Chinese Medicine Gem

Herbs that lower blood pressure has long been used in Chinese medicine formulas traditionally. These proven herbs that lower blood pressure include Han Fang Ji (Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae), Gou Teng (Ramulus cum uncis Uncariae) and Lai Fu Zi (Semen Raphani Sativi) etc.
Nowadays high blood pressure is a common cardiovascular disease, the serious complications of [...]

A lot people believe that there is some kind of relationship between anger and high blood pressure. Is that true anger causes high blood pressure? The answer to this question, to some extent, is yes. At least it can be justified from the perspective of Chinese medicine.
In my last post of Types of High Blood [...]

Although the disease of high blood pressure is not documented in any traditional Chinese medicine books, other relevant symptoms, which mentioned in Chinese ancient literature such as “Head wind”, “Headache”, “Vertigo,” “Liver wind”, “Liver-yang” and so on, to some extent are the modern equivalent of high blood pressure.
Symptoms of high blood pressure
From the point of [...]

High blood pressure remedies with Traditional Chinese medicine vary from person to person. In other words, even the patients suffer from the same disease, such as high blood pressure, the remedies could be totally different.
From the point of view of TCM, the key is that we have to differentiate the patients’ syndrome first, and then [...]

Why young age suffer from hypertension?
Recently, I got to know a new friend, who just suffers from hypertension. He is very young, only 20 years old. It is also because he is so young that he feels very irritable and unable to calm down.
And I had been told that he was from the Northeast [...]

Western medicine defines high blood pressure according to the number measured, which has nothing to do with syndrome differentiation. The high blood pressure treatment by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), however, is based on comprehensive analysis of data gained by four diagnostic methods, including inspection, listening and smelling, inquiry and palpation and pulse taking. What’s more, [...]

Western medicine invented blood pressure meter to coin a newly found disease. They tried everything they could and made up excuses to sell their high blood pressure medicine. This technology, which should benefit health of human being, turns out to be the tool not to allow us a healthy body any more.
High blood pressure is [...]

From the perspective of Western medicine, two key elements result in blood pressure. One is that the heart contraction pumps appropriate blood to arteries, which is the source of blood pressure. The second is the resistance of the veins. Blood can not stay in veins without those resistance, thus pressure can not produce either. From [...]

Modern medicine considers that high blood pressure is one kind of disease. It induces much critical illness such as stroke, cerebrovascular disease and renal failure. Thus high blood pressure is called an invisible killer.
Let us look back to see how high blood pressure emerged?
The blood-pressure meter was invented as the development of modern industry. [...]