Dialectical treatment of hypertension in Chinese medicine

The causes of hypertension are heredity, overweight, smoking and alcohol consumption, high salt diet and mental stress. In Chinese medicine, hypertension is caused by long-term mental stress or anger and worry that leads to liver depression and fire, fat, sweet and thick taste or excessive alcohol consumption that leads to phlegm and internal obstruction, excessive exertion or old age that leads to liver and kidney yin deficiency, which causes the patient’s liver and kidney yin and yang to be out of balance and the evil in the clear orifice to develop hypertension. For the type of hyperactivity of liver and yang, we can use Tianma and Hooked Vine Drink and reduce; for the type of deficiency of liver and kidney yin, we should use Dajingyuan Decoction and reduce; for the type of internal obstruction of phlegm and dampness, we should use Hanxia and Baijiao Tianma Tang and reduce; for the type of internal stagnation of silt and blood, we should use Blood Activating and Tongkou Tang and reduce; for the type of deficiency of yin and yang, we should use Jin Gui Qi Wan and reduce.