Use celery as a antihypertensive drug.
This man is in his fifties and has had high blood pressure for several years. He always thinks that his blood pressure is not particularly high, and his systolic blood pressure rarely exceeds 160mmHg. I always firmly believe that medicine is toxic in three ways, and medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic, and I don't want to take antihypertensive drugs anyway.
I heard that celery can lower blood pressure, so I insisted on eating celery and drinking a glass of celery juice every day. Blood pressure didn't drop much, and it didn't rise much. Basically, it remained at around 150mmHg, and he was quite satisfied.
One day, I played cards with my friends all afternoon. I don't know why I quarreled with others. I stood up after rubbing, only to find that my right foot was weak and I almost fell. I rushed to the hospital and checked my blood pressure at 220/ 1 10mmHg.
Asked if he had high blood pressure before, he always saidno. Usually, his blood pressure is very good and stable.
Because I have been cheated by patients many times, every time I encounter this situation, I will ask one more question, so what is your blood pressure at ordinary times?
He said 150 or so.
I asked again: Did you take antihypertensive drugs?
He said: no, antihypertensive drugs have side effects. Besides, I don't need to take antihypertensive drugs. I drink celery juice every day. You see, my blood pressure is controlled quite stably. Today, I guess I'm excited and anxious, so my blood pressure will rise so high.
For people who have stumbled once and are unwilling to wake up, they have inherent prejudice and persistence, and usually the advice of doctors is difficult to work.
It may be a good thing to be persistent in other things, but prejudice and persistence in illness can only be said to be a joke on your body.
Some juices may do more harm than good.
He kept asking: can't celery reduce blood pressure? Why can't I eat celery every day? Is this statement wrong?
Undeniably, animal experiments show that celery does have the effect of lowering blood pressure. Mainly because celery itself contains a flavonoid called "apigenin", which has the functions of dilating blood vessels and lowering blood pressure.
Although apigenin can lower blood pressure, after all, its effect is very weak and cannot replace drugs. Moreover, at present, the theory that celery can reduce blood pressure is limited to animal experiments, and there is no clear experimental basis to support it in people.
Most people think that celery plays a role in lowering blood pressure, which is related to its rich cellulose besides active ingredients such as apigenin. I won't go into details about the function of dietary fiber here. What I want to say is that when you squeeze celery into celery juice, almost all the dietary fiber in it is discarded, which greatly reduces the nutritional value of celery.
In fact, in addition to celery, many vegetables and fruits contain similar substances, such as those mentioned in the last article "It's not easy to say I love you". Therefore, in order to achieve this health care effect, there is absolutely no need to stare at celery every day.
Speaking of celery juice, you can't help mentioning fruit juice by the way. Fruit juice often contains more sugar and less dietary fiber than fresh fruit.
For example, for a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice, you may need 3-4 oranges to squeeze out a cup of juice, but usually you only eat 2 oranges when you eat fruit, which invisibly increases the intake of sugar and calories, and also loses many valuable dietary fibers in the fruit, which is not suitable for children and people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
You might say, there are many juicers with broken walls or juicers that don't need residue filtering, but they all contain dietary fiber. Even so, many active ingredients and vitamins in fruits are unstable. If the cell wall is broken, it will be easily oxidized, thus greatly reducing the nutritional value.
One of the most obvious examples is that the juice squeezed from apples is yellow-brown, and there is no original color of apples at all, because the polyphenols in them are oxidized.
Of course, it is ok to drink a little juice occasionally, but you must never use juice instead of fruit every day.
Especially for babies, drinking juice is not good for the development of teeth and body.
This is not what I said. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently published the Guide for Children to Quote Juice, which mentioned that for babies under one year old, juice does more harm than good. /kloc-children under the age of 0/8 should also limit the intake of juice.
Dear mothers. If you are interested, you can check it yourself.
Besides believing in food preparation, what else do you believe?
It is a special case to use celery to lower blood pressure.
There are still many people who believe in traditional Chinese medicine to reduce blood pressure. For example, some people like to eat compound apocynum venetum tablets and Zhenju antihypertensive tablets.
I don't want to argue whether Chinese medicine has no or less side effects at all. I just want to say that some of them are so-called Chinese medicine preparations, but in fact, western medicine ingredients are added to them more or less. Because without western medicine, it may be difficult to achieve therapeutic effect. If you don't believe me, you can take a look at the instructions of the above two drugs.
Don't you know him? Then I'll tell you if there are hydrochlorothiazide, promethazine and clonidine in the medicine. These are all western medicines, promethazine and clonidine are antihypertensive drugs with relatively large side effects, which are basically not used in specialized hospitals now. Do you still dare to say that they are traditional Chinese medicine with few side effects?
I can only say that they are not as good as you think except that they are cheap.
For those so-called pure Chinese medicine preparations or tea bags on the market that claim to be magical in curative effect and safe without side effects, you should have your own judgment.
Don't always make fun of your body, after all, life doesn't have several opportunities for trial and error.