Use traditional Chinese medicine to reduce blood pressure

The 2018-03-06 health

Hypertension is a common and frequent disease of the elderly. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is based on the principle of balance of qi, blood, Yin and Yang in the viscera of the human body.

As early as the Ming and qing dynasties, jingyue quanshu recorded that the dizziness of the elderly was often caused by aging, aging, fatigue, deficiency of the five viscera, sudden insomnia, dizziness and other symptoms. Chinese yam, cinnamon, raw ground, ripe ground, radix pseudostellariae, and other nourishing drugs, combined with a number of soothing and regulating qi, liver anti-reverse drugs, such as tianma, hook rattan, radix bupleuri, often can improve the symptoms of dizziness and vertigo. Adding important sedative drugs such as magnet, dragon tooth, oyster and keel can improve sleep. Taking one or two treatment courses has significant clinical effects. Patients often feedback when visiting the doctor again: "after taking the medicine, I feel that I sleep well and I feel refreshed."

In addition to conventional western medicine treatment, the author often recommends some familiar Chinese medicine decoction slices to the elderly patients with hypertension.

Gastrodia: for the herb tianma dry stem piece, may grind the end to take, also may make tea with. "Shen nong grass classics" cloud: "long service to improve strength, long Yin fat and health, light body increased year." Take tianma tea drink for a long time, have certain effect of lowering blood pressure, can alleviate dizziness, dizziness, vertigo symptom.

Poria cocos (poria cocos) is a dry fungus of poria cocos. It is often added into the decoction. It has the functions of diuresis, edema elimination and mental health maintenance.

Cassia seed: the mature seed of the herb cassia seed, which is dried and used in the sun, and Fried in water instead of tea. "This grass justice" cloud: "the Cassiopeia, is to benefit the liver and kidney, to the town shallow fill the Yin meaning, is the pei Ben's correct treatment, non-wenxin wind, cold and cold to reduce the heat of the disease legislators comparable, the most advantageous without harm." Often drink water of cassia seed, can clear liver bright eye, alleviate the eye is dry acerbity, red swollen, also can embellish bowel is laxative, improve dazzle, giddy.

Winter melon skin: the dried fruit skin of an herb, dried in the sun and used raw. Diuresis decoction with water instead of water, diuresis swelling, antipyretic and removing annoyance, has a certain diuretic hypertension effect.

Corn stalk: the style and stigma of herbaceous corn, the root of fresh corn picked after boiling water, or dried after tea drinking. Often drink corn beard water, can eliminate oedema, diuresis, the sand that eliminates urinary system, also can clear away the damp and hot evil in the body, have certain diuretic blood-pressure action.