Chinese medicine can treat hypertension, but in clinical practice, different treatment principles and formulas should be adopted according to different types of diagnosis. The type with a predilection for hyperactivity of liver and yang will manifest as dizziness and tinnitus, head and eyes swelling and pain, irritability, insomnia and dreaminess. In favor of phlegm-dampness obstruction type, it will manifest as dizziness, heavy head, rotating vision, chest tightness, nausea, vomiting of phlegm and saliva, treatment should be to resolve phlegm and dispel dampness, strengthen the spleen and harmonize the stomach, using Han Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang with addition and subtraction. The treatment is to remove blood stasis and create new blood, activate the blood and open the orifices. Qi and blood deficiency type may manifest as dizziness, which is aggravated by exertion, fatigue and sweating, laziness, lack of hair color, palpitations and sleeplessness, abdominal distension and lack of food, the treatment is to tonify Qi and blood and nourish the heart and spleen, treated with Gui Shen Tang plus reduction. The treatment is to nourish the liver and kidneys and to increase the marrow, and can be treated with Zuo Gui Wan or Right Gui Wan with reduction.