Arterial hypertension, which is characterized by high blood pressure, is very common today and is one of the causes of atherosclerosis. It has many life-threatening complications, including hypertensive crisis, acute heart failure, myocardial infarction, acute renal failure, stroke and other serious diseases of the heart, kidneys and central nervous system. According to the accepted classification, hypertension can be considered when the pressure reaches 140/90 mmHg.
Today, effective drugs for the treatment of grade II and III arterial hypertension are produced to treat the disease. However, you can adjust your lifestyle at an early stage and do without drugs by using folk recipes.
We must not forget that non-traditional methods may not be so harmless, so a doctor's advice is required. For example, herbs have many contraindications. Often, folk remedies are added to traditional treatments.
Folk methods to reduce stress
Over the years, proven methods have been used to combat hypertension: soothing massages, soothing baths, aromatics, herbal decoctions and tinctures, various medicines made from familiar vegetables, fruits, berries and other natural products. It is necessary to lose weight with high blood pressure, exercise, give up a diet low in salt and cholesterol and bad habits.
Herbs that calm the nerves, lower blood pressure, have a diuretic effect and improve the function of the heart muscle are used to treat hypertension. Treatment courses are conducted periodically. They can last from a week to two months, after which you need a break. As a rule, after the course, blood pressure normalizes, sleep is longer and stronger, headaches stop and general health improves.
All folk remedies are simple and affordable. Tinctures and decoctions are made using various combinations of medicinal plants, leaves, roots, stems, flowers or fruits. For the treatment of this insidious disease, traditional medicine suggests the use of hawthorn, viburnum, lingonberries, cornel, valerian root, anawort, aronia, licorice root, mint, celandine, currant, beet, lemon, onion, honey, garlic, walnuts, sunflower seeds. , Japanese Sophora, horse chestnut, calendula flowers, plantain leaves and more.
Folk recipes
- To prepare a drug 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. Keep the mixture in the refrigerator with a tight lid. Take this remedy three times a day for two months, 1 hour before meals.
- Cowberry juice perfectly removes excess fluid from the body and lowers blood pressure.
- With persistent high blood pressure, traditional healers recommend drinking fresh beet juice on an empty stomach in the morning.
- Lemon recipes are often used for hypertension. After removing the seeds, slide two lemons in a meat grinder. Mix with powdered sugar (200 g), insist 7 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. After a week, consume during the day, but do not eat anything else that day.
- Grate the lemon zest, add chopped fresh hips (half a tablespoon), cornel (a tablespoon), a glass of honey, mix. Take a tablespoon in the morning and before bedtime.
- Sunflower seeds (unpeeled) should be thoroughly washed, poured with water (one and a half liters), put in the oven and boiled on low heat for about two hours. Strain the broth, cool and drink a glass during the day.
- Rose hips are a popular remedy for hypertension. Prepare a decoction or tincture of hips and for unlimited.
- To reduce the pressure, it is recommended to eat potatoes baked in the shell, in the oven or on a pole.
- Peeled potatoes (5 pieces) pour water (2, 5 cups), cook for a quarter of an hour, then infuse, then strain. Drink a glass a day.
- You can add 100 grams of walnuts, honey, which you need to eat daily for two weeks - a proven means to reduce blood pressure.
- Mix two glasses of cornel water and 100 grams of sugar, put on fire, stir and bring to a boil. Drink a glass on an empty stomach, take rose broth during the day. The course lasts 45 days, then take a break for a month.
- An excellent remedy for the treatment of hypertension is honey mixed with vegetable juice. To prepare it, combine a glass of honey and the juice of one lemon, then add the carrot and beet juice (one glass each). Grate horseradish and put in water, leave for 1, 5 days, then strain and pour in the honey-vegetable mixture. Store the drug in the refrigerator. Take one tablespoon three times a day, three hours after meals or one hour before meals.
- Chop the plantain leaves and pour the vodka (4 tablespoons per cup). Insist in the dark for 14 days. Strain, for 30 drops three times a day.
- For a glass of mineral water mixed with the juice of half a lemon and a tablespoon of honey on an empty stomach during the week.
- Traditional healers recommend treating hypertension with mountain ash. Use black chokeberry juice half an hour before meals for two weeks, or take a tablespoon of red berries 3 or 4 times a day for a month.
- Pour boiling water (200 ml) over two tablespoons of black currant berries and cook on low heat for about 10 minutes. Infuse for an hour, strain, drink 4 times a day for a quarter cup.
- Prescriptions with viburnum are often used to prepare medications for high blood pressure. Berry puree (5 tablespoons). Put honey (200 g) on the fire, heat to 40 degrees. Combine berries with honey and insist two hours. Consume for a 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 for the treatment of hypertension need 10 grams of sophora flowers, forest chistetsa grass and meadow geranium, 5 grams of sweet clover. Chop the ingredients and mix. Pour a teaspoon of the mixture into 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 increasing pressure, pour fennel seeds (a tablespoon) in boiling water (a 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 glass twice a day before meals for two weeks. Then take a break for a week or two and repeat.
- Get tinctures of Corvalol, motherwort, hawthorn, valerian and peony at the pharmacy. Take 100 grams of each, add 100 ml of water and mix. For one tablespoon each day until the end of the night.
- With a sharp jump in pressure, you can do the following: Dilute the vinegar essence 1: 1 with water. Dip your socks into this mixture, then put on your clothes and lie down.
Diet for hypertension
When it comes to lowering blood pressure, it is important to think about nutrition. Folk remedies for hypertension should be combined with a diet. High grains should include more grains, vegetables and fruits in the diet. Animal fat should be replaced with vegetable oil. Such a diet will lower blood cholesterol levels and therefore lower blood pressure.
Beef, fat, mayonnaise, sour cream should be left with hypertension. In addition to fruits and vegetables, kefir and fish are recommended.
As you know, excess fluid in the arteries causes an increase in pressure. To remove the water, you need to reduce or eliminate salt intake. Products should be eaten only fresh: they contain less salt than canned and semi-finished products. It is better to add spices to cooked food.
It is important to include foods in the diet that contain potassium, which reduces the harmful effects of sodium. The main sources of potassium include bananas, black currants, oranges, tangerines, potatoes, dried apricots, prunes, raisins, cottage cheese, milk, oatmeal.
It is known that hypertension is associated with excess body weight, so treatment should begin with weight loss. Losing a few pounds can lower your blood pressure.
Thus, along with diet and healthy habits, alternative treatments will help manage the disease and stabilize blood pressure.