Arterial hypertension, characterized by high blood pressure, is very common in our time and is one of the causes of atherosclerosis. It leads to many life-threatening complications, including hypertensive crisis, acute heart failure, myocardial infarction, acute kidney failure, stroke, and other serious diseases of the heart, kidneys, and central nervous system. According to the accepted classification, we can speak of hypertension when the pressure reaches 140/90 mmHg.
To treat the disease, effective drugs are produced today that are needed for arterial hypertension of II and III degrees. However, at an early stage, you can do without drugs by adjusting your lifestyle and using folk recipes.
It should be remembered that non-traditional methods may not be so harmless, which is why the advice of a doctor is necessary. For example, medicinal plants have many contraindications. Most often, treatment with folk remedies is added to traditional treatment.
Popular ways to reduce pressure
To combat hypertension, methods that have been proven over the years are used: relaxing massage, soothing, aromatic baths, herbal decoctions and tinctures, various drugs prepared from familiar vegetables, fruits, berries and herbs. other natural products. With high pressure, weight correction, exercise, a diet low in salt and cholesterol, and the rejection of bad habits are necessary.
To cure hypertension, plants are used that calm the nerves, lower blood pressure, have a diuretic effect and improve the functioning of the heart muscle. Treatment courses are carried out periodically. They can last from a week to two months, after which a break is necessary. As a rule, after the course, blood pressure normalizes, sleep becomes longer and stronger, headaches stop, and the general state of health improves.
All traditional methods of treatment 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, lingonberries, cranberries, valerian root, motherwort, chokeberry, licorice root, peppermint, celandine, blackcurrant, beets, lemon, onions, honey, garlic, walnuts, sunflower seeds, Japanese Sophora, horse chestnut, calendula flowers, plantain leaves and much more.
Folk recipes
- To prepare a medicine 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 the refrigerator with an airtight lid. Take this remedy 1 hour before meals three times a day for two months.
- Lingonberry juice perfectly removes excess fluid from the body and lowers blood pressure.
- With constant high pressure, folk healers advise drinking juice from fresh beets on an empty stomach in the morning.
- Lemon recipes are often used for hypertension. Scroll two lemons through 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 with the zest, add chopped fresh rose hips (half a tablespoon), cranberries (one tablespoon), a glass of honey, mix. Take one tablespoon in the morning and before bed.
- Sunflower seeds (unpeeled) should be thoroughly washed, poured with water (one and a half liters), put on the stove and boiled over low heat for about two hours. Filter the broth, let cool and drink a glass during the day.
- Rosehip is a well-known remedy for hypertension. Prepare a decoction or tincture of rose hips and drink without restriction.
- To reduce the pressure, it is recommended to eat potatoes with their skins, baked or at the stake.
- Peeled potatoes (5 pieces) pour water (2. 5 cups), cook for a quarter of an hour, then leave to infuse, then strain. Drink one glass a day.
- A proven way to reduce pressure - nuts, 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 fire, stirring, bring to a boil. Drink a glass on an empty stomach, take a rosehip decoction during the day. The course lasts 45 days, then take a month break.
- An excellent remedy for treating hypertension is honey mixed with vegetable juice. To prepare it, mix a glass of honey and the juice of a lemon, then add the juice of carrots and beets (one glass each). Grate the 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 glass). 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.
- Traditional healers are advised to treat hypertension with mountain ash. For two weeks, use black aronia juice half an hour before meals, or take a tablespoon of red aronia 3 or 4 times a day for a month.
- Pour boiling water (200 ml) over two tablespoons of blackcurrant berries, simmer for about 10 minutes over low heat. Infuse for an hour, strain, drink 4 times a day for a quarter cup.
- Viburnum recipes are often used to prepare medicines for high blood pressure. Berries (5 tablespoons) crushed. Put honey (200 g) on the fire, heat up to 40 degrees. Combine the berries with honey and insist for two hours. Consume after meals four times a day for one tablespoon.
- Japanese sophora can only be taken with horse chestnut or sweet clover, otherwise blood clots may form due to a sharp increase in blood clotting. To prepare a remedy for hypertension, you will need 10 grams of sophora flowers, grass of forest chistetsa and meadow geranium, 5 grams of sweet clover. 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 a third time before bedtime.
- With increased pressure, dill seeds (one tablespoon) pour boiling water (one glass), leave for a quarter of an hour, strain. Drink three times a day for a third of a glass.
- 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 one to two week break and start again.
- In a pharmacy, buy tinctures of Corvalol, motherwort, hawthorn, valerian and peony. Take 100 grams of each, mix by adding 100 ml of water. Drink a tablespoon in the evening every day until exhausted.
- With a sharp jump in pressure, you can do the following: dilute vinegar essence with water in a 1: 1 ratio. Soak your socks in this mixture, then put them on and lie down.
Diet for hypertension
When talking about lowering blood pressure, one can't help but think of nutrition. Folk remedies for hypertension should be combined with diet. With high pressure, food should include more cereals, vegetables and fruits. Animal fats should be replaced with vegetable fats. Such a diet will reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood, and therefore reduce the pressure.
With hypertension, beef, butter, mayonnaise, 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 increased pressure. To eliminate water, you must reduce or eliminate salt intake. Products should be consumed only fresh: they contain much less salt than canned and semi-finished products. It is best to add spices to cooked foods.
It is important to include foods containing potassium in the diet, which reduces the harmful effects of sodium. The main sources of potassium are bananas, black currants, oranges, tangerines, potatoes, prunes, dried apricots, raisins, cottage cheese, milk and oatmeal.
Hypertension is known to be associated with excess body weight, so treatment should begin with weight loss. Losing a few pounds can lower your blood pressure.
Thus, alternative treatment, together with a healthy diet and habits, will help control the disease and stabilize the pressure.