If you experience severe headaches, confusion, fatigue, tightening in the chest, heavy breathing, vision problem, and irregular heart rhythm on a regular basis it is very likely that you have hypertension or high blood pressure. However, in order to determine whether you actually have high blood pressure or not, you will have to take a measurement of blood pressure for 24 hours, and the average pressure will tell you whether you have high blood pressure, low blood pressure, or your pressure is normal.
What is Hypertension, or High Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is measured in two numbers, one, the pressure formed when the heart beats (systolic, or upper number), two, the pressure formed between the two beats (diastolic, or lower number). Here is a brief guide on what actually your blood pressure means.
Normal Blood Pressure: If your systolic pressure (upper number) is less than 120 and diastolic pressure (lower number) is less than 80;
Risk of High Blood Pressure: If your systolic pressure is 120-129 and diastolic pressure is less than 80;
High Blood Pressure: If your systolic pressure is 130-139 and diastolic pressure is less than 80-89;
Severe High Blood Pressure: If your systolic pressure is higher than 140 and diastolic pressure is higher than 90; and
Critical Case: If your systolic pressure is over 180 and diastolic pressure is higher than 120. In this case, you might even see blood in the urine.
In order to be diagnosed with high blood pressure, your systolic readings for consecutive days should be higher than 140 on average and your diastolic reading should be above 90 on average. However, you should remember one important thing. The normal blood pressure of 120/80 is for adults and teens, however, for older people, the normal pressure reading will be different. Let’s say a person is 50 years of age and when you add 90 it will be 140. If the systolic measurement for a person of 50 years is 140, it will be considered normal pressure. In case, the person is 60, and when you add 90, it will be 150 and this is still normal pressure for a person of 60 years. Figure 90 is an index to find out the normal blood person for old people.
Things You Can Do When You Have High Blood Pressure
You measured your pressure for consecutive days and it measures above 140/90; or let’s say, the average pressure for 24 hours is above 140/90. This means you have high blood pressure. So, what do you do now?
Medical science defines hypertension as a chronic disease that can be controlled with medication and dietary and lifestyle modification but cannot be cured. Thus, when you are diagnosed with hypertension, your doctor will immediately prescribe you drugs and you will have to take these pills lifelong.
So, is there no option other than taking medicines for life long to control your high blood pressure?
Well, actually Ayurveda and Yoga have the answer to permanently cure hypertension. You can try Ayurvedic medication whether you are already under medication for hypertension or have not yet started medication. You can see visible results in less than 4 weeks. Your high blood pressure will be completely cured. Even if you are under medication, you can try these Ayurvedic remedies and Yoga exercises, and just in 30 days, your doctor might reduce your drug dose.
How to Cure Hypertension Just in 30 Days
Modern medicine does not have a solution to cure hypertension, you can only control your high blood pressure with drugs. However, Alternative medicines like Ayurveda, Naturopathy, and Yoga have a perfect solution for Hypertension. Here is a breakdown of the treatment of hypertension in 30 days.
Dietary Modification
Stop eating red meat, fatty foods, and too much salt;
Stop smoking and drinking;
Include foods with dietary fiber
Lifestyle Changes
Control your stress and anxiety
Don’t stay awake late at night
Walk briskly for at least 60 minutes every day
Medicinal foods
Eat two cloves of garlic with a glass of water every morning
Make tea from guava leaves and drink it every morning
Make a mixture by adding one tablespoon of honey with one tablespoon of ginger juice and lime juice, take this mixture twice a day, every day.
Routine Diet
When you follow the aforementioned routine, you will surely cure your high blood pressure, however, in order to stop hypertension from coming back, you will also have to follow a routine diet. You will have to eat more alkalizing food and limit the consumption of acidic foods. In other words, you will have to include fruits and vegetables in your menu, avoid eating fried foods, and avoid sugar and salt. Include sprouted beans in your regular diet.
Naturopathy Treatment of Hypertension
Hot Leg Bath
Feel a bucket with hot water and dip your legs up to your knees. Wrap yourself with a blanket. Make sure the temperature of the water is acceptable. Drink a glass of water and place a wet towel on your head before you take a hot leg bath. This will improve your blood circulation.
Cold compress
Wet a towel and wrap it over your legs. Remove the towel after 3-4 hours. You can also warm your chest instead of your legs.
Spinal Bath
Wet a towel in cold water and spread it along the spine. You can also fill a tub with water and lie in the tub for 5 minutes.
Ayurvedic Treatment of Hypertension
Ayurveda has a lot of herbal formulas for controlling and curing hypertension. Ayurveda also suggests whole-body detoxification for controlling high blood pressure. Ayurveda suggests Panchakarma for controlling hypertension. Panchakarma is a whole-body detox system that primarily involves 5 steps. You can then follow detox methods to control high blood pressure.
Enema: Detoxification of the large intestine
Abhyangam: Head massage with herbal oils
Shirodhara: Pouring medicated oil on your head
Yoga Treatment of Hypertension
Pranayama
Yoga recommends Pranayama for curing hypertension. There are various Pranayama methods but the most effective for controlling high blood pressure is Anulom-Vilom. Anulom-Vilom is a breathing technique where you inhale a deep-long breath from one nostril and exhale from another nostril. Perform Anulom-Vilom Pranayama for at least 20 minutes every day.