Many people are concerned about whether it is better to take herbal medicine for high blood pressure? Or is it better to take western medicine?

In the eyes of the vast majority of people, Chinese medicine has no side effects, Chinese medicine can get rid of the root cause; while Western medicine has a lot of side effects and treats the symptoms but not the root cause.

We are not going to discuss such a big topic as Chinese medicine and western medicine today, and we have no right to do so, let's talk about when a person has high blood pressure, whether to choose Chinese medicine or western medicine.

I. Chinese medicines are categorized into tonics and proprietary Chinese medicines

In the current guidelines for hypertension, there is not much mention of herbal medicines. Some people have talked about the many proprietary antihypertensive medicines available on the market, and some people take tonics to treat high blood pressure.

1、Chinese medicine antihypertensive drugs

Although there are pCms antihypertensive drugs on the market, but the general cardiovascular and cerebrovascular doctors, will not directly recommend patients preferred pCms antihypertensive, because on the one hand, the guidelines do not recommend, not recommended because there is no big data to support, that is, lack of experience, evidence is not sufficient. On the other hand, in the hospital can always encounter their own buy antihypertensive drugs to eat, but the antihypertensive effect is not good, and ultimately have to recommend the guidelines recommended diphenhydramine, sartan, prilosec, diuretic, Lore, composite preparations and so on to lower blood pressure.

2、Tongue medicine to lower blood pressure

First of all if the tonics don't cure your blood pressure and are just for controlling it, then I don't know if you'll be able to take it if you have to decoct it every day and drink it for a long time.

Furthermore, if someone says that drinking tonics can cure high blood pressure, we don't otherwise extremely individual people who drink tonics have normalized their high blood pressure. But there are some misunderstandings, because for mild hypertension, even if you do not eat any traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, high blood pressure can return to normal, such as a person with new-onset grade 1 hypertension, start a healthy diet, adhere to the exercise, weight control, quit smoking and drinking, do not stay up late and so on after a healthy life, his blood pressure may return to normal, which part of the no need to eat Western medicine and no need to take traditional Chinese medicine, high blood pressure can be cured.

So there is no guideline recommendation for pCms, no big data; tonics do not cure more hypertensive patients. Some people have said drinking Chinese medicine has fewer side effects, so they drink Chinese medicine.

II. Side effects of western antihypertensive drugs

Our old ancestors said that medicine is three times poisonous, I guess when I said this, I did not know that there is a Western medicine; then you say that Chinese medicine has no side effects is where to start? Modern pharmacological research, most drugs, whether western or Chinese medicine, in a certain range of adverse reactions or side effects, just the incidence of the problem, and can not say that Chinese medicine has no side effects.

How do you think about the side effects of Western antihypertensive drugs?

First of all, any drug has some adverse reactions or side effects, but since they are adverse reactions or side effects, they only happen to a few people. There is no need to magnify these side effects, if you only focus on the side effects of the drug, after reading the instructions, you do not dare to take any medicine.

Drug side effects just need to be well monitored, if it does not happen to you, then you do not need to worry about it, just feel free to control your blood pressure. We do not eat antihypertensive drugs,, blood pressure control is not ideal, then bring more harm. Eating antihypertensive drugs, we need to understand some common side effects, such as diphenhydramine class will lead to blushing, panic, swelling of the lower limbs, gingival hyperplasia, etc.; Puli will lead to a dry cough, laryngeal edema, blood potassium abnormalities, etc.; diuretics will lead to a decrease in blood potassium, uric acid, etc.; sartan will lead to abnormal renal function, blood potassium, etc.; Lorre will cause a slowing of the heart rate, induced bronchial asthma and so on.

However, these common side effects only occur in a very small number of people, timely detection of side effects, timely change of medication can be. There is no need to over-exaggerate the side effects of antihypertensive drugs, that antihypertensive drugs hurt the liver and kidneys, etc. No antihypertensive drugs directly hurt the liver and kidneys, on the contrary, do not eat antihypertensive drugs, elevated blood pressure, will lead to damage to the heart, brain and kidneys, blood vessels and so on.

Therefore, regardless of Western medicine Chinese medicine, there are potential adverse reactions or side effects, but they are rare and can be avoided by early detection and treatment.

After reading the above analysis, then if you are hypertensive, would you choose herbal medicine or western medicine?

Hypertension is a lifestyle-related chronic disease with a genetic background, and it is also a chronic disease with a high prevalence rate, a high disability rate and a heavy burden of disease in China. Statistics show that the prevalence of hypertension among adults aged 18 and above is 25.2%. Although the awareness, treatment and control rates of hypertension in China have improved in recent years, they are still at a low level.

In addition to lifestyle intervention, medication is an important means of treatment for hypertension. So is it better to choose Chinese medicine or Western medicine for the medication of hypertension?

Currently, regarding the drug treatment of hypertension China has issued two editions of the Guidelines for the Rational Use of Hypertension in 2015 and 2017. The antihypertensive drugs recommended by the guideline mainly include diuretics, calcium antagonists (CCB, diphenhydramine class), angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI, prilosec class), angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB, sartan class), β-blockers (Lol class), and some other compound preparations, such as compound antihypertensive tablets, compound rosmarin tablets, and Zhenju antihypertensive tablets.

Among these compound antihypertensive drugs, some of them are approved as traditional Chinese medicines, such as Compound Robitussin Tablets and Zhenju Antihypertensive Tablets. However, most of them contain some western antihypertensive drugs such as hydrochlorothiazide (diuretics), dihydralazine (vasodilator), colistin (central antihypertensive drug) and so on, which are the main ingredients for lowering blood pressure. The Chinese medicines in it, such as pearl layer powder, wild chrysanthemum, rooibos, etc., are mainly used to help improve the symptoms of high blood pressure (headache, dizziness).

Of course, there are also some pure Chinese medicinal preparations, such as Niuhuang Antihypertensive Tablets, with 14 flavors of artificial Niuhuang, antelope horn, baicalin, pearl, cassia seed, chuanxiong, bingshi, white peony, tulip jin, ganzong, and water buffalo horn concentrated powder. It has the efficacy of clearing the heart, resolving phlegm, calming the heart and lowering blood pressure. It is used for hypertension caused by exuberant liver fire, dizziness, irritability and phlegm-fire congestion. These pure Chinese medicines are not recommended in the Guidelines for the Rational Use of Medicines in Hypertension.

To summarize, the current guidelines for the rational use of medications for hypertension recommend the treatment of drugs mainly 5 classes of antihypertensive drugs and some compounded preparations. The guidelines are based on some evidence-based formulation, which physicians need to follow in diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, hypertensive patients should also follow the guidelines when choosing antihypertensive drugs and should not trust others' experience to avoid delaying their condition.

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Hypertension is one of the common chronic diseases, "taking Chinese medicine or Western medicine" is often discussed, the combination of the two has produced the current problem. Support for taking Chinese medicine to lower blood pressure people think that high blood pressure as a chronic disease need to take medication for a long time, but the medicine is three times poisonous, Chinese medicine compared to Western drugs will have fewer side effects, so take Chinese medicine to increase pressure will be better. This argument sounds reasonable, but Dr. Elf suggests that the best choice for controlling high blood pressure is western medicine for the following reasons:

1. Hypertension itself is the basic concept of Western medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine does not have the concept of blood pressure. Western medicine has a whole set of ways to explain the mechanism of blood pressure increase, as well as antihypertensive drugs and strategies, while Chinese medicine can only indirectly explain hypertension through the concept of traditional Chinese medicine, from the perspective of controlling blood pressure Western medicine is more direct;

2. The purpose of controlling blood pressure is not just to lower it, but to prevent long-term complications after keeping control stable. The most common complications are coronary heart disease, hypertensive nephropathy, cerebrovascular disease, fundus disease and so on. Most of these diseases are named from the point of view of Western medicine, and a lot of research has been carried out on the prevention of complications for different kinds of Western medicines, while Chinese medicine lacks scientific evidence in these aspects;

3, western medicine antihypertensive drugs currently for the convenience of patients, many only need to take once a day, very convenient. Chinese medicine is divided into two kinds, one for the traditional soup, one for the proprietary Chinese medicine, the former is obviously not suitable for long-term use, and most of the latter in the middle of the Western medicine antihypertensive ingredients are added, so Chinese medicine is not easy for patients to take long-term adherence, but also not easy to achieve the effect of pure Western medicine.

Above Dr. Elf listed a few reasons for taking western medicine to control high blood pressure, and finally need to emphasize that lowering blood pressure with medication is only one way to treat high blood pressure, more important is the development of a healthy lifestyle and dietary habits, and have a professional doctor for guidance, timely adjustment of the treatment plan.

Is it better to take Chinese medicine or western medicine to lower blood pressure in hypertension? This is a question that many hypertensive patients have approached Dr. Zhang for advice. In fact, this question is really the only Chinese people in the world to face the problem, because only we have Chinese medicine. So, how to correctly and rationally face this problem? Dr. Zhang will give you a talk about this topic today.

In fact, the modern society about hypertension patients more and more, if you say down to how to treat Dr. Zhang certainly recommended that we formalize the treatment, especially some of the hypertension condition is relatively more serious patients, most of the need for 5 major classes of antihypertensive drugs to treat. And modern medicine in the 5 major classes of antihypertensive drugs can be said to be the people said Western medicine, which a Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicine are not. Therefore, if you put this question in the opening paragraph to a cardiologist, the reply in most cases is that the western medicine to lower blood pressure is reliable. In fact, it is no wonder that the 5 major categories of mainstream antihypertensive drugs are all western drugs.

However, does this mean that Chinese medicine has no use in lowering blood pressure? It should not be said so, because some authoritative hypertension prevention and treatment organizations in our country have done similar experiments. For example, in the last century, Shuguang Hospital affiliated with Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine once used Erxian Tang to treat more than 1,000 cases of hypertension, and the effect was reported to be quite good at that time. Anhui Medical College once used the combination of stinking wutong, danpi, and xiaku cao to treat hypertension, and the results were reported to be good at that time. Shanghai Second Medical University used six flavors of dihuang soup to treat renal hypertension in rat animal experiments, also received good results. However, the reality is that to date, China's hypertension guidelines do not recommend Chinese medicine for a certain type of hypertension treatment program, the major domestic well-known Chinese medicine hospitals face the most commonly used treatment program for hypertension are also 5 categories of antihypertensive drugs.

Therefore, when you face high blood pressure, the highest incidence of chronic diseases, must not be entangled, must be under the guidance of a professional doctor for professional treatment, especially the 5 major categories of antihypertensive drugs should be used when you use, do not hesitate, do not delay the best time for the treatment of the disease.

Hypertension as a western medical disease, in western medicine has a clear pathogenesis, pathological characteristics, laboratory methods, treatment principles, etc., there is a complete system, the use of western medicine also has a clear mechanism for lowering blood pressure. However, Chinese medicine, as a Chinese national treasure with a long history, naturally has its own rationale, only that Chinese medicine cannot be substantiated in many aspects, which makes it impossible for people to identify, and thus it appears to be a mixed bag of fish and dragons. Therefore, in terms of controlling high blood pressure, it is definitely necessary to choose Western medicines, as for Chinese medicine, it is necessary to look at the dialectical evidence.If it's a prescription, you should never look at it.。

Regardless of Chinese or Western medicine, hypertension is currently incurable and can only be controlled.

In western medicine, antihypertensive drugs are divided into a total of five categories: diuretics, beta-receptor antagonists, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, and angiotensin II receptor antagonists, and each antihypertensive drug has its own characteristics. The use of antihypertensive drugs usually starts with a small dose, and the dose is gradually increased according to the blood pressure control; priority is given to long-acting agents, which can effectively control the nighttime blood pressure and the morning peak blood pressure to achieve the purpose of smooth control of blood pressure, and prevent cardiovascular and cerebral vascular complications more effectively; combination of drugs and individualization, according to the patient's condition, the effectiveness of the drug, as well as the economic conditions, and the individual's will to choose the appropriate antihypertensive drugs.

Long-acting antihypertensive drugs are currently available for the convenience of patients, many of which need to be taken only once a day, which is very convenient. Chinese medicine is divided into two kinds, one for the traditional soup, a proprietary Chinese medicine, the former for the nine-to-five office workers is obviously not suitable for long-term use, and most of the latter is added in the middle of the Western drug antihypertensive ingredients, or hanging in the skin of the traditional Chinese medicine to sell Western medicine, so Chinese medicine is not easy to let the patient long-term adherence to take, and not easy to achieve the effect of the pure Western medicine.

There are also some folk remedies, in the end there is no use, there is no scientific research to prove, but there is one thing we need to understand, sustained high blood pressure will produce sustained damage to the body, and so on these remedies consumed three or five years to play a role in the time, may be the organism has been a complication. Therefore, it is not scary to be sick, but scary to be sick and uneducated!

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Hypertension easily affects the heart, brain, kidneys and other organs, and is an important etiologic factor and independent risk factor for the development of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, seriously jeopardizing human health.

In the process of identification and treatment of essential hypertension, scholars of Chinese medicine have summarized a number of single drugs and compound formulas with antihypertensive effects, including antidepressants, purgatives, antiemetics, wind-quenching and antispasmodic drugs, laxatives, food eliminators, and deficiency tonic drugs, and so on. Through evidence-based treatment and rational use of Chinese medicine to correct blood stasis, phlegm-dampness, qi and blood deficiency, etc., thus improving the cardiovascular and cerebral vascular system and lowering blood pressure at the same time. On the other hand, traditional Chinese medicine can significantly improve the clinical symptoms of hypertension, such as insomnia, dizziness, headache, dry mouth and bitter taste, constipation, and so on.

Used in the treatment of hypertension Chinese medicine classification: ① single formula and its chemical composition of antihypertensive: hook vine contains alkaloids with antihypertensive effect; Pueraria lobata total flavonoids, soybean glycosides and Pueraria lobata on hypertension caused by headache, dizziness, neck and back pain and tinnitus has an ameliorating effect; wild chrysanthemum contains lignocellulosic acid glycosides also have antihypertensive effect. ② Chinese herbal medicine compound antihypertensive: "tianma hookteng drink" (composition: tianma, hookteng, stone vitex, gardenia, scutellaria, Sichuan hyssop, eucommia, motherwort, mulberry, nightshade, Zhu Fu Shen), "two immortals soup" (composition: xianmao, xianlingshuen, bajiqitian, angelica sinensis, (composed of: Xianmao, Xianlingtian, Baqitian, Angelica sinensis, Huangbai, Zhimu) and other compound formulas have clinical literature to confirm their antihypertensive efficacy.

The classification of drugs in western medicine for treating hypertension includes calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, beta-blockers, diuretics and so on. Their antihypertensive effect is clear, the mechanism is clear, and the effect is fast. It is more suitable for long-term antihypertensive and stabilizing blood pressure. It is also a fast way to lower blood pressure in hypertensive emergencies. Failure to pay attention to contraindications, as well as drug dosage, may cause the occurrence of adverse reactions.

Therefore, generally speaking, emergency, serious illnesses choose western medicine, and can be taken for a long time to make the blood pressure up to standard; long-term oral western medicine, can be supplemented with Chinese medicine to regulate the body.

References:

WANG Xiaosha, CHEN Keji. Progress in the study of antihypertensive Chinese medicines[J]. Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 1994(2):123-126.

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As we all know, lowering blood pressure has always been the world of Western medicine, commonly used 5 types of antihypertensive drugs are basically Western medicine, some people even deny the role of Chinese herbs, or that Chinese herbal products if you can lower blood pressure is also added to the Western medicine ingredients. So, high blood pressure in the end is good to eat Western medicine or Chinese medicine?

Is it better to take herbal medicine or western medicine to lower blood pressure in hypertension?

At present, hypertension has become one of the most prevalent diseases, hypertension is often referred to as the "silent killer", hypertension on the heart of the harm is the brunt, first of all, the first is manifested in two aspects, first, high blood pressure is mainly damage to the heart of the coronary arteries, and gradually make the coronary arteries atherosclerosis and thus angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and other diseases; Secondly, due to long-term high blood pressure, it gradually increases the burden of the left ventricle, which gradually hypertrophies and expands and forms hypertensive heart disease. In addition, high blood pressure will also cause kidney damage, fundus lesions, resulting in elevated urea, kidney failure, blurred vision and even blindness.

Antihypertensive drugs are a class of drugs that can control blood pressure and are used in the treatment of hypertension, and exert antihypertensive effects mainly by affecting the sympathetic nervous system, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, and the endothelin system, which play an important role in the physiological regulation of blood pressure. Commonly used antihypertensive drugs are angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), angiotensin II receptor antagonists (ARBs), calcium channel blockers (CCBs), diuretics, and β-blockers. However, it is necessary to choose whether to use conventional medication, a combination of medications, or a single compounded antihypertensive drug according to the type of the particular population and comorbidities.

Chinese medicine's explanation of hypertension

Many advertisements claim that taking a few pairs of important can "completely cure" high blood pressure, many people will be skeptical, so the Chinese medicine for high blood pressure in the end reliable?

According to Chinese medicine, the pathological mechanism of hypertension is mainly due to the imbalance of yin and yang, qi and blood in the body caused by the dysfunction of the liver, kidney, heart and spleen. Imbalance of yin and yang in the liver and kidney is particularly common. In the treatment of hypertension, Chinese medicine mainly focuses on the etiology and pathology of hypertension, and helps patients to restore vital energy and regulate the functions of internal organs by "inducing the blood to flow downward" and "nourishing the kidneys and regulating the liver", so as to remove the root cause of hypertension. At present, commonly used Chinese medicines include Cerebral Li-Qing Pills, Wake-up Pills, An Gong Pills, Niu Huang Pills, etc. The main ingredients of these medicines include mother-of-pearl, rooibos leaf, scutellaria baicalensis, asparagus, rhizoma coptidis, artificial niu huang, and he shou wu. However, there is not enough medical research evidence on the antihypertensive effect of such drugs and their effectiveness in preventing and treating heart, brain and kidney complications.

On the contrary, the major classes of antihypertensive drugs routinely recommended at present, such as diuretics, calcium antagonists, β-blockers, angiotensin receptor antagonists, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and so on, have been verified by a number of long-term, large-scale medical trials and clinical experience in use, and doctors know their efficacy and adverse effects very well, so the antihypertensive effect and safety are more reliable.

How to properly understand the herbal medicine to reduce blood pressure?

How can hypertensive patients better control their blood pressure? First of all, we should fully listen to the doctor's advice, whether it is traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine, should strictly follow the doctor's prescription; Secondly, we should understand the principle of various antihypertensive drugs to lower blood pressure, continuous and stable medication, and should not stop taking medication without authorization, in fact, no matter whether it is traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine for the treatment of high blood pressure, the evaluation criteria are the same, which is whether it is able to effectively lower the blood pressure and maintain the stability of the blood pressure, so as to reduce the long-term complications, and at the same time, do not cause severe Adverse effects.

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Hypertension is good to take western medicine to reduce blood pressure. But no matter Chinese medicine or western medicine although can reduce blood pressure, but can not be completely cured.

I came into contact with hypertensive patients, long-term rely on taking Western medicine to reduce blood pressure, most of them rely on taking Western medicine to reduce blood pressure, but can not stop taking the medicine, but once you stop taking the medicine, blood pressure will rise, have been worried about the fear. For example, an eighty-year-old Mr. Hu, more than twenty years of hypertension, took more than twenty years of antihypertensive drugs, have not been cured, has not dared to stop taking medication. Last year, more than twenty years of gout again, to find a folk master, without any medicine on the cure. One day moncler outlet online, he found the master said: white home health center to the elderly association, to diabetic blood glucose measurement, I asked them to give me a measurement of blood pressure is still high, the master you can help me treat high blood pressure? As a result, the master did not use any medicine to give moncler outlet store Hu a course of treatment. After more than ten days, Mr. Hu rode his bicycle happily and parked it at the door, then took out a red envelope from his pants pocket and said, "Thank you, Master! I've measured my blood pressure everywhere and it's down to normal!

To give my answer first, the efficacy of Western medications to lower blood pressure is clear and safe.

This is a good question to ask, because at least the questioner can recognize that hypertension needs medication, and this is more than many people who do not take medication for hypertension, and it is important to know that there are really countless people who have heart attacks, cerebral infarcts, and other attacks due to untreated hypertension, and the root cause of all of this, is the lack of treatment for high blood pressure!

At present, hypertension has gradually become one of the most prevalent diseases in China, and it is also a chronic disease with a high disability rate and a heavy burden, which is why it is often called the "silent killer". Although the rate of treatment, awareness and control of hypertension has increased in recent years, it is still at a relatively low level.

We all know that in addition to lifestyle interventions, medication is still the more important means of treatment for hypertension. Speaking of which, everyone will surely ask whether it is better to choose western medicine or Chinese medicine for the drug treatment of hypertension. Then, how should we answer this question correctly and rationally? Next we talk around this topic!

Is it better to choose western or Chinese medicine for the medication of high blood pressure?

At present, the selection of drugs for hypertension in China is mainly based on the Guidelines for the Rational Use of Medications in Hypertension, which recommend antihypertensive drugs that can be divided into five categories: beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers (CCBs), angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), diuretics, and angiotensin Ⅱ receptor antagonists (ARBs), which have fast onset of action, clear mechanisms, and a clear effect of lowering blood pressure, and are very suitable for stabilizing blood pressure and long-term antihypertensive effects, and are also the first choice in times of hypertensive emergency. These antihypertensive drugs have a rapid onset, clear mechanism and definite antihypertensive effect, and are very suitable for stabilizing blood pressure and long-term antihypertensive, and are also the drugs of choice during hypertensive emergencies.

There are also compound preparations containing Chinese herbal ingredients such as Compound Robitussin Tablets and Zhen Ju Anti-hypertensive Tablets. However, the Chinese herbal ingredients in these compound preparations, such as rooibos and chrysanthemum, mainly improve the symptoms of hypertension such as headache and dizziness, whereas the western medicines contained in them, such as central antihypertensive drug colistin, vasodilator hydralazine, diuretic hydrochlorothiazide, and other Western medicines, are the main ingredients of antihypertensive medicines.

Of course, there are also some pure Chinese medicinal preparations such as Angong Biaojiao Pill, Wake-up Biaojiao Pill, Niuhuang Biaojiao Tablet, etc., which have the effects of lowering blood pressure and sedation, clearing the heart and resolving phlegm. They are commonly used for hypertension caused by dizziness, restlessness and liver fire. However, there is no relatively clear medical research evidence on the antihypertensive effects of these drugs and some of the effects of preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications.

concluding remarks

Regardless of whether it is traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine, in the treatment process of hypertension patients should strictly follow the doctor's prescription, continuous and stable medication, can not be stopped without authorization, to stay away from complications, and maximize the life safety of patients with high blood pressure.

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Western medicine is long-lasting, dependent, and requires long-term medication. Traditional Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years and is effective!