Hypertension belongs to one of the “three highs” and has the characteristics of being difficult to cure and having a long cycle. Once infected, it is destined to be a torment. Many people choose to use medication to lower blood pressure, which can have immediate effects. If combined with the following dietary therapy while taking medication, the effect of lowering blood pressure is even better!
Stir-Fried Sesame Tofu with Lamb Fat
If you don’t eat lamb fat, you can use other edible oils for stir-frying, but the sesame tofu must be processed with mung beans as the raw material. When stir-frying sesame tofu, you can add an appropriate amount of salt, chopped green onions, fresh ginger, and use 150 grams of oil to fry 500 grams of sesame tofu. Whenever blood pressure is unstable or high, patients can prepare it in the same way, and you will find the effect remarkable.
Radish Congee
Ingredients and method: You need two fresh carrots, an appropriate amount of white rice. First, chop the carrots, then put them together with 500 grams of white rice in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer on low heat to make congee for consumption.
Effect: Can clear heat, assist in lowering blood pressure, suitable for various types of hypertensive patients.
Celery Congee
Ingredients and method: Prepare 120 grams of celery with roots, an appropriate amount of white rice. First, wash and chop the celery, then put it together with 250 grams of white rice in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer on low heat to make congee for consumption.
Effect: Can clear liver heat, assist in lowering blood pressure, suitable for hypertensive patients with liver yang hyperactivity and yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity.
Lamb Medicinal Soup
Ingredients and method: Prepare 18 grams of Chinese angelica, 30 grams of fresh ginger, 250 grams of lamb, 6 grams of ginseng, 30 grams of astragalus, etc. After preparation, wash the ginseng, Chinese angelica, and astragalus, then cut them into slices. Remove the fascia from the lamb, wash and cut it into strips, then put the lamb, Chinese angelica, astragalus, ginseng, ginger, and other ingredients into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil and skim the foam, then simmer on low heat until the lamb is tender.
Effect: Can tonify qi and nourish blood, suitable for hypertensive patients with deficiency of both qi and blood.
In addition to these dietary therapies, the following blood pressure-lowering foods can also be consumed regularly
Artemisia Selengensis Tea contains flavonoids that can act by eliminating reactive oxygen species to resist arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia, relieve angina, improve heart function, and help improve cerebral ischemia, enhance brain oxygen supply capacity, thus having a certain rehabilitative effect on heart, vascular diseases, paralysis, dementia, and other conditions.
Burdock Tea contains rich water-soluble fibers and inulin, which can block the enterohepatic circulation of cholesterol, increase the excretion of bile salts and cholesterol, regulate blood sugar, blood lipids, lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and has a nourishing effect on the spleen and stomach.
Burdock contains abundant Arctiopin, which can dilate blood vessels and make blood circulation smoother. The dietary fiber in burdock root has the function of adsorbing sodium and excreting it with feces, reducing the sodium content in the body; at the same time, the calcium content is also very high, calcium can transport sodium into the urine and excrete it from the body; the protein in burdock can make blood vessels flexible, separate sodium from cells, and excrete it from the body; arctiopin can dilate blood vessels, resulting in a decrease in blood pressure. High-fiber burdock helps diabetic patients control blood sugar and improve the fluctuation of blood sugar.
Kudzu Root can improve blood circulation in the brain, has a good relieving effect on symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and back and leg pain caused by hypertension, regular consumption of kudzu root tea has a significant therapeutic effect on hypertension. Kudzu root powder is nutritious and suitable for people of all ages as a health food, kudzu root has a significant effect on lowering blood sugar, the flavonoids in kudzu root have lipid-lowering effects and have a good effect on improving blood vessel dilation.
