Is high blood pressure really eating too much meat? Can eating too salty and flavorful food cause high blood pressure?
After being diagnosed, many patients with hypertension will start to change their eating habits - only vegetarian. They also tried to use this diet instead of taking antihypertensive drugs.
But it backfired. After a period of self "diet conditioning", their blood pressure is not only useless, but even higher than before! Why? Didn't the doctor tell us to eat a "low salt and low fat" diet?
In fact, this approach is wrong. So what is the correct eating habits of hypertension? Don't worry! According to his many years of medical experience, teacher fan Yingzhi has sorted out a set of diet Treasure Book of hypertension, which is full of dry goods!
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Is diet important for regulating hypertension?
Hypertension is actually a systemic and chronic vascular disease characterized by the continuous increase of arterial blood pressure. The important risk factors of hypertension in China are high sodium and low potassium diet, overweight, obesity, drinking, mental stress and so on.
There is no name of hypertension in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hypertension is often related to emotional disorder, eating disorder, internal injury deficiency and so on. Combined with the clinical manifestations of hypertension, it should belong to the category of vertigo, headache, stroke and so on. The causes of disease mostly involve liver, spleen and kidney, and are closely related to wind, phlegm and deficiency.
Therefore, both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine theories believe that diet has a great relationship with hypertension. Excessive salt intake can increase blood pressure. Satiety and sweets are easy to make people fat, and obesity is easy to increase blood pressure.
However, there is a common problem in the treatment of patients with hypertension, that is, they only pay attention to drug treatment, but ignore diet conditioning, so that it often leads to treatment failure or the effect of treatment is not ideal, and the blood pressure rises again and again.
Therefore, a scientific diet is extremely important for the treatment of hypertension.
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Hypertension diet follows four rules
Control the amount of salt and balance sodium and potassium
The World Health Organization recommends that normal people should take 6G of salt every day. Patients with hypertension, especially those with cardiac and renal insufficiency, should reduce it, usually 3 ~ 4G a day. However, low sodium diet is not the less salt, the better. The key is to maintain the balance of sodium and potassium in the human body.
At ordinary times, attention should be paid to reducing the amount of cooking salt and soy sauce and other condiments containing sodium salt; Reduce eating or not eating foods with high sodium salt content, such as pickles, convenient fast food, all kinds of fried goods, etc.
Light diet, thickness matching
If you eat too much fat and sweet, it is easy to help Yang generate heat, or produce phlegm and turn fire, so as to aggravate the condition. Therefore, the diet of patients with hypertension should be mainly light, and should be matched with coarse and fine food (cereals) to ensure the adequate supply of various nutrients.
Cereals are not only rich in protein, sugar, minerals, magnesium and calcium, but also contain a lot of vitamins, such as vitamin E and K, which are very beneficial to patients with hypertension.
Therefore, the main food should eat more coarse grains and miscellaneous grains, such as corn, brown rice, oats and millet, and less refined rice noodles. This can supplement the chromium required by the body, prevent atherosclerosis and reduce the accumulation of cadmium, which is of great benefit to the prevention and treatment of hypertension.
Eat frugally to prevent obesity
The Yellow Emperor's Canon of internal medicine puts forward that "there is a festival in eating and drinking... When you are 100 years old, you will go away", and "eating and drinking will double, and your intestines and stomach will be hurt". Patients with hypertension must eat regularly, three meals a day should be regular and quantitative, and their diet should be moderate. They should not be too full or hungry.
Too much satiety will lead to difficulty in transporting the spleen, food can not be decomposed and transported in time, stagnant in the middle epigastric cavity and get sick, and it is also easy to make phlegm dampness and obesity, which leads to increased blood pressure. On the contrary, too little diet and skipping breakfast during three meals will lead to malnutrition. If the intake is insufficient, it will also directly or indirectly have an adverse impact on blood pressure. Therefore, the best state is "three hungry and seven full".
Try to quit smoking and don't drink
Hypertension patients should quit smoking. Research shows that nicotine (nicotine) contained in tobacco leaves will excite the central nerve and sympathetic nerve, accelerate the heart rate, and also promote the adrenal gland to release a large amount of catecholamines, constrict the arterioles, leading to an increase in blood pressure.
It is best to quit drinking, or the daily alcohol intake is less than 20g. The study found that the blood pressure level of drinkers is significantly higher than that of non drinkers, especially the systolic blood pressure. Drinking 30ml a day can increase the systolic blood pressure by 4MMHG.
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How does traditional Chinese medicine diet treat hypertension?
Traditional Chinese medicine dietotherapy for hypertension is generally based on dialectical feeding, what syndrome type corresponds to, what kind of food or dietotherapy is recommended.
Look at what teacher fan Yingzhi said below.
According to the law of development and evolution of hypertension, diet was given according to syndrome differentiation
According to the development and evolution of hypertension, traditional Chinese medicine diet can be divided into early stage, middle stage and late stage of hypertension.
|Early stage|
Most of them are rising liver fire and hyperactivity of liver yang. At this time, Qinggan snow soup can be used for dietotherapy.
Materials: Gastrodia elata 15g, Uncaria 15g, fresh celery 100g, jellyfish 30g, water chestnut 15g
Method: soak the jellyfish in warm water, wash and chop it up; Wash Gastrodia elata, uncaria, fresh celery, fresh water chestnuts and peel them. Put the chopped jellyfish and water chestnuts together into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, season with a little oil and salt, and cook over low heat for 1 hour.
|Intermediate stage|
Most of them are deficiency of liver and kidney yin and hyperactivity of liver yang. At this time, dancai Zhengan Ziyin decoction can be used for treatment, so as to give play to its effect of nourishing liver and kidney yin, nourishing yin to make Yang and reducing blood pressure.
Ingredients: light vegetables 500g, Achyranthes bidentata 15g, Gastrodia elata 15g, water chestnuts 15g, fungus 50g, and some ginger can be added
Practice: wash the light vegetables, Achyranthes bidentata, Gastrodia elata, water chestnut, fungus and ginger, put them in the pot, slice the ginger, add appropriate amount of water, season with a little oil and salt, and cook over low heat for about 1 hour.
|Late stage|
Most patients with hypertension are caused by Yin loss and Yang, resulting in deficiency of yin and Yang. At this time, therapeutic prescriptions such as Huangqi Shuiyu decoction can be selected for treatment.
Materials: 30g Astragalus membranaceus, 20g Lycium barbarum fruit, 1 water fish (about 500g)
Method: wrap Astragalus membranaceus with gauze, remove fish scales and internal organs, wash and cut into pieces. Add proper amount of water to stew, remove Astragalus residue, season with a little oil and salt, and take it several times.
Note: the above stages are general rules. Not all patients with hypertension must evolve according to this rule. Therefore, if patients with hypertension need a scientific diet, it is recommended that the face-to-face doctor treat them according to the syndrome differentiation of four diagnosis and reference.
Substitute tea
Alternative tea drinking is a simple and effective traditional Chinese medicine treatment method, which selects one or several traditional Chinese medicine on the basis of syndrome differentiation, decocts the traditional Chinese medicine or brews it with boiling water, and drinks and takes it as frequently as daily tea drinking.
|Fang Yi|
Medicinal materials: Red Peony 30g, white peony 30g.
Drinking method: decoct instead of tea, let it cool naturally to a suitable temperature.
|Fang er|
Medicinal material: Panax Notoginseng Powder 10g.
Drinking method: brew with boiling water and let it cool naturally to a suitable temperature
Note: Although this kind of tea substitute drink has a certain antihypertensive effect, it can not replace drug treatment. It is recommended to select medicinal materials after syndrome differentiation by face-to-face doctors, and the dosage of antihypertensive drugs can be reduced according to blood pressure.
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