Many people are prone to low blood pressure in daily life, and the symptoms of hypotension are often detrimental to our health, so many people will try various methods to treat it. Hypotension, some people hope to improve the symptoms of hypotension through diet. So how to treat low blood pressure with food? What is the diet for low blood pressure?
1. Claypot Chicken with Astragalus and Licorice
Ingredients: 50 grams of astragalus, 15 grams of roasted licorice, and 1 black-bone chicken.
Method: First wash and slice the astragalus and licorice, remove the feathers and internal organs of the black-bone chicken, then put them into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat and remove the foam floating on the soup surface. , add a little salt and cooking wine, simmer over low heat until the chicken is cooked.
Usage: It is recommended to take it in 3 times, 2 doses per week. After the blood pressure rises, take 2 more doses to consolidate the effect.
Efficacy: Suitable for hypotension, accompanied by dizziness and fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, pale tongue, and weak pulse.
2. Qilian Ginseng Grass Porridge
Ingredients: 20 grams of wolfberry, 20 grams of lotus seeds, 20 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 12 grams of licorice, and 50 grams of japonica rice.
Method: Put Codonopsis pilosula and licorice into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, and fry twice. After boiling each time, fry over low heat for 20 minutes. Remove the residue and extract the juice; wash and fry the japonica rice, wolfberry seeds, and lotus seeds. Put the good concoction into the pot together, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook it into porridge.
Usage: 2 doses daily, morning and evening.
Efficacy: Replenishing qi, nourishing blood and boosting blood pressure.
3. Boost tea
Ingredients: 30 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 30 grams of Astragalus membranaceus, 30 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum, and 30 grams of Zhigancao.
Method: Grind the above raw materials into coarse powder, put it into a larger tea cup, brew it with boiling water, and drink it after 5 minutes.
Usage: 1 dose per day, drink instead of tea.
Efficacy: Suitable for hypotension, dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, pale tongue with thin white coating, weak pulse, etc.
4. Shenmai Drink
Ingredients: 6 grams of red ginseng, 20 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 10 grams of Schisandra chinensis, and 15 grams of rock sugar.
Method: Put the above 3 flavors into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, fry 3 times, remove the residue, take the concoction, add rock sugar, heat and dissolve.
Usage: 1 dose per day, drink as tea.
Efficacy: Used for yin deficiency type hypotension, accompanied by dizziness, dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath, five heart upsets and heat, red tongue, dry throat, and deep and thready pulse.
5. Guizhi licorice tea
Ingredients: 10 grams of cassia twig, 10 grams of cinnamon, and 10 grams of licorice.
Method: Grind the above raw materials into coarse powder, brew with boiling water, cover and drink after 5 minutes.
Usage: 1 dose per day, drink frequently instead of tea. After blood pressure rises, drink again for 1 week.
Efficacy: Suitable for Yang deficiency type hypotension. It is accompanied by dizziness, aversion to cold, cold limbs, fatigue and palpitations, pale tongue, white and moist tongue coating, and slow and weak pulse.
The above dietary prescriptions are recommended to be selected symptomatically under the guidance of a physician based on the individual's accompanying symptoms and physical constitution.
6. How to prevent hypotension
1. Increase the amount of salt appropriately and drink more water. More water entering the blood can increase blood volume, thereby increasing blood pressure.
2. Increase nutrition and eat tonics that help regulate blood pressure, such as ginseng, astragalus, Shengmai Yin, etc. In addition, moderate drinking of low-alcohol alcohol can also increase blood pressure.
3. Strengthen physical exercise and improve the body's regulatory function. Physical exercise is good for both high blood pressure and low blood pressure.
4. In order to prevent fainting, elderly patients with hypotension should pay attention not to move too fast or violently. When standing up from a lying or sitting position, they should move slowly. Patients with urinary hypotension should also note that it is best to hold on to something solid with their hands when urinating to prevent falling.