Win over the High Blood Pressure

Win over the High Blood Pressure

Find the ways to win over your high blood pressure. First of all you must understand what is high blood pressure or hypertension. In the US and India, as per some reports on the internet it is said that from every 3 adult 1 is suffering from hypertension. Hypertension is more dangerous as it has no symptoms or symptoms like dizziness, nose bleeding, stroke or heart attack if blood pressure reaches very high. The hypertension will also leads to destroy the other organs and it affects kidney the most, as the kidney has narrow capillaries. In case of blood flows from these capillaries with greater force it can damage them and kidney failure can happen. It is also called a lifestyle disease even the children are not spare from hypertension.

What is blood pressure?

Blood pressure is the force of blood against the walls of arteries or blood pressure is the force that moves blood through our circulatory system. Blood volume, blood vessels, vessel space, force of heart beat and thickness of the blood that affects blood pressure. The circulation of the blood with force is important as it carries oxygen and nutrients to the organs and hormones like insulin and antibodies etc. Blood also bring back the toxins to kidney to clear it. The blood is forced to the arteries by heart. Your blood pressure is highest when your heart beats, pumping the blood. This is called systolic pressure. When your heart is at rest, between beats, your blood pressure falls. This is called diastolic pressure.

What is hypertension or High Blood Pressure?

One of my friends who was coming from the office on a bike was feeling dizziness and after driving 28 kms and just 500 meters away from his house he felt a spinning of head and heart beat raced and felt very thirsty. He controlled his bike and somehow was able to reach to the doctor’s clinic very close to his house and when doctor his blood pressure the reading came as 190/110 and doctor gave him some injection and put him on the medication and asked him to do some life style changes to control the high blood pressure.

How to check your blood pressure?

Generally high blood pressure has no symptoms, so it can be accidentally detected when someone gets ill and the blood pressure is measured in clinic or hospital during his visit. So it advisable that one should go for a regular checkup for blood pressure to any health services provider. Your health services provider will check the blood pressure by an instrument called sphygmomanometer. The sphygmomanometer has a handcuff with squeezable balloon, and an aneroid meter, one more thing is required that is stethoscope. A specialist can take blood pressure through sphygmomanometer. There are various digital machines are available in the market through which you can easily take blood pressure at home. But before using the digital machine you should get it calibrate from your doctor. 

Different Stage Readings

Category	Systolic	Diastolic
Normal	less than 120	less than 80
Elevate	120-129	Less than 80
High Blood Pressure Stage 1	130-139	80-89
High Blood Pressure Stage 2	140 or Higher	90 or Higher
Emergency Situation	180 or Higher	120 or Higher

Treatment for High Blood Pressure

Life style change is the most important thing which will be advised by your doctor, it is the best way   to begin your fight with high blood pressure. Follow the below point strictly

•  Switch healthy diet – Adding lots of fruits and vegetables
• To stay physically active – Yoga or 40 minutes physical activities like cycling, brisk walking etc.
•  Maintaining a healthy weight – Check for your BMI (Body Mass Index)
•  Avoiding excessive alcohol consumption -
• Quit smoking – The most dangerous and it should be stopped immediately
•  Managing stress – Reduce stress by Yoga and meditation
• Eating less salt – Avoid raw table salt, and no junk food as they have lot of salt in it.
• Limiting caffeine – Caffeine can spike the blood pressure quickly
•  Monitoring blood pressure at home
• Regular Medication as advised by doctor

Healthy Diet

Healthy diet does not mean the expensive diet, you only have to monitor what you are eating. You should choose which has potassium, magnesium and fiber. Juice of the fruits is not helpful as it does not have fiber. Also nuts like almond, walnut, seeds low fat dairy products, Non Tropical Vegetable oils etc. You can choose to have chyawan prash on daily basis, it has got Amla (Indian Gooseberry) and various other ayurvedic medicine which help to improve the immunity and strength and help in controlling the blood pressure.

Yoga Exercise to control High blood pressure

There are various yogic research have proved a five set of yoga kriya which can control the high blood pressure and can reduce the quantity of medicines also.

 1.       Bhastrika Pranayam

How to do Bhastrika Pranayam?

• Sit in Padmasana (Lotus Pose).
• Take a deep breath.
• Slowly release the breath.

     2. Anulom Vilom (Naadi Shuddhi Kriya)

• Sit in Sukhasana or Padmasana with your hands resting sideways on the knees.
• Begin from the left then close the right nostril with your right thumb and inhale slowly. Air should be filled in lungs only and not in stomach, after that exhale slowly from the right nostril.
• It is essential to focus on your breath and practice the breathing slowly.
•  Repeat 60 times or for 5 minutes. 

3.       Bhramri Pranayam

• Sit in a quiet and well ventilated corner and close your eyes.
• Place your index fingers on your ears right at the cartilage.
• Breathe in and while breathing out press the cartilage with your fingers.
• Breathe in again and out and continue the same pattern for around 6-7 times. 

4.       Udgith Pranayam

• First of all, sit in Padmasana or Sukhasana.
• Now through nasal, take a deep long breath and take a breath slowly.
• Now chant ॐ while exhaling slowly.
• While doing this pranayama it is very important to focus on breathing.
• When exhaling with Omkar chanting, then try to stretch its time from fifteen to twenty seconds, according to your power.

One important aasan is Vajrasan, Vajrasan can be done after five minutes of lunch or dinner, due to this aasan all the blood flows towards stomach and helps in digestion.

Medicine for High Blood Pressure

There are various allopathic medicines available, only your doctor can decide which the best medicine is for you. One should not take any medicine for high blood pressure on its own. It is not possible that any of the medicine will have the same effect for every person. So let your doctor decides.

There is a wonderful medicine introduced by Patanjali is Divya Mukta Vati which actually works, it has Sarpgandha (Indian Snakeroot). Indian snakeroot contains chemicals such as reserpine that decrease heart rate and blood pressure. These chemicals can also cause drowsiness.