Arterial hypertension, which is characterized by hypertension, is very common in our time and is one of the causes of atherosclerosis. It has a number of life-threatening complications, including high blood pressure, 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, high blood pressure can be considered when the pressure reaches 140/90 mmHg.
Today, effective drugs for the treatment of grade II and III arterial hypertension are being developed to treat the disease. However, at an early stage, you can do it without medication by changing your lifestyle and using folk recipes.
It should be borne in mind that non-traditional methods may not be as harmless, so you need medical advice. For example, herbs have many contraindications. Most often, treatment with folk remedies becomes a traditional supplement.
Folk methods for reducing pressure
The methods used to fight high blood pressure have been used for years: relaxing massages, soothing baths, aromatic agents, herbal decoctions and tinctures, and medicines made from various known vegetables, fruits, berries and other natural products. High pressure requires weight correction, exercise, a low-salt and low-cholesterol diet, and rejection of bad habits.
Herbs are used to treat high blood pressure, which calm the nerves, lower blood pressure, have a diuretic effect, and improve the function of the heart muscle. Treatment courses are conducted periodically. They can last from one week to two months, after which a break is required. Usually after the course, blood pressure normalizes, sleep becomes longer and stronger, headaches disappear, and general health improves.
All folk treatment methods are simple and affordable. Tinctures and decoctions are made from various combinations of herbs using their leaves, roots, stems, flowers or fruits. For the treatment of this insidious disease, traditional medicine recommends the use of hawthorn, viburnum, cranberry, cranberry, catnip, motherwort, chokeberry, licorice, peppermint, celandine, blackcurrant, beetroot, lemon, onion, honey, garlic, walnuts, sunflower seeds. , Japanese Sophora, horse chestnut, marigold flowers, plantain leaves and more.
Folk recipes
- To make a medicine for high blood pressure, squeeze a glass of onion juice, add a glass of honey and 50 grams of grated lemon zest, 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.
- Cranberry juice perfectly removes excess fluid from the body and lowers blood pressure.
- With constant high pressure, traditional healers advise drinking fresh beet juice in the morning on an empty stomach.
- Lemon recipes are often used for high blood pressure. Roll two lemons in a meat grinder after removing the seeds. Mix with powdered sugar (200 g), stick in a dark place for 7 days, shaking occasionally. After a week, consume it during the day, but don’t eat any more that day.
- Grate the lemon with peel, add chopped fresh rosehips (half a tablespoon), blueberries (one 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, simmer for about two hours. Strain the broth, cool and drink with a glass during the day.
- Rosehip is a well-known cure for high blood pressure. Make a decoction or tincture of rosehips and drink without restriction.
- To reduce the pressure, it is recommended to eat the potatoes baked in a peel, oven or bonfire.
- Peel a squash, grate it and cook for 5 hours. Drink a glass a day.
- The best way to reduce pressure - nuts, which should be eaten for two weeks a day, can add 100 grams of honey.
- Mix two glasses of blueberry juice and 100 grams of sugar, put on fire, stir, bring to a boil. Drink a glass on an empty stomach, drink rosehip decoction during the day. The course lasts 45 days and then takes a break for a month.
- Honey mixed with vegetable juice is an excellent cure for high blood pressure. To make it, mix a glass of honey and a lemon juice, then add the carrot and beet juice (one glass each). The horseradish is grated and placed in water, left to stand for 1. 5 days, then filtered and poured into the honey-vegetable mixture. Keep the medicine in the refrigerator. Take one tablespoon three hours after meals or three hours daily before meals.
- Grind plantain leaves and pour vodka (4 tablespoons per glass). Stick in the dark for 14 days. Strain, drink 30 drops three times a day.
- During the week, on an empty stomach, drink a glass of mineral water mixed with half a lemon juice and a tablespoon of honey.
- Traditional healers are advised to treat high blood pressure with mountain ash. For two weeks, use black chokeberry juice half an hour before a meal, or take a tablespoon of red ash 3-4 times a day for a month.
- Pour boiling water (200 ml) into two tablespoons of blackcurrant berry and simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes. Infuse for one hour, filter, drink a quarter cup 4 times a day.
- Recipes for viburnum are often used to make medications for high blood pressure. Purey berries (5 tablespoons). Put the honey (200 g) on the fire, heat to 40 degrees. Mix the berries with honey and stick for two hours. Eat one tablespoon four times a day after meals.
- Japanese Sophora can only be taken with horse chestnuts or sweet clover, otherwise blood clots may form due to a sharp increase in blood clotting. You will need 10 grams of sophora flowers, forest chistetsa herb and meadow geranium, and 5 grams of sweet clover grass to make a cure for high blood pressure. The ingredients are ground and mixed. Pour a teaspoon of the mixture into a glass of boiling water and leave for a quarter of an hour. It can be too hot with honey. Take it twice before meals and a third time before going to bed.
- Under increased pressure, pour the dill seeds (one tablespoon) with boiling water (a glass), let stand for a quarter of an hour, filter. Drink three-thirds a day three glasses a day.
- Mix a glass of yogurt and honey, add 2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder. Drink half a cup twice a day before meals for two weeks. Then take a break for a week or two and repeat.
- Buy Corvalol, motherwort, hawthorn, valerian and peony tinctures at the pharmacy. Take 100 grams of each and mix by adding 100 ml of water. Drink one tablespoon every night until you run out.
- With a sharp pressure jump, you can dilute the vinegar essence 1: 1 with water. Dip your socks into this mixture, then pick up and lie down.
Diet for high blood pressure
Speaking of lowering blood pressure, you can’t help but think about nutrition. Folk remedies for high blood pressure should be combined with diet. In case of high pressure, the food should contain more cereals, vegetables and fruits. Animal fat should be replaced by vegetable fat. Such a diet lowers the level of cholesterol in the blood and thus lowers the pressure.
In case of high blood pressure, beef, butter, mayonnaise and sour cream should be omitted. In addition to fruits and vegetables, kefir and fish are recommended.
As you know, excess liquid in the vessels leads to an increase in pressure. To remove water, you need to reduce or eliminate salt intake. The products should only be consumed fresh: they contain much less salt than canned and semi-finished products. It is better to add spices to cooked food.
It is important to include foods containing potassium in your diet that reduce the harmful effects of sodium. The main sources of potassium are bananas, black currants, oranges, tangerines, potatoes, prunes, dried apricots, raisins, cottage cheese, milk, oatmeal.
High blood pressure is known to be linked to being overweight, so treatment should be started with weight loss. Losing a few pounds can lower your blood pressure.
Thus, alternative treatment combined with diet and healthy habits will help control the disease and stabilize the pressure.