Professor Guo Weiqin’s clinical prescriptions for treating heart diseases is mainly centered on the methods of invigorating qi and activating blood circulation

with distinctive features in the use of blood-activating and stasis-removing medicines. Danshen root (Radix et Rhizoma Salviae Miltiorrhizae)&safflower(Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng Rubra)

and turmeric root tuber(Radix Curcumae)& wenyujin rhizome(Rhizoma Wenyujin Concisum) are frequently used medicinals in Guo Weiqin’s prescriptions. In the above coupled medicinals

cold and heat medicinals are used simultaneously

which makes her medications even and balanced. The special three-medicine combinations are Euonymi twig(Ramulus Euonymi)

turmeric root tuber(Radix Curcumae) and bitter orange(Fructus Aurantii)

curcumae rhizome (Rhizoma Curcumae)

kelp (Thallus Laminariae) and thunberg fritillary bulb (Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii). The combination of the former three medicinals agrees with the theory of qi and blood homology

which is suitable for patients with coronary heart diseases and angina pectoris. The latter treats severe atherosclerotic plaques. Professor Guo Weiqin is also good at using other blood-activating medicinals

such as Sichuan lovage rhizome(Rhizoma Chuanxiong)

bugleweed(Herba Lycopi)and so on.