How Chinese Medicine Treats Hypertension

Chinese medicine mainly treats hypertension through evidence-based treatment. That is to say, according to the degree of elevated blood pressure of hypertensive patients, as well as the patient’s usual clinical manifestations and signs, tongue and pulse for identification and selection of Chinese medicine soup treatment. TCM practitioners believe that hypertension is mainly caused by phlegm obstruction, blood stasis, liver and kidney yin deficiency, hyperactivity of liver yang, and fire disturbance, and often use Half-summer and White Atractylodes and Tianma Tang, Tianma and Hook Teng Drink, Gentian and Liver Tang, Blood Palace and Blood Stasis Tang, Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan, Er Chen Tang, and Rhizoma Ligusticum and Paeoniae Lactiflorae Tang, etc. for clinical treatment. For patients with hypertension, blood pressure often fluctuates with changes in mood, and TCM pays special attention to the regulation of patients’ mood. Control of blood pressure mainly relies on western medicine.