How does TCM view high blood pressure? Is there a TCM method that treats both the symptoms and the root causes? To this end, the Hainan Daily reporter interviewed Wang Gao'an, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College.
A common cause of hypertension
Overeating is fatty and cloudy and endogenous (overnutrition, blood cloudiness and stasis). Now people's nutritional intake greatly exceeds the need, wait until the age of growth, the body function to decline, the need for nutrition will only be less, if you continue to excess, hoarded nutrients will enter the blood, the blood becomes viscous, the flow is no longer smooth, the heart is difficult to send blood to the brain, the human body in order to solve this problem, on the rise in hypertension, so excessive nutritional intake is a major cause of hypertension.
Irregular diet and living, abnormal work and leisure, and the injury of the seven emotions leads to aging, liver and kidney deficiency. Irregular diet and living, abnormal work and leisure, resulting in aging, liver and kidney deficiency, yang deficiency and cold. Where the stasis, mostly belongs to the cold, cold condensation, absorption, because of the cold and coagulation, into the cloudy, including blood stasis, phlegm drinking, water wetness, etc., resulting in blood stasis is not smooth, the blood supply of the organs of the whole body is insufficient, the compensatory blood pressure of the human body is increased, and the blood supply of the organs of the whole body is guaranteed.
How TCM treats high blood pressure
Traditional Chinese medicine decoction treatment Of traditional Chinese medicine decoction treatment, it is necessary to dialectically treat, one of the important points is to always pay attention to maintaining the body's righteous qi, yang qi, do not hurt the right. Hypertension is often associated with liver and kidney deficiency, yang deficiency, and cold and evil insiders. Where there is not a yang in the body, there is a yin condensation here. Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" is also the word "cold" that he attaches importance to, and the method of curing the disease also needs to be based on cold removal. Cold evil comes from the outside, the way of evil is also the way of evil, so to cure all kinds of cold evidence, we need to pay attention to cultivating yang qi to get rid of cold evil, if the yang temperature can be passed, then the yin condensation is self-dispersing, and the blood pressure is normal and stable.
Exercise therapy and dietary therapy Chinese medicine believes that moving yang and avoiding cold coagulation stagnation. Exercise is conducive to eliminating excess nutrition and avoiding blood cloudiness and stasis. You can play tai chi, walk, eight dan jin and so on. At the same time, people with high blood pressure should have a regular diet, that is, the time, amount, variety, etc. of diet should be regular, reasonable, and conform to the laws of nature.
Preventive health care commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine
Diet is moderate, living often finds that blood pressure increases, what to do? Hurry up and self-analyze all the wrong life, diet, and behavior habits in the past, especially eating raw and cold and hurting the yang, gaining weight and moving less and stasis, abusing drugs and chaos, living abnormally and being damaged, overwork and exhaustion, and correcting it immediately when found, which is the fundamental guarantee for curing hypertension. Combined with the correct treatment, with decoction, acupuncture, moxibustion, acupuncture, guided massage and other mixtures, it can be cured.
Avoid eating fatty and excessive nutrition where arteriosclerosis, hypertension and stroke, etc., are mostly related to overeating fat. In Chinese medicine, fat is mostly moist and hot and raw, and it should be eaten appropriately. Fat, all the thick juice of the meat, are easy to cause phlegm endogenous, block the gas machine, wind phlegm chaos, so that blood pressure increases, headache, dizziness, tinnitus and other symptoms. First of all, it starts with adjusting the diet, sometimes it is better to be hungry than to be full. In particular, eating less at night can make yourself healthier. Eating too much, overnutrition, easy to muddy blood stasis.
Pay attention to laxative, turbidity and constipation, affect the human body's qi machine, constipation is the internal return of toxins in the intestine, dry and injurious, the source of various diseases. Clinically seen, hypertension, stroke, hyperlipidemia, etc., common constipation. (Reporter Ma Ke)
Editor: Zhou Weihua
【Source: Hainan Daily】