the formula of the invention.
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The invention is further described in connection with the following detailed description. The following raw materials are all commercially available conventional materials. The Chinese medicinal materials are derived from Chinese medicinal material market or pharmacy, the supplier of probiotic raw materials is Jiayi bioengineering limited company in Shandong, vinegar is edible rice vinegar, and polyethylene glycol 600 is medicinal conventional adjuvant.
Example 1:
the raw materials of the embodiment are as follows: 5.6 parts of herba artemisiae scopariae, 5 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 4.2 parts of cortex moutan, 5 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 2.8 parts of poria cocos, 2.8 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 2 parts of herba lycopi, 1.4 parts of radix trichosanthis, 5 parts of radix codonopsis and 1.4 parts of red bean.
The preparation method comprises the following steps:
(1) Soaking cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, and Poria in vinegar at 40deg.C for 40min, filtering, mixing with herba Artemisiae Scopariae and radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, adding 5 times of water, adding polyethylene glycol 600 to water concentration of 0.05%, decocting for 1 hr, and filtering to obtain residue 1 and filtrate 1;
(2) Mixing the residue 1 with rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, 85% radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, extracting with 8 times of water relative to the total mass of rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, 85% radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli for 1 hr, and filtering to obtain filtrate 2;
(3) Mixing filtrate 1 and filtrate 2, concentrating, adding the rest radix Codonopsis powder, mixing, adding probiotic powder, fermenting at 35deg.C for 2 days, and drying the fermentation broth under reduced pressure. Wherein the probiotics are compounded by lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 according to the mass ratio of 1:2.
Example 2:
The raw materials of the embodiment are as follows: 3.5 parts of herba artemisiae scopariae, 1 part of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 3 parts of cortex moutan, 3 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 2 parts of poria cocos, 2 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 1.5 parts of herba lycopi, 3.2 parts of radix trichosanthis, 3.8 parts of radix codonopsis, and 2.0 parts of red bean.
The preparation method comprises the following steps:
(1) Soaking cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, and Poria in vinegar at 50deg.C for 60min, removing vinegar, adding herba Artemisiae Scopariae and radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, adding 8 times of water, adding polyethylene glycol 600 to water concentration of 0.08%, decocting for 0.5 hr, and filtering to obtain residue 1 and filtrate 1;
(2) Mixing the residue 1 with rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, 75% radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, extracting with water 5 times of the total mass of rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, 75% radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli for 1 hr, and filtering to obtain filtrate 2;
(3) Mixing filtrate 1 and filtrate 2, concentrating, adding the rest radix Codonopsis powder, mixing, adding probiotic powder, fermenting at 30deg.C for 2 days, and drying the fermentation broth under reduced pressure. Wherein the probiotics are compounded by lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 according to the mass ratio of 1:4.
Example 3:
the raw materials of the embodiment are as follows: 5.6 parts of herba artemisiae scopariae, 3.5 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 5 parts of cortex moutan, 8 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 4 parts of poria cocos, 4 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 3 parts of herba lycopi, 3 parts of radix trichosanthis, 6.8 parts of radix codonopsis and 4.2 parts of red bean.
The preparation method comprises the following steps:
(1) Soaking cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, and Poria in vinegar at 55deg.C for 60min, removing vinegar, adding herba Artemisiae Scopariae and radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, adding 8 times of water, adding polyethylene glycol 600 to water concentration of 0.05%, decocting for 1 hr, and filtering to obtain residue 1 and filtrate 1;
(2) Mixing the residue 1 with rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, 85% radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, extracting with 8 times of water relative to the total mass of rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, 85% radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli for 1 hr, and filtering to obtain filtrate 2;
(3) Mixing filtrate 1 and filtrate 2, concentrating, adding the rest radix Codonopsis powder, mixing, adding probiotic powder, fermenting at 36deg.C for 1 day, and drying the fermentation broth under reduced pressure. Wherein the probiotics are compounded by lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 according to the mass ratio of 1:3.
Comparative example 1
The comparative example differs from example 1 in that the prescription has different medicinal flavors, and the specific composition is as follows: 5.6 parts of virgate wormwood herb, 5 parts of anemarrhena rhizome, 4.2 parts of turmeric root-tuber, 5 parts of oriental waterplantain rhizome, 2.8 parts of Indian buead, 2.8 parts of giant knotweed rhizome, 2 parts of red paeony root, 1.4 parts of mongolian snakegourd root, 5 parts of pilose asiabell root and 1.4 parts of red bean.
The preparation method comprises the following steps:
(1) Soaking radix Curcumae, alismatis rhizoma, and Poria in vinegar at 40deg.C for 40min, filtering, mixing with herba Artemisiae Scopariae and rhizoma Polygoni Cuspidati, adding 5 times of water, adding polyethylene glycol 600 to water concentration of 0.05%, decocting for 1 hr, and filtering to obtain residue 1 and filtrate 1;
(2) Mixing the residue 1 with rhizoma anemarrhenae, radix Paeoniae Rubra, radix Trichosanthis, 85% radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, extracting with 8 times of water relative to the total mass of rhizoma anemarrhenae, radix Paeoniae Rubra, radix Trichosanthis, 85% radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli for 1 hr, and filtering to obtain filtrate 2;
(3) Mixing filtrate 1 and filtrate 2, concentrating, adding the rest radix Codonopsis powder, mixing, adding probiotic powder, fermenting at 35deg.C for 2 days, and drying the fermentation broth under reduced pressure. Wherein the probiotics are compounded by lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 according to the mass ratio of 1:2.
Comparative example 2
The difference between the comparative example and the example 1 is that probiotics are different, and the probiotics are specifically compounded by lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-002 and streptococcus thermophilus JYST-26 in a mass ratio of 1:2.
Comparative example 3
The difference between this comparative example and example 1 is that the preparation method adopts the traditional decocting. The preparation method comprises the following steps:
(1) Adding water 5 times of the total mass of the above materials into cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, poria, herba Artemisiae Scopariae, radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, trichosanthis radix, radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, adding polyethylene glycol 600 to concentration of 0.05%, decocting for 0.5 hr, decocting for 3 times, filtering, and mixing filtrates;
(3) Concentrating the filtrate, adding probiotic powder, fermenting at 35deg.C for 2 days, and drying the fermentation broth under reduced pressure. Wherein the probiotics are compounded by lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 according to the mass ratio of 1:2.
Hypolipidemic pharmacodynamic experiments
90 SD healthy male rats are selected, after the animal house is adaptively fed for one week, 10 normal rats are fed with normal feed, and the rest rats are fed with high-fat feed (the basic feed is 60%, the lard is 10%, the sucrose is 20%, the cholesterol is 5% and the sodium cholate is 5% mixed), and the rats drink water freely. After feeding for 4 weeks, the body weight was weighed to prepare a hyperlipoidemia rat model. The hyperlipidemia rats were then divided into 8 groups according to a random number table, which were model group, positive group, examples 1 to 3 groups, comparative examples 1 to 3 groups, respectively.
Gastric lavage administration:
The compositions prepared in the corresponding groups of the examples 1-3 and the comparative examples 1-3 are added, and the administration dosage is 15g/kg of crude drug, and the compositions are dissolved and dispersed by adding water; the model group and the normal group were respectively given the same dose of physiological saline, and the positive group was perfused with 1.5mg/kg of simvastatin suspension. After 3 weeks of gastric lavage, no water is forbidden for 12 hours, and blood is taken to determine the levels of total triglycerides, total cholesterol, low density lipoproteins and high density lipoproteins in serum. The experimental data were all statistically processed using SPSS13.0 software, the index values were expressed as mean.+ -. Standard deviation, and the comparisons between groups were t-checked. The results are shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1 Effect of the inventive formula on blood lipid metabolism
Note that: * The expression is statistically significant compared with the blank group, P < 0.05; # represents statistically significant, # P < 0.05 compared to the model group; delta represents that, compared with the group of example 1, it is statistically significant that DeltaP < 0.05.
Analysis of results: as can be seen from comparison of the model group and the blank group, after the model rat is fed with high fat 3, the blood fat biochemical index of the model rat is obviously higher than that of the normal group, and the model rat has obvious statistical difference (P is less than 0.05), which indicates that the model building is successful. After the lipid-lowering composition is administered to model animals for 3 weeks, the levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein in the blood of rats are obviously reduced, and the levels of the high-density lipoprotein are greatly increased, which indicates that the composition can effectively regulate the blood lipid metabolism in patients with hyperlipidemia. Compared with the example 1, the comparative example 1 has changed monarch drug, part of adjuvant drug adopts drug taste control with similar efficacy in traditional Chinese medicine, the treatment effect is not good, the comparative example 2 adopts other probiotics for fermentation, the comparative example 3 adopts traditional combined decoction method for extraction, and the lipid-lowering efficacy of the prepared composition is not as strong as the invention. The composition has outstanding efficacy in lipid lowering, can achieve the efficacy equivalent to that of simvastatin medicines, avoids the risks of adverse reactions such as rhabdomyolysis and the like, has good compliance of patients, and is suitable for long-term administration.
The foregoing detailed description is directed to one of the possible embodiments of the present invention, which is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, but is to be accorded the full scope of all such equivalents and modifications so as not to depart from the scope of the invention.

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1. The composition for treating the hyperlipidemia is characterized by comprising the following raw materials in parts by weight: 1-10 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 3-8 parts of cortex moutan, 1-10 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 1-5 parts of poria cocos, 1-5 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 1-5 parts of herba lycopi, 1-5 parts of radix trichosanthis, 1-10 parts of radix codonopsis, 1-10 parts of artemisia capillaris and 1-5 parts of red bean;
The preparation method of the composition comprises the following steps:
(1) Soaking cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, and Poria in vinegar, filtering, adding herba Artemisiae Scopariae and radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, extracting with water, and filtering to obtain residue 1 and filtrate 1;
(2) Mixing the residue 1 with rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, part of radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, extracting with water, and filtering to obtain filtrate 2;
(3) Mixing filtrate 1 and filtrate 2, concentrating, adding the rest radix Codonopsis powder, mixing, adding probiotic powder, fermenting, and drying;
wherein the temperature of the vinegar soaking in the step (1) is 40-55 ℃, and the soaking time is 40-60min; adding 0.05-0.08% of polyethylene glycol 600 into the water;
The part of the dangshen in the step (2) is 70-85 percent of dangshen;
the mass ratio of the concentrated filtrate to the probiotic powder in the step (3) is 1:0.5-1.5%; the probiotic powder is lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 with the mass ratio of 1:2-4; the fermentation temperature is 30-36 ℃ and the fermentation time is 24-48h.
2. The composition according to claim 1, wherein the raw materials of the composition are the following components in parts by weight: 1-5 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 3-5 parts of cortex moutan, 3-8 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 2-4 parts of poria cocos, 2-4 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 1-3 parts of herba lycopi, 1-5 parts of radix trichosanthis, 3-8 parts of radix codonopsis, 3-8 parts of artemisia capillaris and 1-5 parts of red bean.
3. The composition according to claim 1, wherein the raw materials of the composition are the following components in parts by weight: 5 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 4.2 parts of moutan bark, 5 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 2.8 parts of poria cocos, 2.8 parts of radix stephaniae tetrandrae, 2 parts of herba lycopi, 1.4 parts of radix trichosanthis, 5 parts of radix codonopsis, 5.6 parts of herba artemisiae scopariae and 1.4 parts of red bean.
4. A process for the preparation of a composition as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, comprising the steps of:
(1) Soaking cortex moutan, alismatis rhizoma, and Poria in vinegar, filtering, adding herba Artemisiae Scopariae and radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, extracting with water, and filtering to obtain residue 1 and filtrate 1;
(2) Mixing the residue 1 with rhizoma anemarrhenae, herba Lycopi, radix Trichosanthis, part of radix Codonopsis and semen Phaseoli, extracting with water, and filtering to obtain filtrate 2;
(3) Mixing filtrate 1 and filtrate 2, concentrating, adding the rest radix Codonopsis powder, mixing, adding probiotic powder, fermenting, and drying;
wherein the temperature of the vinegar soaking in the step (1) is 40-55 ℃, and the soaking time is 40-60min; adding 0.05-0.08% of polyethylene glycol 600 into the water;
The part of the dangshen in the step (2) is 70-85 percent of dangshen;
the mass ratio of the concentrated filtrate to the probiotic powder in the step (3) is 1:0.5-1.5%; the probiotic powder is lactobacillus plantarum JYLP-326 and streptococcus thermophilus STN26 with the mass ratio of 1:2-4; the fermentation temperature is 30-36 ℃ and the fermentation time is 24-48h.
5. Use of a composition according to any one of claims 1-3 for the preparation of a product for the treatment of hyperlipidemia.
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