Arterial hypertension, which is characterized by high blood pressure, is very common in our time 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 severe diseases of the heart, kidneys, and central nervous system. According to the accepted classification, one can talk about hypertension when the pressure reaches 140/90 mmHg.
To treat this disease, effective drugs are being produced today that are needed for grade II and III arterial hypertension. However, in the early stages, you can do it without medications by adjusting your lifestyle and using folk recipes.
We must not forget that non -traditional methods may not be so dangerous, so the advice of a doctor is needed. For example, medicinal plants have many contraindications. Often, treatment with folk remedies becomes in addition to the traditional ones.
People's ways to reduce stress
To combat hypertension, proven methods for many years are used: relaxing massages, soothing baths, aromatics, herbal decoctions and tinctures, various remedies prepared from vegetables, fruits, berries and other natural products. With high stress, weight correction, exercise, a diet low in salt and cholesterol, and rejection of bad habits are necessary.
To cure hypertension, plants are used that calm nerves, lower blood pressure, have a diuretic effect, and improve heart muscle function. The course of treatment is carried out periodically. They can last from a week to two months, after which a break is needed. As a rule, after the course, blood pressure becomes normal, sleep becomes longer and stronger, headaches stop, and overall health improves.
All folk treatment methods 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 dangerous disease, traditional medicine recommends using hawthorn, viburnum, lingonberry, cranberry, valerian root, motherwort, chokeberry, licorice root, mint, celandine, blackcurrant, beets, lemon, onion, honey, garlic, walnuts, sunflower seeds. , Japanese Sophora, horse chestnuts, calendula flowers, banana leaves and 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 the refrigerator with a tight lid. Take this medicine 1 hour before meals three times a day for two months.
- Cowberry juice perfectly removes excess fluid from the body and lowers blood pressure.
- With persistent high pressure, traditional healers advise drinking juice from fresh beets on an empty stomach in the morning.
- Recipes with lemon are often used for hypertension. Scroll 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, eat during the day, but do not eat more that day.
- Grate a lemon with peel, 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 (not peeled) should be thoroughly washed, 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 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 stress, it is recommended to eat potatoes in their skins, baked in the oven or on spikes.
- Peeled potatoes (5 pieces) pour water (2. 5 cups), cook for a quarter of an hour, then let it brew, then strain. Drink one glass a day.
- A proven way to reduce stress - walnuts, which you need to eat every day for two weeks, 100 grams, you can add honey.
- Mix two glasses of cranberry juice and 100 grams of sugar, put on fire, stir, bring to a boil. Drink a glass on an empty stomach, take a decoction of rosehip during the day. The course lasts for 45 days, then rests for a month.
- An excellent remedy for treating hypertension is honey mixed with vegetable juices. To prepare it, combine a glass of honey and the juice of one lemon, then add the juice of carrots and beets (one glass each). Grate the horseradish and put 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 banana leaves and pour vodka (4 tablespoons per glass). Insist in the dark for 14 days. Strain, drink 30 drops three times a day.
- Throughout 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 chokeberry juice half an hour before meals, or take one tablespoon of red ashberry 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. Infusion for an hour, strain, drink 4 times a day for a quarter cup.
- Recipes with viburnum are often used to prepare a remedy for high blood pressure. Berries (5 tablespoons) mashed. Put honey (200 g) on the fire, heat to 40 degrees. Mix berries with honey and insist for two hours. Take 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 as a result of a sudden increase in blood clotting. To prepare a remedy for hypertension, you need 10 grams of sophora flowers, forest chistetsa herb and meadow geranium, 5 grams of sweet clover grass. Grind and mix the ingredients. Pour one teaspoon of the mixture with a glass of boiling water and leave for a quarter of an hour. Drink hot, can with honey. Take twice before meals and a third time before bedtime.
- With increasing pressure, dill seeds (one tablespoon) pour 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 cup before meals twice a day for two weeks. Then rest for one to two weeks and repeat.
- At the pharmacy, buy tincture of Corvalol, motherwort, hawthorn, valerian and peony. Take 100 grams each, mix by adding 100 ml of water. Drink one tablespoon a night every day until exhausted.
- With a sharp jump in pressure, you can do the following: dilute the vinegar essence with water in a 1: 1 ratio. Dip your socks into this mixture, then put on and lie down.
Diet for hypertension
Talking about lowering blood pressure, one cannot help but think about nutrition. Folk remedies for hypertension should be combined with diet. With high pressure, food should contain more grains, vegetables, fruits. Animal fats should be replaced with vegetable fats. Such a diet will reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood, and therefore reduce stress.
With hypertension, beef, butter, mayonnaise, sour cream should be omitted. In addition to fruits and vegetables, kefir and fish are recommended.
As you know, excess fluid in the vessel leads to an increase in pressure. To remove 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 foods.
It is important to include in the diet of foods containing potassium, which reduces the harmful effects of sodium. The main sources of potassium include bananas, black currants, oranges, tangerines, potatoes, prunes, dried apricots, raisins, cottage cheese, milk, oats.
It is known that hypertension is associated with being overweight, so treatment should begin with weight loss. Losing just a few pounds can lower your blood pressure.
Therefore, alternative treatments, coupled with a healthy diet and habits, will help control disease and stabilize stress.