Fruits and Vegetables that Lower Blood Pressure

10 years ago

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Vegetables that Lower Blood Pressure

Celery, carrots, tomatoes, asparagus, peas, chickpeas, Fenugreek, horseradish, Cruciferous Vegetables(Broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, cabbage and Brussels sprouts), Leafy Green (Leafy green vegetables like spinach, lettuce, kale, mustard greens, Swiss chard, Chinese cabbage, etc.)

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sweetquietplace
10 years ago
For an upset stomach, my Colombian DIL throws a raw potato in the blender with some water, grinds it up, strains it and drinks the liquid. Works like a charm!

Last year I made Nocino with my green, immature black walnuts. That's also good for tummy problems.
seysonn
10 years ago
Some fruits and vegetables can HELP to reduce blood pressure. But the best way is prevention ; knowing what causes it and avoid it. Overwieght, stress ,salt intake ...

There are a few herbs that I know can help:

Stevia, Marjoram, AND ally the herbs with tonic effect. But One should not fool her/himself. At certain condition one has to take medication.
JMO
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There's some pretty good evidence supporting garlic as an anti-hypertensive* (in addition to being tasty). "More recently, garlic has been shown to have BP (blood pressure)-lowering properties. A meta-analysis including 20 clinical trials suggested garlic to be superior to placebo in lowering BP in hypertensive patients on average by 8-9 mmHg in SBP and 6-7 mmHg in DBP, P That last part is interesting, suggesting that some people with high blood pressure will respond especially well to garlic supplementation, others not at all. People who are on anti-bloot clot medication (i.e. warfarin) are warned against taking more than about 1 clove of garlic a day, because garlic has anti-platelet activity and could increase bleeding risks. *the fact that there have been that many clinical trials of garlic (in addition to all the other research done on it) is another blow to the claim that "no one researches medicinal effects of herbs because they can't be patented".
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Jim writes: The other option is to use an approved recipe and substitute the vinegar, or a portion of it, with citric acid (which has no flavor). Didn't know could do that. Have any recipes? John, The rule is as follows: 2 Tbsp of bottled 5% vinegar is equivalent to, 1 Tbsp of bottled commercial lemon or lime juice, and that is equivalent to, 1/4 tsp food grade citric acid. So, if you are putting up quarts of tomatoes, and acidification is recommended, you can use any one of the following: 4 Tbsp of 5% vinegar, or 2 Tbsp of bottled lemon or lime juice, or 1/2 tsp citric acid. Citric acid is readily available, cheap, and in France it is called "sour salt". If you have a child that likes Gummy Bears or other such similar sweet/sour product, citric acid is what creates the "pucker response" in those candies. Hope this helps. I use citric acid where I don't want the flavor of the other things. If I want tomatoes for soup, I would never put either vinegar or lemon juice in the tomatoes. I would rather use the citric acid and then flavor the soup to my own sense of proper flavoring - rather than trying to cover the flavor of vinegar or lime juice. Jim in So Calif
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Hi Harriet--ah, I'm glad you remember. I would definitely suggest getting seen soon, although it's not an emergency situation (or even urgent care). But I would make clear at the earliest possible opportunity that you want meds to get your bp down to 120/80. Every day that it's high does permanent damage to your organs :(. If you exercise and get it lower, and you find you can go off the meds, that's great. But IMO (and of course this isn't official medical advice, just my experience and what I've read, so do more research--I'm just a lonely data point : )), getting it down as early as possible is what's important. The meds may very well knock you for a loop until you adjust to them, too. The docs said no driving for a month but I was back behind the wheel of a car, no problems, in a week and a few days. terri, that was another odd thing - my cholesterol is beautiful. I'm not the highest in HDL, but my LDL was *quite low* (blanking on the #s) at the time of the heart attack. As much as I believe in taking bp meds (within reason), I was *staunchly* against statins, and got out of it only by digging my heels into the ground and saying I'd take red yeast rice. I took that for a while and then stopped. My LDL isn't bad enough for me to worry about. There's also debate over what numbers are o.k. and what are worrisome wrt cholesterol anyway. But this little lonely data point would encourage you to take action on the bp as soon as you can (non-rush).
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I am 73 years old. Some 30 years ago, my BP started going up, and I was advised to reduce salt. I did it and monitored my BP every day, and watched it go down gradually but steadily. and it stayed down for a few years. Then it started climbing again, and I started taking anti-hypertensive medications. I now take two different such medications to keep my BP within normal range, and I watch my diet. Eliminating salt from your diet is very difficult because so many things contain salt. It's not just avoiding the salt shaker and avoiding salt in the food you cook. Most people do not know it, but milk, bread and most cold cuts and cheeses contain salt. Meats and fishes also contain some salt. The only things that contain no salt are potatoes, fruit and veggies, rice, grains, beans and unsalted nuts. You can accustom your taste buds to "like" unsalted food and, after a few weeks, you will find even lightly salted things too salty and wonder how you ever ate them. Depending on your personal situation, you might make life very complicated for the people you live with. If you decide to embark on this low sodium effort, make sure your BP elevation is not so high as to pose a serious risk, because you could do yourself harm if you do not get your BP under control promptly. Another thing to consider is that some people with high BP have a form of the disease that is particularly salt-sensitive. They respond especially well to reduced sodium intake. If your illness is not of that type, then you will probably eventually find that sodium restriction does not afford you the degree of BP control that you need, and you will have to start taking medication. Of you can try calcium supplements, but they can be constipating. The cheapest and for most people safest starting antihypertensive medication is hydochlorthiazide (HCZT), which is available as a generic and costs less than $20 per month. It's a very safe drug, and you will probably not experience any unpleasant side effects. Blood pressure control is one of the few areas where the drug industry has succeeded very well. The available treatments are highly effective and extremely safe. You will hardly know you are taking any medication, and the "silent killer" can be kept safely at bay.
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Natures_Nature
10 years ago
Taking a supplement or isolate is not going to truly solve your problem. What you eat, drink, breath, and put on your skin is where your problem(disease) truly resides. Simply put, you live unhealthy, you are going to be unhealthy. You have to change your entire lifestyle in order to truly see change.

Here is a link that might be useful: True Healing
sunnibel7 Md 7
10 years ago
Considering that that healthy lifestyle change tends to involve eating more vegetables, I'm not sure what the point is of attaching that message to these threads is. As I see it, since you can't wave a magic wand and *poof* suddenly a person is living a whole new healthy lifestyle, discussing vegetables that can help a person's individual health concerns is a valid and interesting route towards a healthier lifestyle. And if a person wants to do more gardening as a result, then even more health may ensue. But those comments sound like "don't bother"...?

Re: medications. Medications do not "cure" any of the conditions currently discussed here. Like the herbs and vegetables under discussion they help mitigate the symptoms while doing nothing about the underlying cause. Unlike vegetables and many herbs (I'm speaking of them in their whole, fresh form, not as concentrated supplements), modern medications tend to have certain unpleasant side-effects that can cause a marked decrease in quality (and sometimes quantity) of life. Pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer from your blood sugar-lowering medication, anyone? Or maybe just struggling through every day, unable to get anything done because of overwhelming tiredness despite getting 10, 11, 12 hours of sleep only to find that the cause of your inablity to function is actually a result of the blood-pressure-lowering medication your Dr just prescribed? (That little gem is listed innocuously as "fatigue".)

There is plenty of good, current, scientifically validated litereature out there for anyone who wishes to read more about the subject. The book I mentioned by Mr. Duke in the other thread really is a good starting point. He used to work for the USDA. Dr. Andrew Weil also writes accessibly on the subject.

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