Blood Pressure Remedies
For Your Life

Your blood pressure treatment includes bringing your systolic blood pressure to 140 mmHg or below and your diastolic blood pressure to 90 mmHg or below. If you already have coronary heart disease or are at high risk of it, a lower target of 130/80 mm Hg is highly recommended.

Your Lifestyle Changes

First allow for lifestyle changes before deciding to take medications, or incorporate lifestyle changes with blood pressure remedies enabling you to reduce the dose or number of drugs you need to take.

Lifestyles changes include you eating at least two cups of fruits and two cups of vegetables daily. Reducing your intake of unhealthy fat, such as saturated fat.

Healthy children and adults need no more than 1.25 grams of salt per day as long as you do not sweat heavily.

If you smoke quit, and limit your alcohol intake to no more than one drink a day for women or two drinks for men.

Use coping strategies to help you deal with stress.

Lose weight if you need to and do daily aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking for at least thirty minutes a day.

Complementary Treatment Of High Blood Pressure

There are a couple of holistic approaches you can include in the treating of your hypertension in conjunction with any medication your doctor may prescribe.

The main complementary treatments that can help treat high blood pressure are aromatherapy, naturopathy, herbal medicine, homeopathy, reflexology, acupuncture, acupressure, yoga, qigong and meditation.

Aromatherapy, yoga and meditation works mainly through you learning how to relax and overcoming stress. While reflexology, homeopathy, acupuncture and acupressure harness your own body's natural healing abilities to lower your blood pressure.

Herbal remedies uses plant extracts that have a physiological effect on your body, modifying its function in a complementary fashion similar to how some drugs work.

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is that of inhaling specific scents that can change your physiological state and that smell has an impact on your brain called the limbic system that helps regulate memory, arousal, emotions and hormone secretions.

The scents used by aromatherapists are essential oils which are derived from plants. Essentials oils are highly concentrated plant extracts and should be used with the label guidelines.

Using essential oils will help you to relax, promote sleep, and also can be used as a diuretic to flush out excess fluids.

Naturopathy

Naturopathy is based on your body's ability to find its own healthy equilibrium given the right conditions, such as a healthy diet, plenty of sleep, regular exercise, relaxation, fresh air, clean environment, a stress free lifestyle and a positive mental attitude.

A daily naturopathic exercise is to breathe slowly and deeply so that oxygen enters the bottom of your lungs for two minutes at least twice a day.

Homeopathic Treatments

Homeopathic remedies are made from plant, animal or mineral extracts that are chopped or ground, then steeped and shaken in an alcohol or water solution for two to four weeks.

The mixture is strained into a dark glass bottle to produce a tincture. This tincture is then taken in tiny amounts to stimulate your body's own healing powers.

Reflexology

Reflexology relaxes the body, mind and spirit, improves circulation and normalizes your bodily functions. Its aim is to treat the symptoms that causes illness.

Reflexology is performed on the soles of your feet by massaging certain pressure points that correspond with your heart, kidney and thyroid.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture works on the twelve pairs of meridian in your body by using needles to stimulate or suppress the flow of qi energy along these channels at specific places known as acupoints. Blockages in your liver meridian are linked to hypertension.

So long as your qi energy flows smoothly along the meridians, you live in a state of health and balance.

With acupressure there are no needles just your fingertips and used to exert certain amount of pressure or massage at the different acupressure points.

Acupuncture and acupressure are two natural blood pressure remedies with no side effect and will only complement your body's healing energy and balance.

Yoga

Your blood pressure remedies should include yoga.

Yoga is an ancient Hindu system of philosophy that uses postures, breath control and meditation to clam your mind an body.

The practice of yoga enhances the flow of life-force energy around your body. It is a powerful technique for reducing both your stress and blood pressure.

Qigong

Qigong is referred to as the Chinese yoga. It is usually taught in Tai Chi classes.

Qigong movements are often used to warm up before you practice the flowing sequence of tai chi.

When you practise qigong your breathing should be slow and deep and your movements should be in time with your breathing.

Meditation

Meditation involves you focusing your mind to achieve a state of calm and heightened awareness. A sure way to lower your high blood pressure.

Blood Pressure Medications

All these blood pressure remedies can be used in conjunction with medications your doctor may prescribe.

Once diagnose with high blood pressure, your lifestyle changes are not helping to lower your numbers and your blood pressure is elevated to a level that requires drug treatment, your doctor will select one or more medications from the following:

• ACE Inhibitors
• Angiotensin II Blockers
• Beta-blockers
• Thiazide diuretics

You should also purchase home monitoring systems that will reveal that your blood pressure remedies are working. Then you can ask your doctor about the possibility of lowering your medication dose.

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