There are many ideas that people take for granted about the treatment of hypertension that are actually biased. Now to tell you, which understanding, practice is bad, is not conducive to blood pressure control. Myth 1: The faster and lower the blood pressure, the better Some people think that the blood pressure is high, the faster and lower the better. In fact, it is not, in general, antihypertensive treatment to master the principle of slow and steady, a few weeks to reach the target value can be. Blood pressure drops too fast, too low is prone to ischemic events, and may even be complicated by cerebral infarction and other serious consequences, especially in the elderly. Myth 2: Excessive attention to blood pressure values and mental tension Some patients are overly concerned about their blood pressure, blood pressure measurement too often, frequent adjustments to antihypertensive drugs, but affect the effect of antihypertensive. I do not know that the level of human blood pressure is not constant, there are peaks and valleys, and the value of blood pressure measured at different times is different. Climate, psychological and physical factors can also affect blood pressure. If your blood pressure rises once or twice, you should not consider it as unstable and increase or decrease the amount of medication frequently. Myth 3: Not paying attention to your blood pressure measured at home Some people think that blood pressure measured in the hospital is accurate and that blood pressure measured at home is not accurate. This idea is a bit one-sided. 1, the blood pressure measured in the hospital office, it is difficult to fully reflect the status of blood pressure; 2, their own measurement at home state relaxed, not affected by the hospital environment, more reflect the usual state of blood pressure value. Measuring your blood pressure several times at different times and in different states can give you a more comprehensive picture of your blood pressure. It is also more beneficial for doctors to adjust the treatment plan. Myth 4: Believe that a panacea can cure hypertension Once hypertension is diagnosed, most patients need to adhere to long-term lifelong non-drug and drug treatment. Many advertisements claim that a certain drug high-tech products, health food, or health care equipment can cure hypertension, without having to take antihypertensive drugs. These are pseudoscientific propaganda. At present, there is no drug, health product, or health instrument in the world that can cure hypertension. Any panacea that can cure hypertension as advertised by the media is false propaganda. I hope you can pay attention to the standard treatment of hypertension, blindly believe in false propaganda, will delay treatment, or even death. Some patients are influenced by the concept of “medicine is three kinds of poison”, and at the same time, they feel that western medicine has adverse effects and are not willing to take it for a long time. Some people advocate the antihypertensive efficacy of certain health food and health care devices, which can free hypertensive patients from the trouble of adverse reactions to Western medicine. In fact, most of these health foods, drinks and antihypertensive devices such as antihypertensive pillows, antihypertensive watches, etc., do not have a clear antihypertensive effect. Superstition in this antihypertensive method, but also easy to cause delays in treatment, and ultimately endanger health. Myth 6: excessive trust in natural medicine to lower blood pressure Some people believe that the adverse reactions of Western medicine, natural medicine non-toxic no adverse reactions. Certain people take advantage of the psychology of patients. The efficacy of certain natural medicines is promoted, and hypertension patients can get rid of the trouble of adverse reactions to Western medicines by taking certain natural medicines to lower blood pressure. In fact, natural drugs also have adverse reactions, and the real effect of most pure natural drugs to lower blood pressure has yet to be determined by research, do not blindly superstitious.