High blood pressure, characterized by hypertension, 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 kidney failure, stroke, and other serious heart, kidney, and central nervous system diseases. 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 degree. However, at an early stage, you can do without medicines by adapting 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 massages, relaxing, aromatic baths, herbal decoctions and tinctures, various medicines prepared from familiar vegetables, fruits, berries and other natural products. With high blood pressure, weight correction, exercise, a diet low in salt and cholesterol, and the rejection of bad habits are necessary.
To treat hypertension, plants are used that calm the nerves, lower blood pressure, have a diuretic effect and improve the functioning of the heart muscle. Treatment courses 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 general health improves.
All popular 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, cranberries, lingonberries, valerian root, motherwort, chokeberry, licorice root, peppermint, celandine, black currant, beetroot, lemon, onions, honey, garlic, nuts, sunflower seeds, Japanese Sophora, horse chestnut, marigold 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 zest, mix everything. Store the mixture in the refrigerator with an airtight lid. Take this remedy 1 hour before meals three times a day for two months.
- Cranberry juice perfectly removes excess fluids from the body and lowers blood pressure.
- With constant high pressure, traditional healers recommend drinking fresh beet juice 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 from time to time. After a week, consume during the day, but don't eat anything else that day.
- Grate the lemon with the peel, add chopped fresh rosehips (half a spoon), cranberries (one spoon), a glass of honey, mix. Take a spoon in the morning and before going to 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 a glass during the day.
- Rosehip is a well-known remedy for hypertension. Make a decoction or tincture of rose hips and drink without restrictions.
- To reduce the pressure, it is recommended to eat potatoes in their skins, cooked 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 of reducing pressure - nuts, 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, mix, bring to a boil. Drink a glass on an empty stomach, take a decoction of rose hips during the day. The course lasts 45 days, then take a month break.
- 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 carrot and beet juice (one glass each). Grate the horseradish and put it in the water, leave for 1. 5 days, then strain and pour into the honey and 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 the plantain leaves and pour the vodka (4 tablespoons per glass). Insist in the dark for 14 days. Filter, drink 30 drops three times a day.
- During the week, drink a glass of mineral water mixed with the juice of half a lemon and a tablespoon of honey on an empty stomach.
- 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 ash 3 or 4 times a day for a month.
- Pour boiling water (200 ml) over two tablespoons of black currant 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 hypertension. Mashed berries (5 tablespoons). Put honey (200 g) on the fire, heat up to 40 degrees. Combine the berries with honey and insist for two hours. Consume after meals four times a day for one tablespoon.
- Japanese Sophora can only be taken with horse chestnut or 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, chistetsa forest grass and meadow geranium, 5 grams of sweet clover grass. Grind and mix the 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 bedtime.
- With increased pressure, dill seeds (one tablespoon) pour boiling water (one 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 a week or two and repeat.
- At the pharmacy, buy tinctures of Corvalol, Motherwort, hawthorn, valerian, and peony. Take 100 grams of each, mix by adding 100 ml of water. Drink one tablespoon at night every day until it runs out.
- With a strong pressure jump, you can do the following: dilute the vinegar essence with water in a ratio of 1: 1. Soak the socks in this mixture, then put them on and lie down.
Diet for hypertension
Speaking of lowering blood pressure, you can't 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 thus reduce the 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 the water, you need to reduce or eliminate your 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 the diet, which reduces the harmful effects of sodium. Major sources of potassium include bananas, black currants, oranges, tangerines, potatoes, prunes, dried apricots, raisins, cottage cheese, milk, oatmeal.
Hypertension is known to be associated with excess body weight, so treatment should begin with weight loss. Losing just a few pounds can lower blood pressure.
Therefore, alternative treatment, along with healthy diet and habits, will help control the disease and stabilize blood pressure.