Changes in eating patterns to eat fast food and some food that contains fat, protein, and high salt but low in fiber food (dietary fiber) cause the development of degenerative diseases (heart disease, diabetes, various cancers, osteoporosis, hypertension and stroke)
Hypertension is often called as the silent disease. Generally, patients with hypertension do not know before their blood pressure checked. The disease is also known as the heterogeneous group of disease because it can affect health of anyone from different age groups and socio-economic groups.
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition where a person's blood pressure at a level above normal. Normal systolic blood pressure was 120-140 mm Hg. While a normal diastolic blood pressure was 85-90 mm Hg. High blood diseases may be caused by various factors related to style life, such as poor diet, smoking, lack of exercise and stress.
Hypertension treatment can be done by non-pharmacological and pharmacological. In addition to medications and exercise, maintaining a diet is absolutely necessary. Dietary adjustments include reducing caloric intake, especially to people who are overweight, limiting salt intake, and increase consumption of vegetables and fruits.
Celery (Apium graveolens ) and Carambola wuluh (Averrhoa bilimbi) are vegetable and fruit which have many medicinal property that can be very helpful to treatment for hypertension.
Celery is very well known hypotensi effects (lower blood pressure). Celery has active ingredient is 3-n-butylpthalide. Pthalide is good content to help relax the muscles around the arteries and helps normalize blood vessel narrowing arteries. This is the main cause of hypertension. Celery is also known as natural diuretic.
Whereas Carambola wuluh has many chemical ingredients, including saponins, tannins, glukosid, calcium oxalate, sulfur, formic acid, peroxide, and potassium citrate. In Chinese pharmacology of this plant is known to relieve pain, increase the bile, anti-inflammatory and diuretic.
There are healthful recipe to control your blood tension to avoid hypertension high blood pressure:
- Drinking Celery Capsule
Celery capsule made from the dried celery leaves. Drinking two capsules per day after meals. Taken with 2 glasses of water per capsule. The ideal recommendation for high blood pressure is not more than four sticks of celery a day. - Drinking Carambola Wuluh Juice
Three Carambola wuluh fruit chopped, boiled with 3 glasses of water until the remaining one cup. After chilling filtered and drunk it in the morning after breakfast and evening after meals.
- Carambola wuluh – Celery Juice
To make a glass of Juice : Blender 100 gr Carambola wuluh fruit and 100 gr sticks of Celery, mix with ½ of glass cooked water and serve with ice. To more fine taste, can be added with honey.
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