Hypertension Can Be Cured!!!

Part II—Symptoms and treatment plans (1)

Our last blog mentioned there are 5 categories of hypertension based on TCM. Today let’s look at the symptoms and corresponding treatment plans of the first two of them. 

• Kidney Deficiency Syndrome

The most common symptoms of kidney deficiency type are vertigo, deep thin pulse, and the lack of strength in the lower back and the knees. Because it is easy for kidney deficiency to transform into internal heat, symptoms such as hard dry stools and a yellow coating of the fur on the tongue often occur. In treatment, the tonifying of the kidney should be given primary focus and clearing of the body heat, secondary focus. 
Recommended Herbal Medicine: 
Pills of Six Ingredients with Rehmannia (Liu Wei Di Huang Wan)
Effect: Nourishing yin and supplementing kidney. It has a phenomenal effect on deficiency of the kidney-yin, dizziness and vertigo, tinnitus, deafness, emission, night sweat, hectic fever due to yin-deficiency and diabetes. 

• Liver Yang Hyperactivity Syndrome

Common symptoms of this type include headaches, vertigo, petulance (gas) and irritability. The treatment should give priority to pacifying the liver and clearing the body heat with Tianma Gouteng Decoction. 
Recommended Herbal Medicine: 
Gastrodia Elata (tianma) and Uncaria rhynchophylla (gouteng)
Effect:
Gastrodia Elata is used for calming the liver and treating headaches, dizziness, tetanus, and epilepsy. From a nutrition point of view, its root has been shown to exert novel pain relief and inflammatory-mediating activities. 
Uncaria rhynchophylla is most frequently used to relieve headache, clear heat and calm the liver wind. It has an anti-inflammatory effect and immune-modulatory effects against cancer. It is one of several dozen herbs being promoted these days as an effective treatment, even a potential cure, for cancer, AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, candida infection, arthritis, and other disorders for which western medicine is often unsatisfactory.  
Today, we have covered the first two categories of hypertension. Another two categories will be discussed in our next blog. 

​Vivian

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