How hypertension is perceived in Chinese medicine

In Chinese medicine, there is no such disease as hypertension, but it can be treated according to the evidence of vertigo. As early as in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, it is written that “all winds and dizziness belong to the liver” and “if the medulla oblongata is insufficient, the brain will turn to tinnitus, the shins will be sore and dizzy, and the eyes will have no vision”, and it is believed that this disease is related to the liver and kidney. The “Danxi Xinfa” also mentions the theory of no dizziness without phlegm and no dizziness without phlegm, and believes that phlegm and fire are another cause of dizziness. The following conditions are common: 1. Emotional and mental disorders: Long-term mental tension, irritation and worry can cause internal depression of liver qi, which turns into fire and depletes liver yin, so that yin does not converge yang and liver yang becomes hyperactive and disturbs the head and eyes, resulting in headache and dizziness. The relationship between liver and kidney is very close, that is, the liver and kidney are the same source, liver depression for a long time into fire, the same can burn the liver and kidney yin, and cause the kidney’s floating yang over, liver yang hyperactivity, and dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia and other symptoms, brain workers, white-collar workers, institutions and workers suffering from hypertension are mostly in this type; 2, diet disorder: over-eating fat, sweet and thick taste or excessive alcohol consumption, resulting in dampness and turbidity, dampness and turbidity for a long time The dampness and turbidity for a long time will turn into fire, heat, fire burning fluid into phlegm, phlegm and turbidity blocking the veins, there will be headaches, dizziness, hypertension. Middle-aged men with malfunctioning spleen and stomach, body obesity, hypertension mostly belong to this type; 3, internal injury and deficiency: excessive labor and injury and old age kidney deficiency of kidney yin deficiency, liver loss of nourishment, is also the cause of hypertension, middle-aged women elderly patients with hypertension mostly belong to this type.