Arterial hypertension, characterized by high blood pressure, is widespread 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 serious heart, kidney, and central nervous system disorders. According to the accepted classification, one can speak of hypertension when the pressure reaches 140/90 mmHg.
For the treatment of the disease, effective drugs are produced today, which are used for arterial hypertension of the II. and III. degrees are necessary. However, you can do without medication at an early stage by 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 required. For example, medicinal plants have many contraindications. Most often, treatment with folk remedies becomes an addition to the traditional ones.
Folk ways to reduce pressure
Proven methods have been used to combat high blood pressure for years: relaxing massages, soothing baths, aromatic substances, herbal decoctions and tinctures, various medicines made from well-known vegetables, fruits, berries and other natural products. Hypertension requires weight correction, exercise, a low-salt, low-cholesterol diet, and breaking bad habits.
To cure high blood pressure, plants are used that calm nerves, lower blood pressure, have a diuretic effect and improve heart muscle function. Cures are carried out periodically. They can last from a week to two months, after which a break is required. As a rule, after the course, blood pressure normalizes, sleep becomes longer and stronger, headaches stop, and overall health improves.
All folk treatment methods are simple and affordable. Tinctures and decoctions are made from various combinations of medicinal plants using their leaves, roots, stems, flowers or fruits. To treat this insidious disease, traditional medicine recommends the use of hawthorn, viburnum, lingonberries, cranberries, valerian root, motherwort, aronia, licorice root, peppermint, celandine, black currant, beets, lemon, onions, honey, garlic, walnuts, sunflower seeds , JapaneseSophora, horse chestnut, marigold flowers, plantain leaves and much 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 and mix everything. Store the mixture in the refrigerator with a tight lid. Take this remedy 1 hour before meals 3 times a day for two months.
- Cranberry juice perfectly removes excess fluid from the body and lowers blood pressure.
- With constant high pressure, traditional healers advise drinking juice from fresh beets in the morning on an empty stomach.
- Recipes with lemon are often used for high blood pressure. In a meat grinder, after removing the seeds, scroll two lemons. Mix with powdered sugar (200 g), leave in a dark place for 7 days, shaking occasionally. Consume during the day after a week, but do not eat anything that day.
- Grate lemon with zest, add chopped fresh rose hips (half a tablespoon), cranberries (one tablespoon), a glass of honey, mix. Take a 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. Strain the broth, let it cool and drink a glass throughout the day.
- Rosehip is a well-known remedy for high blood pressure. Prepare a decoction or tincture of rose hips and drink without restrictions.
- To relieve pressure, it is recommended to eat potatoes in their skins, baked in the oven or at the stake.
- Peeled potatoes (5 pieces) pour water (2. 5 cups), boil for a quarter of an hour, then leave to infuse, then strain. Drink a glass a day.
- A proven means of reducing pressure - 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 rosehip decoction during the day. The course lasts 45 days, then take a break for a month.
- An excellent remedy for treating hypertension is honey mixed with vegetable juice. To prepare it, mix a glass of honey with the juice of one lemon, and then add the juice of carrots and beets (one glass each). Grate 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 times a day three hours after meals or one hour before meals.
- 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.
- Drink a glass of mineral water mixed with the juice of half a lemon and a tablespoon of honey on an empty stomach during the weekday.
- Traditional healers are recommended to treat hypertension with mountain ash. Use black chokeberry juice half an hour before meals for two weeks or take a tablespoon of red ashberry 3 or 4 times a day for a month.
- Pour boiling water (200 ml) over two tablespoons of currant berries, simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes. Leave for an hour, strain, drink a quarter cup 4 times a day.
- Recipes with viburnum are often used to make medicines for high blood pressure. Berries (5 tablespoons) mashed. Put honey (200 g) on fire, heat to 40 degrees. Combine the berries with honey and insist for two hours. Take four times a day after meals for a tablespoon.
- Japanese sophora may only be taken together with horse chestnut or sweet clover, as otherwise blood clots can form due to a sharp 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 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 bed.
- Pour dill seeds (a tablespoon) into boiling water (a glass) with increased pressure, leave for a quarter of an hour, strain. Drink a 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 twice a day before meals for two weeks. Then take a break of one to two weeks and repeat the exercise.
- At a pharmacy, buy tinctures of corvalol, motherwort, hawthorn, valerian and peony. Take 100 grams at a time and mix by adding 100 ml of water. Drink a tablespoon at night every day until it's gone.
- With a sharp jump in pressure, you can do the following: dilute vinegar essence with water in a 1: 1 ratio. Dip your socks in this mixture, then put them on and lie down.
Diet for high blood pressure
Speaking of lowering blood pressure, you can't help but think about your diet. Folk remedies for hypertension should be combined with a diet. At high pressure, the diet should contain more grains, vegetables and fruits. Animal fat should be replaced with vegetable fat. Such a diet lowers blood cholesterol, thereby reducing pressure.
With hypertension, beef, butter, mayonnaise and sour cream should be abandoned. In addition to fruit and vegetables, kefir and fish are recommended.
As you know, excess fluid in the vessels leads to an increase in pressure. To remove 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 better to add spices to cooked dishes.
It is important to include potassium-rich foods in your diet, which reduce the harmful effects of sodium. The main sources of potassium are bananas, black currants, oranges, tangerines, potatoes, plums, dried apricots, raisins, cottage cheese, milk, oatmeal.
It is known that hypertension is associated with obesity, so treatment should begin with weight loss. Losing just a few pounds can lower blood pressure.
Therefore, alternative treatment combined with diet and healthy habits will help control the disease and stabilize the pressure.