Herbs For High Blood Pressure Remedy

Executive Summary about Herbs For High Blood Pressure by Shelly Morgan and about Herbal High Blood Pressure Remedy by Johannes Stolp

What is Blood pressure? It is the force of blood against the walls of arteries. Blood pressure is recorded as two numbers—the systolic pressure (as the heart beats) over the diastolic pressure (as the heart relaxes between beats). Normal Blood Pressure is less than 120 mmHg systolic and less than 80 mmHg diastolic. High blood pressure (Hypertension) is a condition that increases the risk of strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure and other serious health problems. Although there are degrees of hypertension, anything over 120 - 139 systolic and 80- 89 diastolic can be dangerous and needs to be reduced. What you need to do to regulate blood pressure?

There are many causal if we abuse it can contribute to high blood pressure: being overweight, eating too much salt, stress, and alcohol. But there are many ways and possibilities to support high blood pressure with drugs or with drug free natural high blood pressure remedies. For example, it is a good idea to eat healthy, exercise and walk more, drink more water, get rid of habits like drinking or smoking a lot and try to reduce stress in your life and if possible work in a stress free job.

If you want to do even more you can use herbs to reduce the need for drugs, that is natural remedies for hypertension. Herbs like garlic, celery, hawthorn and mistletoe can all contribute to normalizing your blood pressure.

Garlic

Garlic is very popular as a herbs can cure for hypertension. Research have shown that garlic supplements reduce pressure. It contains a substance called allicin, which relaxes the blood vessels, lowers the blood pressure and reduces the damage to the blood vessels.

Garlic also lowers cholesterol gets rid of plaque and helps to prevent the building of clots of blood in the vessels.

If you are afraid of the odor whole garlic can cause you can use garlic supplements instead. This will add allicin to your daily diet as well. However if you want to get the best results and all of the health benefits of garlic it is even better to eat whole garlic.

To support hypertension effectively you should eat about 2 to 3 cloves daily. This is not that much and of course you do not have to eat it raw and all at the same time. You can just add a little to each of your meals.

If taking prescription medicines such as warfarin or aspirin, however, garlic should be used only under the supervision of a qualified health practitioner, as all of these supplements are blood thinners.

Celery

Celery as a high blood pressure remedy can help to fight hypertension by getting rid of different toxins that cause high blood pressure. It does this by increasing the urine flow, which is a very effective way to get rid of toxins and harmful substances in your body in general.

You can consume celery as a drink. As a juice to be more specific. To make celery juice first visit your local grocery store and get some firm, straight and dark in colour celery stalks that are rigid in texture as well. Then clean the celery and cut of the top and the bottom part of the stalks.

Juice one whole stalk with your juicer and fill the celery juice into an 8 oz size glass. Stir the drink and drink it soon after preparation. It is recommended that you drink one glass a day.

The mistletoe

The mistletoe is a plant growing in the branches of trees and we know that hundreds of years ago people were already using it to treat various diseases. In some regions people even believed that this plant was holy because of its stunning healing powers.

One effective way to use these healing powers as a high blood pressure remedy is to drink mistletoe tea regularly. To make a mistletoe tea take one teaspoon of mistletoe (fresh or dried) and put it into 1/4 litre of cool water. Let it soak overnight. Then filter it and warm it up the next morning. To make this an effective remedy you should drink three to four cups a day, one after each meal and an additional one if you like it. You should drink mistletoe tea for several months because even if your blood pressure normalizes it will help you to keep it low if you keep on drinking it.

You can also use mistletoe baths to decrease your stress level and improve your overall health, which are two important aspects if we talk about hypertension. Many distributors of natural and herbal remedies sell great mistletoe baths and some other good.

Hawthorn

Hawthorn is a herb that has a good effect on the diastolic blood pressure so your blood pressure when your heart is resting during the cardiac cycle. It also influences the systolic blood pressure but its effect on the diastolic pressure is way bigger and more important.

This herb supports the blood flow and opens arteries, which leads to a reduction of the overall blood pressure. If you want to try hawthorn as a high blood pressure remedy I recommend that you see your doctor first and talk about the usage of hawthorn. You should make sure that you do not take other medications or vitamins and supplements that could interact with hawthorn in a negative way.

You can take hawthorn capsules or drink hawthorn tea. Talk about the details of the use and dosage of Hawthorn as a remedy for high blood pressure with your doctor and only take the dosages your doctor recommends.

I would recommend that you consult your doctor before you use any kind of treatment on your own. Although the blood pressure remedies I just presented are mainly harmless and this means that there is no real downside to them, it is always a good idea to consult a professional and ask for his or her opinion.