Blood viscosity refers to an increase in the solid components in the blood, leading to increased blood flow resistance and decreased blood flow speed. High blood lipids, increased red blood cells and platelets in the blood, and an increase in certain protein components may all cause the blood to become viscous.
For the general population, even if a medical report shows an increase in blood viscosity, there is no need to be overly concerned. The human body has a strong regulatory ability to automatically maintain the balance of the internal blood environment and generally does not require special treatment.
However, middle-aged and elderly individuals as well as those with cardiovascular diseases need to pay special attention to blood viscosity. After an increase in blood viscosity, it is easy to form clots when passing through small blood vessels. If small clots develop into large clots, serious vascular occlusion may occur.
Due to the abundance of food and irregular lifestyles in modern life, most people already show symptoms of blood stickiness at a young age, but they may not pay attention to it. If young people experience blood stickiness, it should be promptly diluted to prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases with age and over time.
Here’s a method introduced to you which can effectively reduce blood viscosity without medication, you might as well give it a try.
For individuals with high blood viscosity, especially the elderly, if blood viscosity occurs, it may lead to many other diseases, especially increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood viscosity can be alleviated by tapping the elbow fossa, with good results.
In addition to modern medical techniques and medications, the traditional Chinese medicine technique of gua sha can also promote blood purification. The elbow and knee fossa are the pathways of the meridians. When there is an accumulation of metabolic waste in the blood or an increase in viscosity, blood stagnation can easily occur here. Tapping this area intermittently can lead to blood stagnation. Eliminating metabolic waste through such tapping is the simplest way to purify the blood.
Specific method: Apply gua sha oil to the elbow or knee fossa, relax the muscles around the joints, and tap vertically with the palm against the fossa while the joint is facing up. The tapping intensity should gradually increase, with breaks between each set of taps. The amount of tapping causing blood stagnation varies among individuals; even a small amount of blood stagnation is enough, and tapping can continue until no new stagnation appears. Initially, tap every two weeks, then every 3-6 months.
Apart from this method, dietary therapy can also help reduce blood viscosity:
Black garlic has a good effect on blood vessels, as allicin found in it can eliminate fat deposits in the blood vessels and help in lowering lipid levels, making it an effective remedy for hyperlipidemia and arteriosclerosis. Black garlic, produced through high-temperature fermentation of garlic, not only helps in cleaning blood vessels but also has a positive impact on preventing cancer.
Dried mulberries contain fatty acids that can break down fats, lower blood lipids, prevent lipid deposition in blood vessels, and prevent arteriosclerosis. It is also known as the “March Mulberries as Good as Ginseng.” Drinking water soaked with dried mulberries can help supplement qi and blood, eliminate body toxins, promote beauty, regulate endocrine disorders, and treat constipation.
Kuding tea can lower serum total cholesterol and triglycerides in individuals with hyperlipidemia while improving blood circulation, clearing blood garbage, and helping to clean blood vessels. Kuding tea contains various essential amino acids and vitamins necessary for the human body, and it has the effects of dispelling wind heat, clearing the head, relieving irritability and thirst, earning it the title of “longevity tea.”
Hawthorn contains triterpenoids and flavonoids that significantly dilate blood vessels, reduce blood pressure, regulate blood lipids and cholesterol levels. The calcium in hawthorn can lower blood lipids, prevent thrombosis, and reduce blood pressure. Drinking hawthorn water after consuming sticky rice and hard-to-digest meats can promote digestion and have good effects on body strengthening and blood pressure and lipid reduction.
Eucommia ulmoides has been praised as the highest quality natural antihypertensive medicine globally. Regular consumption can accelerate blood flow speed, improve microcirculation function, effectively lower blood pressure, improve complications caused by hypertension, cleanse the body of waste, strengthen cellular metabolism, improve blood vessel elasticity, restore hardened blood vessels’ original elasticity, and restore the body’s self-regulation mechanism, thus reducing blood pressure.
Rubus tea, made from Rubus leaves produced in the Rubus region, contains the richest amount of bioactive substances like aucubin, quercetin, and over 200 other active substances known in plant species, with Rubus tea from the Rubus region averaging 72 times higher than those from other regions. Boil 10g of Rubus tea in a container with 500-600ml of water for about 10 minutes, then add 300-400ml of water and boil for an extra 3-5 minutes. Drink 3 cups of tea a day for 6 weeks, and blood pressure can drop by 7 percentage points. This effect is due to the plant chemical components found in the Rubus tea from the Beitian region.
Experiments have shown that Rubus tea made from wild Rubus in Xinjiang, the main ingredient of Rubus tea, acts as a biological blood detergent, significantly improving the fragility and permeability of blood vessels in the human body when consumed for a long time, removing free radicals, toxins from the chemical drugs taken over the years, and lipids, heavy metals, alkalis, and crystalline compounds on the blood vessel walls. This cleaning effect on the blood, delaying blood vessel aging, is very effective in cases of hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and common conditions in the elderly like asthma, insomnia, chest tightness, and constipation. It has been dubbed by experts as a “green human blood cleaner and blood vessel softener.”
CCTV’s program “Exploring Science: Secrets and Discoveries” has featured a detailed report on “The Mystery of the Longevity and Health of the Rubus Elderly,” extensively reporting on Rubus tea. The reporters have had cordial conversations and shaken hands with centenarians who have been consuming Rubus tea for a long time, displaying agility in actions, clear thinking, and articulate speech, which is attributed to their long-term consumption of Rubus tea. Rubus tea is a preventive and therapeutic agent, capable of bidirectional blood pressure regulation, blood vessel garbage and excess fat removal.
