When it comes to blood clots, many people are both familiar and unfamiliar. Familiarity comes from knowing people around us who have been disabled or died due to blood clots. Everyone knows that this disease is serious and alarming. However, many people feel distant from this disease, thinking it only affects the elderly, leading to a lack of understanding due to neglect. In reality, blood clots are not exclusive to the elderly; they concern each of us. This is because blood clots are caused by excess blood waste, cardiovascular aging, and hardening, all of which are closely related to unhealthy lifestyles and insufficient attention to cardiovascular health.
Therefore, after the age of 30, we must strengthen daily cardiovascular maintenance to prevent cardiovascular diseases. So, what can be done specifically? One suggestion is to consider dietary adjustments. Here are some ingredients that may seem ordinary but act as natural “urokinase.” Regular consumption of these ingredients can help keep the blood vessels clear!
When it comes to “urokinase,” cardiovascular patients are familiar with it as a common clot-dissolving medication. However, the following natural ingredients are comparable to natural “urokinase” without any side effects, so consider consuming them regularly.
1. Matsutake Mushroom
The main components of Matsutake mushroom are nucleic acids and linoleic acid. These components help cleanse the body’s blood of waste, reduce cholesterol levels, blood viscosity, and effectively prevent conditions like stroke, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and cerebral thrombosis.
2. Lemon
Lemon can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, alleviate the effects of calcium ions in blood clotting, prevent and treat conditions like hypertension and myocardial infarction. Citric acid in lemon aids in vasoconstriction, strengthens capillaries, reduces permeability, enhances coagulation function, platelet count, shortens clotting and bleeding time by 31% to 71%, and has hemostatic effects. Vitamin C in lemon not only boosts the immune system but also softens blood vessels, maintains vessel elasticity, and prevents blockages.
3. Black Garlic
Garlic itself is a great health food, and black garlic has remarkable effects. It shows significant preventive and therapeutic effects on diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and cancer. Black garlic exhibits antioxidant and acid-resistant effects dozens of times higher than fresh garlic. It is rapidly absorbed by the body, enhances immunity, and aids in alleviating fatigue.
4. Eucommia Bark
Eucommia bark is effective in lowering blood pressure, preventing vascular sclerosis, coronary heart disease, anti-aging, anti-tumor properties, and more. It promotes weight loss, natural blood pressure reduction, nourishing kidney deficiency, strengthening the body against aging, and has other health benefits. Eucommia bark tea contains various natural active ingredients like chlorogenic acid that promote coronary artery blood circulation, effectively treating cardiovascular diseases.
5. Tartary Buckwheat Tea
Tartary buckwheat tea aids in restoring pancreatic β cells, lowering blood sugar and serum cholesterol levels, improving sugar tolerance by counteracting the blood sugar-increasing effect of adrenaline. It inhibits aldose reductase, thus treating diabetes and its complications. The rich content of rutin in Tartary buckwheat has vasodilatory effects, while quercetin and cyanidin improve vascular smooth muscle contraction and relaxation. It can also be used to treat arrhythmia, angina, myocardial infarction, among other conditions.
6. Hawthorn
Hawthorn dilates coronary arteries, relaxes blood vessels, eliminates excess toxins, and effectively reduces cholesterol levels while cleansing blood waste. It accelerates metabolism and boosts immunity. Steeping dried hawthorn in water and consuming it regularly can aid in digestion, prevent cardiovascular diseases, lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and soften blood vessels.
7. Sophora Japonica Tea
Sophora japonica tea not only contains essential amino acids, vitamins, zinc, manganese, rubidium, and other trace elements necessary for the body but also has lipid-lowering, increased coronary blood flow, improved myocardial blood supply, and anti-atherosclerosis effects. Known as the tea for longevity, it disperses heat, clears the head, relieves thirst, and assists in eliminating blood waste with daily consumption.
8. Ramie Leaf Tea
Growing resilient in harsh environments along the ancient Silk Road, Ramie leaf is a miraculous presence. Xinjiang, known for its meat-heavy diet, has a saying, “A day without tea is considered disapproval, three days without tea means illness.” Despite the local diet being rich in fatty foods, the habit of consuming Ramie leaf tea year-round has contributed to the longevity of its centenarians.
9. Hemp Seed
Hemp seed, a specialty of Bama, a longevity village, not only eliminates excess fat particles and cholesterol from the body but also maintains or restores the normal resistance of capillaries, enhances vascular flexibility and elasticity, lowers serum cholesterol, prevents fat deposition in blood vessel walls, is a good aide in cleansing blood vessels, and is a nemesis to cerebral thrombosis.
