Arterial hypertension, 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 speak of hypertension when the pressure reaches 140/90 mmHg.
To treat the disease, effective drugs are being produced today that are necessary for arterial hypertension of the II and III degrees. However, at an early stage, you can do without medicines by adjusting your lifestyle and using folk recipes.
We must not forget that non-traditional methods may not be so harmless, so the advice of a doctor is required. For example, medicinal plants have many contraindications. Most often, treatment with folk remedies becomes an addition to the traditional one.
Folk ways to reduce pressure
To combat hypertension, methods proven over the years are used: relaxing massage, soothing baths, aromatics, herbal decoctions and tinctures, various medicines prepared from familiar vegetables, fruits, berries and 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. 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, blood pressure normalizes, sleep becomes longer and stronger, headaches stop, and overall health improves.
All folk 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, seedssunflower, 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 a tight lid. Take this remedy 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 a steady 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, consume during the day, but do not eat anything else that day.
- Grate lemon with peel, add chopped fresh rose hips (half a tablespoon), cranberries (a tablespoon), a glass of honey, mix. Take a tablespoon in the morning and before bed.
- Sunflower seeds (unpeeled) should be washed thoroughly, poured with water (one and a half liters), put on the stove, boiled over 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 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), cook for a quarter of an hour, then let it brew, then strain. Drink one glass a day.
- A proven means to reduce 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 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 break for a month.
- An excellent remedy for treating hypertension is honey mixed with vegetable juice. 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 it in water, leave for 1. 5 days, then strain and pour into the honey-vegetable mixture. Keep the medicine in the refrigerator. Take a 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 chokeberry juice half an hour before meals, 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 blackcurrant berries, simmer for about 10 minutes over low heat. Infuse 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. Berries (5 tablespoons) mashed. Put honey (200 g) on fire, heat up to 40 degrees. Combine the berries with honey and insist for two hours. Consume after meals four times a day for a 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 cure for hypertension, you will 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.
- With increased pressure, dill seeds (a 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 take a break for one to two weeks and repeat.
- 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 at night every 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 into this mixture, then put them on and lie down.
Diet for hypertension
Speaking of lowering blood pressure, one cannot help but think about nutrition. Folk remedies for hypertension should be combined with a diet. With high pressure, food should include more cereals, vegetables, fruits. Animal fat should be replaced with vegetable fat. Such a diet will reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood, and therefore, reduce 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 an increase in pressure. To remove water, you need to reduce or eliminate salt intake. Products should be eaten only fresh: they contain much less salt than in canned food 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, black currants, oranges, tangerines, potatoes, prunes, dried apricots, raisins, cottage cheese, milk, oatmeal.
It is known that hypertension is associated with excess body weight, so treatment should begin with weight loss. Losing just a few pounds can lower your blood pressure.
Thus, alternative treatment, coupled with diet and healthy habits, will help control the disease and stabilize pressure.