Buckwheat porridge
Eating buckwheat porridge regularly has obvious effect on regulating blood pressure, and can reduce blood fat and blood sugar. This is because buckwheat is rich in rutin, which can maintain health, improve the toughness of blood vessels, and prevent cerebral hemorrhage caused by hypertension and bleeding caused by diabetes.
In addition, buckwheat, because of its sweet and cool taste, can clear away heat and remove dryness, cool blood and moisten intestines to relieve constipation, and is also a health care product for people with three highs. But buckwheat is not easy to digest, so it is not suitable to eat too much or too full at one time.
Cassia seed porridge
Because Chinese medicine believes that hyperactivity of liver yang will cause hypertension, and cassia seed has the effects of clearing liver, purging fire, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat, relaxing bowels and improving eyesight, so fried cassia seed porridge not only serves as tea, but also has the effect of lowering blood pressure.
Modern experiments with cassia seed in animals also found that it has obvious antihypertensive effect. In addition, cassia seed has antibacterial, immune enhancing and liver protecting effects.
Wild chrysanthemum porridge
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, Flos Chrysanthemi Indici has a similar antihypertensive effect to Semen Cassiae, and has a regulating effect on dizziness, tinnitus, red eyes and insomnia caused by hypertension with hyperactivity of liver yang.
Modern medical research has also confirmed that Flos Chrysanthemi Indici has the function of dilating blood vessels and lowering blood pressure. At the same time, Chrysanthemum indicum can resist germs and maintain the health of cardiovascular system.
Wild chrysanthemum porridge is cooked with fresh or dried chrysanthemum and japonica rice, or it can be boiled to remove residue before cooking porridge.
Celery porridge
People always advocate eating celery to lower blood pressure. Cooking porridge with celery, rice and millet not only has the function of regulating blood pressure, but also has the function of relieving cough and strengthening stomach.
The antihypertensive effect of celery comes from celery sedative, which can inhibit the tension of vascular smooth muscle and reduce the secretion of adrenaline, thus lowering and stabilizing blood pressure.
Therefore, the prescriptions in traditional Chinese medicine also have a certain effect on regulating blood pressure. These prescriptions can be used to lower blood pressure in the case of high blood pressure but no need to take medicine.