The health food introduced here should be said to be not only popular and easy to find, but also biased, which has a certain therapeutic effect on hypertension. Generally speaking, there are several kinds: ① leafy vegetables: celery, chrysanthemum, amaranth, yam, leek, day lily, water chestnut, spinach and so on; ② Rhizomes: Zizania latifolia, asparagus, radish, carrot, water chestnut and water chestnut; 3 melons and fruits: watermelon, wax gourd, tomato, hawthorn, lemon, banana, fruit, jujube, mulberry and eggplant; ④ Flowers, seeds and nuts: chrysanthemum, apocynum venetum, sesame, pea, broad bean, mung bean, corn, buckwheat, peanut, watermelon seed, walnut, sunflower seed and lotus plumule; ⑤ Aquatic products: kelp, laver, jellyfish, sea cucumber, green vegetables, laver, oyster, abalone, shrimp skin and whitebait; ⑥ Animals and others: milk (defatted), pig bile, bezoar, honey, vinegar, bean products, auricularia auricula, auricularia auricula and mushrooms. After soaking auricularia auricula in clear water for one night, put it in a drawer and steam it for 1 ~ 2 hours, then add a proper amount of rock sugar and take a bowl every day, which can cure hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Take 30-60g of Eleocharis tuberosa and 30g of jellyfish head (washed away with salt), and cook soup 2-3 times a day to treat hypertension. Patients with headache and head swelling caused by celery hypertension often eat fresh celery to relieve symptoms. Gourd Mash fresh gourds to get juice and mix it with honey twice a day, half a cup to one cup each time, which has the effect of lowering blood pressure. Mung bean Mung bean has a good dietotherapy effect on patients with hypertension, which not only helps to lower blood pressure and relieve symptoms, but also prevents blood lipid from rising frequently. 60g fresh tofu or dried flowers 15g can be decocted in water to treat hypertension and nosebleeds. Watermelon peel is 9 grams of watermelon Cui Yi and 9 grams of cassia seed, which can cure hypertension by decoction. Lotus plumule Lotus plumule has the functions of lowering blood pressure and strengthening heart, and is suitable for hypertension, palpitation and insomnia. Usage: take lotus plumule 1 ~ 2g and brew it with boiling water instead of tea. Hypotensive food 1 celery has the functions of protecting blood vessels, lowering blood pressure and calming. 2 Onions often eat onions and cook tofu, which has the synergistic effect of lowering blood pressure and reducing the accumulation of cholesterol in the blood vessel wall. Onion can reduce blood fat, prevent thrombosis and reduce high blood pressure. Tofu can lower cholesterol in human body. 5 vinegar People with hypertension and arteriosclerosis can reduce the blockage of blood circulation by drinking proper amount of vinegar every day. 6 kelp can prevent fat from depositing on the arterial wall, and often stew tofu with kelp, which is conducive to lowering blood pressure. 7 Raw peanuts (red clothes) are soaked in vinegar for 65,438+0 weeks, and brown sugar, garlic and soy sauce are added as appropriate, and taken in the morning and evening. After a week or two, high blood pressure can generally be reduced. There are 100 peanut shells. After washing, soaking in clean water instead of tea leaves is also very effective for hypertension. At the end of last year, the results of the Survey on Nutrition and Health Status of China Residents published by the State Council showed that chronic non-communicable diseases related to lifestyle increased sharply, and the national health status was worrying. Strengthening propaganda, advocating a healthy lifestyle and controlling the risk factors of related diseases are the first line of defense to curb chronic non-communicable diseases. Recently, the Department of Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health, the Information Office of the Ministry of Health and the News Development Center of the National Association of Journalists jointly launched the China Health Knowledge Dissemination Incentive Plan, in which the knowledge dissemination of hypertension prevention is the first item. Patients with hypertension should pay attention to principles in diet. Specific suitable and taboo foods are listed as follows: ■ Carbohydrates are suitable-rice, porridge, pasta, taro and soft beans. Should be taboo-sweet potatoes (food that produces abdominal qi), dried beans, and biscuits with strong flavor. ■ protein is suitable-foods with less fat (tender beef, lean pork, fish), eggs, milk and dairy products (whipped cream, yeast milk, ice cream, cheese), bean products (tofu, bean powder, shredded tofu, etc. ). Avoid-fatty foods (pork belly of cattle and pigs, ribs, fish without scales, etc. ) and processed meat products (sausages, etc. ) ■ Fat is suitable-vegetable oil, a little cream and salad dressing. Avoid-animal oil, lard, bacon, oily sardines. ■ Vitamins and minerals are suitable-vegetables (spinach, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, lily roots, pumpkins, eggplants, cucumbers, etc. ), fruits (apples, peaches, oranges, pears, grapes, watermelons, etc. ), algae and fungi. Avoid-hard fiber vegetables (bamboo shoots, corn) and pungent vegetables (spicy vegetables, such as shepherd's purse, onion and coriander). ■ Other foods are also suitable-light black tea and yeast milk drinks. Avoid-spices (pepper, mustard, curry powder), alcoholic drinks, coffee, strong tea, carbonated drinks, pickled foods (pickles, salted fish seeds, vegetables cooked in sugar soy sauce, pickles).