Prevention and treatment of hypertension with traditional Chinese medicine
1, TCM classification of hypertension
The measurement of blood began about 19 10 years ago, so there was no concept of hypertension in Chinese medicine in history. According to statistics, among 265,438+03 hypertensive patients, 205 (95.8%) suffered from dizziness, 79 (37. 1%) suffered from eye problems, 65,438+024 (58.2%) suffered from headache and 865,438+0. So hypertension belongs to the category of dizziness and headache in traditional Chinese medicine. Dizziness refers to dizziness, and dizziness refers to dizziness, collectively referred to as dizziness. Light people can close their eyes and rest, while heavy people can't stand in cars or boats, or are accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sweating and even fainting. Some patients have headache, some have dull pain, some have severe swelling and tingling, some have severe pain, some have swelling and rushing, and even jump pain, nausea and vomiting, strong neck and numbness. There are also a few hypertensive patients who have no symptoms of dizziness, headache and swelling. 2. Pathogenic factors of hypertension
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the onset of hypertension is closely related to physical factors, emotional factors and life obstacles, among which the relationship between physical factors and emotional factors is more important.
1) physical factors
Hypertension is related to physical factors, which are mainly manifested in three aspects: innate nature, constitution and onset age. A large part of patients with hypertension are related to their innate nature. The human body is endowed by parents, and men and women are pregnant, form embryos and develop, so the physical condition of children is closely related to the quality of parents' innate essence. The constitution of patients with hypertension comes from the influence of their parents' innate essence and has a family history of hypertension. Most of their constitutions belong to the types of yin deficiency of liver and kidney and hyperactivity of liver yang in traditional Chinese medicine. According to the investigation and analysis, 50 of 88 people with normal blood pressure have no family history of hypertension, while only 1 of 63 patients with hypertension have no family history. The survey also shows that the blood pressure of some children over the age of 30 whose parents have hypertension is almost higher than normal. Influenced by innate endowment, some people find that their blood pressure rises around the age of 30, and their condition develops rapidly. In terms of human body shape, patients with hypertension are common in people of two types. One is thin, irritable, and flushed. It belongs to the primitive constitution of yin deficiency of liver and kidney and hyperactivity of liver yang in traditional Chinese medicine, so it suffers from hypertension. The other is plump and obese people. This kind of person has deficiency of spleen-qi, excessive phlegm-dampness, wind-phlegm invading the fan and high blood pressure. Some people think that weight is closely related to blood pressure. For obese people, systolic blood pressure will increase by 12.5 kg, and diastolic blood pressure will increase by 7 mm Hg. The incidence of hypertension is related to age. The peak age of hypertension is middle-aged people aged 40-49. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the growth and development process of human body is closely related to innate essence. After the age of 40, human kidney qi gradually declines, kidney essence gradually loses, liver and kidney are insufficient, liver yang is hyperactive, and it is easy to suffer from hypertension.
2) Seven emotional factors
Emotional factors are the second factor of hypertension. Traditional Chinese medicine has always attached importance to the relationship between emotion and disease. People's mood changes are too drastic, which exceeds the adjustment ability of human viscera, and will cause illness. If people are angry, the liver qi rushes up and the blood rises with the qi, high blood pressure will occur. Another example is ecstasy, excessive sadness, extreme sadness, panic and so on. , it will also cause the dysfunction of human organs, and the heart, liver and gallbladder functions are the most disturbed. Hypertension will occur when the liver is disturbed, the liver qi stagnates, the liver qi goes up, the liver fire goes up and the liver yang goes up. The disorder of the heart can also be regarded as hyperactivity of heart and liver, hyperactivity of heart fire and imbalance of heart and kidney, which can cause hypertension. Therefore, the internal injury of seven emotions affects the imbalance of heart, liver, gallbladder, yin and yang and qi and blood, which will lead to high blood pressure, especially for young people and strong people. Long-term mental stress, heart and liver involvement can also cause hypertension. The survey shows that hypertension mostly occurs in jobs and jobs with high mental stress, such as car drivers, bank accountants, telegraph operators, aerial workers and intellectuals, which is related to their mental stress and emotional overuse. Environment also has a great influence on people's mood. For example, living in an environment with excessive noise for a long time will make people nervous, uneasy and vulnerable to high blood pressure. Some people surveyed nearly a thousand people and found that 23% of the people living on both sides of the streets with heavy traffic and serious noise suffered from hyperlipidemia, which was significantly higher than that of the control group (15%). Attention should be paid to the emotional factors of hypertension.
3) Life obstacle
Changes in people's life rules or loss of conditioning will also lead to changes in viscera, qi, blood, yin and yang, and also lead to hypertension. Work and rest can lead to high blood pressure. Overwork damages healthy qi, especially the imbalance of qi, blood and yin and yang in spleen, liver and kidney, which is prone to spleen deficiency leading to phlegm-dampness, wind-phlegm imbalance, liver and kidney deficiency and hyperactivity of liver yang, leading to hypertension. Chinese medicine also believes that after middle age, kidney essence is gradually deficient, so it is necessary to control sexual intercourse and maintain semen. Excessive sexual intercourse, kidney essence consumption, yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity can also cause hypertension. Excessive ease of life, lack of exercise, stagnation of qi and blood, and bad temper can also lead to high blood pressure. Improper diet plays an important role in the pathogenesis of hypertension. Gluttony, fat and sweet, hurting the spleen and blocking the stomach, producing dampness and brewing phlegm, blocking phlegm and disturbing wind phlegm will lead to high blood pressure. People who drink too much help to keep wet and warm, and liver yang tends to rise and hypertension tends to occur. Overeating spicy and other things will damage the yin and turn it into fire, damage the yin essence, and the fire will rush upward, thus causing high blood pressure. Especially those who are addicted to salt, blood coagulation and kidney qi injury will increase blood pressure. In short, the onset of hypertension is related to physical, emotional and life obstacles.
3. Prevention of hypertension
The incidence of hypertension is closely related to physical, emotional and life obstacles, so the prevention of hypertension should also firmly grasp these links. First of all, we should pay attention to adjusting our emotions, keep cheerful and optimistic, and avoid long-term mental tension, so that our spirits and emotions can be relaxed and our hearts refreshed. First of all, we should eliminate excessive extravagant hopes, be indifferent to emptiness, be humble when things go wrong, be angry and natural, and be happy and natural. It is necessary to reduce thinking, relax nervousness, eliminate noise interference and maintain mental comfort. People are refreshed at every happy event, and joy can make people relaxed, eliminate mental fatigue, and regulate the function of viscera, thus slowing down the heart rate and lowering blood pressure. The incidence of hypertension is related to people's physical factors. In order to prevent hypertension, obese people should lose weight properly, reduce food intake reasonably, and increase physical labor and physical exercise appropriately, so as to lose weight and reduce the chance of suffering from hypertension. People with a family history of hypertension or over 40 years old should have regular health check-ups in order to find and treat hypertension as early as possible. To prevent hypertension, we should adjust our life and try our best to live in an orderly way. Pay attention to adjust the diet, eat less sweet and strong flavor, appropriately reduce the intake of salt, and control spicy and irritating food, but drink strong tea, coffee and other drinks, and avoid smoking and alcohol. It has been reported that after smoking a cigarette, the systolic blood pressure can be increased by 10-25mmhg, and the heartbeat can be accelerated by 5-20 times. After middle age, we should ensure sleep, stay up as little as possible, and moderately control sexual intercourse, reduce excessive loss of kidney essence, and maintain abundant energy and good health. 4. Self-care methods for patients with hypertension
Patients with hypertension should not only ask doctors for medication, but also actively treat themselves.
1) Self-care can first arrange some activities beneficial to physical and mental health, eliminate tension factors and keep blood pressure stable. Such as planting flowers, raising birds and raising fish, listening to music, learning calligraphy, painting and fishing, can cultivate sentiment and calm the mind.
2) Massage health care. Massage the head, wipe the forehead with the index finger or middle finger of both hands, then press the temples on both sides of the head with the palm of your hand, then separate your fingers and comb your hair repeatedly from the forehead to the back of the pillow for 5- 10 minutes each time. Massage the head can clear the head, calm the liver yang, refresh the mind, relieve pain and dizziness, make the head relaxed and comfortable, and lower blood pressure. There are also methods such as rubbing your back and taking blood pressure points. For example, rubbing the back, clenching fists with both hands, and forcibly massaging the back up and down for 3-5 minutes each time have the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening waist, relaxing meridians and lowering blood pressure. The blood pressure point is 5 cm on both sides of the sixth cervical vertebra. Acupoint can dredge meridians and lower blood pressure.
3) Wash feet and take medicine. Before going to bed at night, wash your feet with warm water and soak your feet. During soaking, Yongquan point can be rubbed on the soles of feet and toes. After cleaning, you can apply medicinal powder (30g of Achyranthes bidentata and 5g of Evodia rutaecarpa, which are fine powder for external use, divided into 65,438+00 times), adjust it with vinegar and stick it on the soles of your feet with adhesive tape, and remove it the next morning. Foot-washing dressing has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, calming liver yang, and inducing fire to return to origin, and is effective for refractory hypertension.
4) handstand chiropractic prone position. Ask family members or assistants to massage the spine from the spine to the waist. Pinch the skin along both sides of the spine with your forefinger and thumb, and push forward while pinching, starting from Dazhui to cauda sacrum and waist, and repeat for 3-5 times. Reverse chiropractic can relax renal veins and lower blood pressure. 5) lick your stomach. The patient lies on his back, with his hands folded, and rubs his abdomen clockwise for 3-5 minutes each time. Rubbing the stomach can dredge the abdominal qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach, adjust the elevation and lower blood pressure. In addition, you can also do self-care activities such as sunbathing, forest bathing and hot spring bathing. All kinds of self-care should be carried out for a long time, which will have obvious effects, especially for consolidating the curative effect after treatment.
5. Physical therapy of hypertension The exercise method of hypertension self-regulation is also called physical therapy. Exercise is very beneficial to patients with hypertension, especially mental workers. There are many ways to exercise. Everyone should choose appropriate exercise methods according to their age, physique and illness, including walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan, Baduanjin, aerobics and Qigong. It is not advisable to choose sports with too much exercise, too much body swing and high exercise frequency.
1) Walking: generally, it should be carried out in the early morning, and the whole body should relax and breathe naturally, 50- 1000 meters a day to avoid fatigue, which is suitable for the elderly and seriously ill patients.
2) Jogging: generally speaking, on the basis of walking, gradually transition, gradually add a lot, highlight a slow word, do not seek speed, and exercise for 15-30 minutes.
3) Tai Ji Chuan: As Artest Tai Ji Chuan, you can choose to practice simplified Tai Ji Chuan or Equation Tai Ji Chuan according to your illness and physical condition. When boxing, the movements should be soft, the posture should be relaxed, the movements should be quiet and the movements should be combined. You can play in sets, or you can just repeat a few actions, 1-2 times a day, each time 15-30 minutes.
4) Qigong: Generally, you can keep your heart quiet, sit or stand. Sitting posture is to sit in a chair, push your legs apart naturally, put your hands on your thighs, palms down, relax, feel comfortable, eliminate distractions, stay in your abdomen, gently close your lips, slightly close your eyes, and adjust your breathing. Standing posture is that the body stands naturally, feet are shoulder height, knees are slightly bent, hands hold the ball in front of you, the whole body relaxes and stays in the abdomen, and breathing is adjusted. 10- 30 minutes each time, 1-2 times a day. All kinds of exercise methods are different, so we should choose the appropriate exercise method and amount according to the illness, age and physical condition. At the beginning of the activity, the amount of exercise should be smaller and shorter, and the amount should be increased according to the situation. Exercise has the functions of dredging qi and blood, calming the liver and calming the nerves, and lowering blood pressure.
6. Diet therapy for hypertension
Patients with hypertension should have a light diet and adequate nutrition, and eat less fat and sweets, such as animal viscera, egg yolk and animal oil. They should eat vegetable oil, such as peanut oil, rapeseed oil and soybean oil, and eat egg white and bean products to supplement nutrition. Vegetables such as celery, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, wax gourd, fungus, mushrooms, onions, kelp, garlic, amaranth, potatoes, loofah, taro, eggplant and fruits such as apples, bananas, watermelons, water chestnuts and hawthorn all have the function of lowering blood pressure or blood fat, so you can eat more. Millet, sorghum, beans and sweet potatoes can also be eaten more, which is good for high blood pressure.
Diet prescription:
1) vinegar peanuts: peanuts can be eaten after being soaked in vinegar and sealed for one week. Take 2-4 capsules before going to bed every night and chew them up.
2) jellyfish horseshoe drink: jellyfish 124 g, horseshoe 370 g, jellyfish washed, water chestnut washed without peeling, water 1000 ml, boiled to 250 ml, taken twice.
3) Rapeseed: 900g of rapeseed is boiled in water, filtered, concentrated or extracted, dried, ground into powder and tabletted, and taken 30 times, 3 times a day.
4) Almond egg paste: 65,438+02g of peach kernel, 65,438+02g of almond, 3g of Gardenia, 7 slices of Zanthoxylum bungeanum and 65,438+04 slices of glutinous rice, all of which are mashed, and 65,438+0 slices of chicken serum are added to make paste, which is applied to the heart three times before going to bed.
5) Chrysanthemum tea: divide chrysanthemum, Sophora japonica and green tea equally, and replace tea with water.
6) Chrysanthemum seedling porridge: 30 grams of chamomile seedlings, finely cut, cooked with japonica rice, and added with appropriate amount of rock sugar.
7) Chrysanthemum hawthorn cinnamon soup: raw hawthorn 15g, chrysanthemum 10g, cassia seed 15g, decocted in water into 300ml, and taken twice.
8) Porphyra seaweed soup: Porphyra and kelp are appropriate, and soup is taken.
9) Sunflower chicken soup: 2-3 sunflower dishes, hen 1 hen, washed fur and internal organs and stewed.