DIET AND HOMEOPATHY FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

High blood pressure is a common condition that affects the body’s arteries. In high blood pressure, the force of blood pushing against the artery walls is consistently high. The heart has to work harder to pump blood.

Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury. In general hypertension is a blood pressure of 130/80 millimeters of mercury or higher.

DIET

1. Drink enough water.

2. Eat more fruits and vegetables high in both potassium, magnesium , and vitamins.

3. Eat more seeds high in magnesium. Take 500 mg daily. The richest source is dark green vegetables, nuts and seeds.

4. Avoid salt

5. Avoid alcohol and smoking.

HOMEOPATHY

ADRENALINUM

A palliative for high blood pressure. High arterial pressure and, roaring in ears.

ALLIUM SATIVA

High blood pressure associated with high cholesterol levels. Suit to fat and fleshy persons, who prefer non-vegetarian diet. Patients who eat a great deal more, especially meat, than they drink. The digestion is disturbed slightest irregularities in diet. Dull pain in occiput in morning. Heaviness in forehead

AMYLE NITROSUM

High blood pressure with breathlessness. Dyspnea. Shortness of breath and heaviness in the chest. Pain and constriction around heart. Pulsation all over the body. Flushing heat, followed by drenching sweats. Hot sensation in the body, fand redness of the face. Anxiety, as if something bad might happen, must have fresh air.

AURUM METALLICUM

High blood pressure with low pulse pressure. Hypertension from arteriosclerosis. Pulse rapid, feeble, and irregular.  Depression. Disgust of life.  Suicidal tendency but afraid of death.

BARYTA MURIATICA

Hypertension of the aged. Vascular degeneration causing hypertension. High systolic pressure with a comparatively low diastolic pressure.

BELLADONNA

Hypertension with violent palpitation, prolonged echoing sound in head with labored breath. Palpitation from least exertion and throbbing all through the body. Vertigo with falling on left side or backward. Skin flushed and hot. Great anxiety or fear. Sensitive to touch, noise, jar.

BOEHAAVIA DIFFUSA

Hypertension with palpitation. Increased blood pressure with ringing in ears and heat of vertex. Blurred vision and profuse perspiration.

CACATUS GRANDIFLORUS

Hypertension with heart diseases. A feeling of constriction in the heart region and have angina pain.

CONIUM MACULATUM

Hypertension of bachelors and maids in old age.

CRATAEGUS OXY

A heart tonic. A specific remedy for high blood pressure. Dyspnea on least exertion.

LYCOPUS VIRGINICUS

Lowers blood pressure by reducing the rate of heart and increasing the length of systole to a greater degree. Pulse weak, irregular and intermittent. Heart’s action is tumultuous and forcible. Hypertension with hypertrophy of heart with dilatation.  Aneurism of heart vessels near heart.

NATRUM MURIATICUM

Great weakness, and weariness, especially in the morning in bed. Tachycardia. Palpitation shaking the body, or alternating with beating in head. Easily exhausted. Oversensitive to external stimuli like sounds, smells or lights.  Introvert patients. Great craving for salt and salty food. Hypertension with hyperthyroidism and goiter. Headache, worse from sunlight.

LACHESIS

High blood pressure, especially during menopause or post menopause.  Great sensitiveness to touch, cannot tolerate bed-clothes, or night dress to touch throat or abdomen, clothes cause an uneasiness, make her nervous. Intolerance of tight bands about neck or waist. Headache, left side. Complaints worse at night.

GLONOINE

High blood pressure with congestive headache. Blood rushes upwards.  Bursting and expansion sensation.  Headache aggravated by heat of sun. Great lassitude, no inclination to work, extreme irritability. Violent palpitations, throbbing carotids. Pulsation in the whole body to the finger tips. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells.

PHYSOSTIGMA

Hypertension with a feeling a cap is gripping the head.

PITUITRINUM

Relieves the headache of patients suffering from high blood pressure.

PLUMBUM METALLICUM

Hypertension from arteriosclerosis. From gout or kidney diseases. Skin pale. Red blood corpuscles are decreased.

RADIUM BROMIDE

High blood pressure from atherosclerosis. Pulse is rapid, irregular and fluttering. Awakes at night due to palpitation. Sensation of constriction in the heart region. Great weakness.

RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA

A specific remedy for hypertension. It is used as a palliative for high blood pressure.

SPARTIUM SCORPARIUMS

Spartian sulphate increases the strength of the heart, slows it and reduces the blood pressure. It lowers both systolic and diastolic pressures. It weakens the cardiac contraction.

STROPHANTHUS HISPIDUS

Increases the contractile power of all striped muscles. Aching on the muscles of the heart, it increases the systole and diminishes the rapidity. Being a greater diuretic, it can be used in those cases of hypertension caused various dropsical conditions. Hypertension from atherosclerosis, hypertension from rigid arteries of the aged people. Pulse quickened due to its increased contractile action on the heart muscle.

SUMBULUS MOSCHATUS

Hypertension from atherosclerosis. Nervous palpitation. Pulse irregular. Loses breath on any exertion. A tissue remedy for sclerosed arteries.

TERMINALIA ARJUNA

High blood pressure with vertigo, palpitation and a sense of mental and physical exhaustion. It is a heart tonic used both in functional and organic diseases of the heart with symptoms like palpitation, and weakness of the heart.

THUJA OCCIDENTAILS

High blood pressure with personal or parental history of coronary thrombosis. Hypertension is associated with poor arterial wall.

VANADIUM METALLICUM

Degenerative conditions of the arteries. Arteriosclerosis, sensation as if heart was compressed, as if blood had no room in the aorta. Anxious pressure on whole chest. Atheroma of arteries and brain. Hypertension leading to atherosclerosis.

VERATRUM VIRIDE

Hypertension with oppression, sighing, rapid respiration and grasping for breath. Lowers both systolic and diastolic pressure.

VISCUM ALBUM

Hypertension from hypertrophy and valvular insufficiency of heart. Pulse small and weak. Unable to rest in a reclining position. Palpitation during sex. Weight and oppression of heart, as if hand were squeezing it. Heart beat irregular.

Mix CRATAEGUS OXY. Q, PASSIFLORA INCARNATA Q, and RAUWOLFIA SEPENTINA Q in equal proportions and give 15 drops in water every 2 hours for immediate relief. This is the only palliation.