The elderly at home have high blood pressure and take various medicines every day. Today, I will help the elderly at home find some ways to cook and eat, which is helpful for lowering blood pressure and can often cook and eat for the elderly at home.

1, corn must be boiled water.

30g of corn stigma, 30g of banana peel and 9g of gardenia. Decocting the raw materials in water, cooling, and taking.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and diuresis, reducing swelling and lowering blood pressure. Can be used for treating nephritis edema, hypertension, diabetes, etc.

2, hawthorn boiled water

Hawthorn, cassia seed each 15g, lotus leaf 8g. Wash the materials, wrap them in gauze, add water to the pot, bring them to a boil with high fire, and simmer for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: It can dilate blood vessels and reduce blood pressure and blood lipid. At the same time, it can also help to lose weight, which is suitable for friends with obesity and hypertension.

3, millet jujube porridge

Wash the millet, boil the water in the pot and then add the millet, so it is not easy to paste the pot. In addition, put the spoon in the pot when cooking, so that the juice will not overflow. After the porridge is boiled, add red dates and cook until soft and rotten.

Efficacy: Jujube is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P, which is very helpful for improving capillaries, maintaining the elasticity of blood vessel walls and protecting blood vessels. Regular consumption of millet and jujube porridge has the effect of protecting blood vessels.

4, purslane boiled water

For purslane, children from rural areas should be no strangers. It is also thriving in our fields, especially in crops. Horseshoe, which is a headache for farmers, is actually a very good Chinese herbal medicine. It can not only be eaten directly, but also be used for boiling water to drink, and has good medicinal value.

Portulaca oleracea is rich in potassium salt, which has the function of lowering blood pressure, and even potassium ions in it can be directly used to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. Drinking the boiled water of Portulaca oleracea regularly can protect the elasticity of blood vessels and reduce the chances of hypertension and stroke.

5, parsley root boiled water

Take fresh coriander 10g, add kudzu root 10g, decoct in water for 50ml, once in the morning and once in the evening, and take it for half a month, which is helpful to relieve hypertension.