Patient: My mother is 48 years old, recently often dizzy, went to the hospital to check said it is high blood pressure, now every day to take antihypertensive drugs, but the blood pressure is not seen to drop. I heard that bitter tea has a blood pressure-lowering effect, but she bought it and said it was useless to drink it and did not drink it. I would like to ask the doctor if there are any effective ways to lower blood pressure, such as Chinese and Western medicine or food therapy or something? Nantong City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Gao wants
The choice of antihypertensive drugs is different for different people with high blood pressure, otherwise, the antihypertensive effect is not satisfactory, and more serious side effects may occur. For example, relatively young hypertensive patients with high work pressure, increased sympathetic excitability, blood pressure is mainly elevated diastolic blood pressure, should use drugs that have an inhibitory effect on sympathetic nerves, such as beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor antagonists; hypertensive patients with coronary heart disease, should consider antihypertensive drugs that are beneficial to coronary heart disease, such as beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or long-acting calcium antagonists; for hypertension in diabetic patients, angiotensin receptor antagonists or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors should be considered first, based on the results of clinical trials. One antihypertensive drug is limited in its ability to lower blood pressure, at which point a combination of drugs is required. Similarly, there is a certain rule for the combination of antihypertensive drugs. Generally, the combination of drugs that activate sympathetic nerves (calcium antagonists, diuretics) and drugs that inhibit sympathetic nerves (beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor antagonists) is used, otherwise, it will not effectively increase the antihypertensive effect, but increase the side effects of the drugs. Chinese medicine treatment is to use the method of dialectical treatment, that is, according to the patient’s symptom group, identified as “evidence”, in the treatment, different from person to person. Bitter tea has a certain antihypertensive effect, but not suitable for all people, other Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicine is also the same. To date, there is no cure for hypertension, generally speaking, long-term or even lifelong medication is required.