Monday, December 20, 2010

Herbs to treat hypertension


Along with age, almost everyone experienced an increase in blood pressure. On examination the blood pressure will get two numbers. Higher rates obtained when the heart contracts (systolic), lower figure obtained when the heart relaxes (diastolic). Systolic pressure continued to increase until the age of 80 years and diastolic pressures will continue to rise until age 55-60 years, then decrease slowly or even decreased.

If you have a blood pressure less than 120/80 mmHg, mean that your blood pressure is still normal. But if your blood pressure 140/90 mmHg, then there is the possibility you are suffering from hypertension. Moreover, if the situation lasts in the long term.

High blood pressure or hypertension is a medical condition in which there was an increase in blood pressure are chronic (long term). Patients who have at least the blood pressure exceeds 140/90 mmHg at rest is estimated to have high blood condition. Blood pressure is always high is one risk factor for stroke, heart attack, heart failure and arterial aneurysm, and is a major cause of chronic heart failure.

The following classification of blood pressure in adults according to JNC VII:
Normal: systolic blood pressure <120 mmHg and diastolic bloodpressure <80 mmHg
Prehypertension: systolic blood pressure 120-139 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure 80-89 mmHg
Stage 1: systolic blood pressure 140-159 mmHg and diastolicblood pressure 90-99 mmHg
Stage 2: systolic blood pressure of 160 mmHg or more and diastolicblood pressure of 100 mmHg or more.
But there are also patients who have systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg to more, while the diastolic pressure of less than 90 mmHg. This is called isolated systolic hypertension commonly found in the elderly.

Many herbal ingredients that can be used to treat this disease, including the following:
  1. 15-30 g clerodendron bungei steud leaves boiled in a saucepan with 3 cups water. Boil until the remaining 1 ½ cups. Cooking wateris split to 2 times drinks. Do it every day until cured. Description: lerodendron bungei steud plants can be purchased at drug stores Chinese commonly known by the name of chou mu tan.
  2. 2 cloves garlic chewed until soft, then swallow and drink 1 cup warm water. Do it 3 times a day.
  3. 2 fruit noni washed and then shredded. Squeeze and strain the water to drink. Do 2 or 3 times a day.
  4. Prepare 300 grams of fresh cucumber. Wash clean cucumber, grated, squeezed, and then filtered. Drinking filtered at once. To repeat, create a new potion
  5. ¼ handheld meniran leaves (child pick a bacwashed and then ground smooth. Add ½ cup of boiled water. Squeeze and strain, then drink the water. Do 2 or 3 times a day.
  6. 30 sheets of lime leaves, 20 flowers of orange juice, 2 pieces of lemon, and one tablespoon of honey. Lime leaves and flowers are washed clean, then cut into pieces. Boil in three cups water, then cut into pieces. Boil in three cups water until the water remained about one cup, let it cool. Then filtered, mixed with honey and lemon water. Taken three times daily with a dose of half a glass.
  7. ½ lemon, 3 stalks celery, 5 pieces of avocado leaves, and 2 cups water. All ingredients are washed clean and cut into pieces. Then boiled in a closed state for 15 minutes, then refrigerate in a closed condition. Once cool, add lemon water, then filtered. Taken twice a day as much as three-quarters cup until cured.
  8. 16 stalks celery washed out completely, then cut into pieces and boiled in 2 cups water until the remaining approximately 1 cup. Leave the cooking water until cool. Celery drink boiled water and eat as much as two times a day with a dose of half a glass to drink.
  9. Centella asiatica fresh leaf 50 grams (4 cell), fresh turmeric 3 of the thumb, and 500 cc of water and honey to taste. Turmeric and the kola leaves cut thin and then boiled in water until the volume of 500 cc to 150 cc. After that, filtered and take water. After a warm (60 ° C), enter the honey little by little while stirring until blended. This herb is taken 3 times a 1 tablespoon every day until normal blood pressure.
  10. Honey 250 cc, three thumbs fresh turmeric, tamarind 1 thumb, 50 g of fresh bitter leaf (3 phones), and water 500 cc. Turmeric and bitterleaf cleaned and cut. Material was boiled with tamarind in water until the volume of 500 cc to 250 cc. After that, the water boiled and filtered water taken. After a warm, put honey little by little while stirring until blended. This herb is taken 3 times 2-3 tablespoons every day until cured.
good luck and good health always