Showing posts with label high blood pressure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high blood pressure. Show all posts

September 19, 2011

Re-Thinking about Herbal High Blood Pressure Treatment

One of the alternative treatments for high blood pressure treatment that often overlooked is herbal remedies and that will be briefly discussed here.


High blood pressure is a common name for hypertension.  It increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, nearly one in three adults in the United States has high blood pressure. We can have high blood pressure for years without experiencing symptoms or knowing we have it unless it happens very suddenly.


A new trend of herbal remedies for high blood pressure or hypertension has been mentioned as more and more people are looking for alternative ways to restore health or keep healthy and integrative herbalism is one of those ways.  It is surprising that western medicine didn’t fully realize its benefit until the end of the 20th century.  That will not be too early to back to the future and find out what herbal medicines were used for blood pressure hundreds of years.