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Bill (The Philippines) on 10/26/2018: 
But if I had heart problems I would want to be sure that I have covered all the bases. So here is what I would additionally take for any form of heart disease to both heal and protect my heart:
Arjuna (Terminalia arjuna): Take 250mgs to 500mgs per day with meals. This revered Indian herb has been taken for millenia for heart problems. It's main action is to help decongest and drain the body's lymph system. It also does much more for the heart. It's action also greatly strengthens the heart.
Chanca piedra (Phyllanthus niruri): Take the tea form or supplement the capsule form at 500mgs to 700mgs twice a day with meals.This is another commonly used Indian herb (called bhumyamalaki in Hindi) that is also revered in both Unani and Ayurvedic medicine. This herb's benefits for the heart are wide and numerous: lowers blood pressure naturally, safely reduces excess calcium in the blood, reduces blood sugar, lowers cholesterol, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, used for kidney and liver support and it does so much more besides. This is one of my favourite herbs for sure. My wife has just harvested a large batch of Chanca piedra today from our garden. We will dry out this herb in the shade and I will start supplementing it again as a simple tea and preventative to help support my heart, kidney, liver and blood. This is a wonderfully protective herb for the heart and body.
Niacin: Supplement 500mgs three times a day with meals. Start dosage is 100 mgs then you should slowly work up to the 500mgs per dose if you can. Beware the niacin flush. In fact the niacin flush is proof of the beneficial action of niacin. The heart can be stressed and overworked due to "thick" or "clumpy" blood. So whenever you take higher dose niacin this nutrient acts to safely "unclump" the blood to make it more healthy thus removing the dangerous strain on the heart(which could cause a heart attack). Niacin also tends promote a stronger heart beat while, at the same time, reducing the strain on the heart by promoting the release of NO into the blood which makes the arterial walls more elastic so that blood pressure is safely reduced. It's also notable that all drugs companies that produce statin drugs are now somewhat desperately combining statins with niacin in their formulations due to all the bad press statin drugs have received lately. My simple view is that everyone should avoid statins like the plague and just take the cheaper higher dose niacin instead and you will get more heart benefit without all the dangerous and horrible side-effects from statins.
Selenium: 200mcgs to 400mcgs per day with meals. This herb is specifically used for removing mercury from the body and is also taken to increase a key anti-oxidant enzyme in the body called glutathione peroxidase. Recent notable research has discovered quite an interesting fact about the behavior of mercury in the human body. Mercury has been found to combine with human host cell wall components to create something called hapten markers. Put simply, the immune system's antibodies do not attack host cells because all host cells contain a special code that tells the antibodies not to attack it. But when mercury forms hapten markers on the host cell protein then the special code is radically altered so that when the host antibodies interrogate the host cell code -- it is mis-identified as the enemy and so the anti-bodies attack and destroy that host cell. This is a typical auto-immune reaction. So if you supplement selenium to get rid of the mercury from your body(which also acts to remove all the hapten markers on host cells) then this should also help to greatly reduce any auto-immune reactions or auto-immune diseases occurring in not only the heart but also in the all the other body tissues and organs as well. I've also been supplementing selenium on a daily basis for 11 years.
If you are just trying to reduce arterial plaque in your body then you could use Dr Linus Pauling's cheap, simple and natural Vitamin C + Lysine therapy. To supplement this protocol properly add 1000 mgs vitamin C powder to a half glass of water. Then add sodium bicarbonate to the mix until all the fizzing stops. This creates the alkaline form of vitamin C -- sodium ascorbate. Finally add 1000 mgs of lysine powder to this mix. Just make sure everything is dissolved and drink it down. Take this protocol 6 to 8 times a day outside mealtimes for best heart-healing effect. This anti-arteriosclerotic and cholesterol-lowering protocol works well -- you can watch and listen to Dr Pauling's own astonishing testimonials concerning his heart protocol here. Notably this Vitamin C + Lysine therapy is exactly the same as Ted from Bangkok's anti-viral protocol and is also used as a major component in his anti-cancer therapy. So there would also be many other benefits from this therapy besides just making the heart strong and healthy again.
