Nimodipine is a short-acting antihypertensive drug, not a long-acting antihypertensive drug, it acts for a shorter period of time, the number of times per day than the long-acting drug, but the main role of this drug is to relieve the spasm of the cerebral blood vessels, can improve the symptoms of dizziness, headache. Long-acting antihypertensive drugs are taken with better compliance, patients are not easy to miss the dose, for example, the often-used sartans, such as timosartan, cloxartan, valsartan, irbesartan, as well as enalapril, benazepril, fosinopril and so on, as well as nifedipine controlled-release tablets, amlodipine benzenesulfonate tablets and so on, the above these medications are the long-lasting antihypertensive drugs. If the patient is accompanied by vasospasm, headache, you can choose nimodipine, which is more suitable, and can also improve the symptoms, if the simple high blood pressure, it is recommended to use long-acting antihypertensive drugs, which are just mentioned, because it maintains a longer period of time, the blood pressure will be more stable.