Hypertension, characterized by high blood pressure, is very common today and is one of the causes of atherosclerosis. There are many life-threatening complications, including hypertensive crisis, acute heart failure, myocardial infarction, acute renal failure, stroke and other severe diseases of the heart, kidneys and central nervous system. According to the accepted classification, hypertension can be said when the pressure reaches 140/90 mmHg.
Effective drugs needed for grade II and III hypertension are now being produced to treat the disease. However, at an early stage you can do without drugs, adjusting your lifestyle and using folk recipes.
We must not forget that non-traditional methods may not be so harmless, so a doctor's advice is needed. For example, medicinal plants have many contraindications. Most often, folk remedies become a supplement to the traditional.
Folk ways to reduce pressure
To combat hypertension, methods proven over the years are used: relaxing massage, soothing baths, aromas, herbal decoctions and tinctures, various medicines prepared from familiar vegetables, fruits, berries and other natural products. High blood pressure requires weight correction, exercise, a low-salt, low-cholesterol diet, and rejection of bad habits.
Plants that calm the nerves, lower blood pressure, have a diuretic effect and improve the work of the heart muscle are used to treat hypertension. The courses of treatment are carried out periodically. They can last from a week to two months, after which a break is needed. As a rule, after the course the blood pressure normalizes, sleep becomes longer and stronger, the headache stops and overall health improves.
All folk remedies are simple and affordable. Tinctures and decoctions are prepared from various combinations of medicinal plants, using their leaves, roots, stems, flowers or fruits. For the treatment of this insidious disease traditional medicine suggests using hawthorn, viburnum, blueberries, cranberries, valerian root, thyme, chokeberry, licorice root, mint, celandine, black currant, beets, lemon, onion, honey, garlic, walnuts, sunflower seeds, Japanese sophora, horse chestnut, marigold flowers, plantain leaves and much more.
Folk recipes
- To prepare a remedy for hypertension, you need to squeeze a glass of onion juice, add a glass of honey and 50 grams of grated lemon peel, mix everything. Store the mixture in a refrigerator with a tight lid. Take this medicine 1 hour before meals three times a day for two months.
- Cranberry juice perfectly removes excess fluid from the body and lowers blood pressure.
- At constant high pressure folk healers advise to drink fresh beet juice in the morning on an empty stomach.
- Lemon recipes are often used for hypertension. Roll two lemons in a meat grinder after removing the seeds. Mix with powdered sugar (200 g), insist in a dark place for 7 days, shaking occasionally. After a week, consume during the day, but do not eat anything more that day.
- Grate the lemon peel, add chopped fresh rose hips (half a tablespoon), cranberries (tablespoon), a glass of honey, stir. Take one tablespoon in the morning and at bedtime.
- Sunflower seeds (unpeeled) should be washed thoroughly, poured with water (one and a half liters), put on the stove, boil on low heat for about two hours. Strain the broth, cool and drink one glass during the day.
- Rosehip is a well-known remedy for hypertension. Prepare a decoction or tincture of rose hips and drink without restrictions.
- To reduce the pressure, it is recommended to eat potatoes in the skins, baked in the oven or on the stove.
- Peeled potatoes (5 pieces) pour water (2, 5 cups), cook for a quarter of an hour, then simmer, then strain. Drink one glass a day.
- Proven means of reducing blood pressure - walnuts, which you need to eat daily for two weeks, 100 grams, you can add honey.
- Mix two glasses of cranberry juice and 100 grams of sugar, put on the fire, stirring, bring to a boil. Drink a glass on an empty stomach, during the day take a decoction of rose hips. The course lasts 45 days, then take a break for a month.
- An excellent remedy for hypertension is honey mixed with vegetable juice. To prepare it, mix a glass of honey and the juice of one lemon, then add the juice of carrots and beets (one glass). Grate horseradish and put it in water, leave for 1, 5 days, then strain and pour into the honey-vegetable mixture. Store the medicine in the refrigerator. Take one tablespoon three hours after meals or one hour before meals three times a day.
- Grind plantain leaves and pour vodka (4 tablespoons per cup). Insist in the dark for 14 days. Strain, drink 30 drops three times a day.
- During the week, drink on an empty stomach a glass of mineral water mixed with the juice of half a lemon and a tablespoon of honey.
- Folk healers are advised to treat hypertension with mountain ash. For two weeks, use black chokeberry juice half an hour before meals or take one tablespoon of red ash 3 or 4 times a day for a month.
- Pour boiling water (200 ml) two tablespoons of blackcurrant, simmer for about 10 minutes on low heat. Insist for an hour, strain, drink 4 times a day for a quarter cup.
- Recipes with viburnum are often used to prepare medicines for high blood pressure. Fruit puree (5 tablespoons). Put honey (200 g) on the fire, heat to 40 degrees. Combine the fruit with honey and insist for two hours. Consume one tablespoon four times a day after meals.
- Japanese sophora can be taken only with horse chestnut or sweet clover, otherwise blood clots may form due to a sharp increase in blood clotting. To prepare a cure for hypertension, you will need 10 grams of sophora flowers, forest herb and meadow geranium, 5 grams of sweet clover grass. Grind and mix the ingredients. Pour a teaspoon of the mixture with a glass of boiling water and leave for a quarter of an hour. Drink hot, you can with honey. Take twice before meals and the third time before bedtime.
- At high pressure fennel seeds (tablespoon) pour boiling water (glass), leave for a quarter of an hour, strain. Drink one third of a glass three times a day.
- Mix a glass of yogurt and honey, add 2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder. Take half a cup before meals twice a day for two weeks. Then take a break for one to two weeks and repeat.
- At the pharmacy, buy tinctures of corvalol, motherwort, hawthorn, valerian and peony. Take 100 grams of each, stir, adding 100 ml of water. Drink one tablespoon at night each day until it runs out.
- With a sharp jump in pressure you can do the following: dilute the vinegar essence with water in a ratio of 1: 1. Dip your socks in this mixture, then put them on and lie down.
Diet for hypertension
Speaking of lowering blood pressure, one can not help but think about nutrition. Folk remedies for hypertension should be combined with diet. At high pressure, the diet should include more grains, vegetables, fruits. Animal fats should be replaced with vegetable ones. Such a diet will lower blood cholesterol levels and therefore reduce blood pressure.
In case of hypertension, beef, butter, mayonnaise and sour cream should be abandoned. In addition to fruits and vegetables, kefir and fish are recommended.
As you know, excess fluid in the vessels leads to an increase in pressure. To eliminate water, you need to reduce or eliminate salt intake. Products should be consumed only fresh: they contain much less salt than canned and semi-finished products. It is better to add spices to cooked food.
It is important to include in the diet foods containing potassium, which reduces the harmful effects of sodium. The main sources of potassium include bananas, blackcurrants, oranges, tangerines, potatoes, prunes, dried apricots, raisins, cottage cheese, milk, oats.
Hypertension is known to be associated with overweight, so treatment should begin with weight loss. Losing just a few pounds can lower your blood pressure.
In this way, alternative treatments, combined with diet and healthy habits, will help control the disease and stabilize blood pressure.