High blood pressure

Natural alternative treatment, healing and cure for high blood pressure

The information in this page about high blood pressure, natural medicine and treatment is NOT a sales pitch for any drug, supplement, herbal formula or even an alleged magic potion from an exotic faraway land.

Food is always best medicine

When kidneys begin to deteriorate blood pressure in the major arteries begins to rise. That is why high blood pressure is often associated with elevated uric acid in the blood, which is a sign of kidneys exhaustion. It is primarily caused by excess consumption of hard animal protein such as red meat and hard cheeses. Sometimes high blood pressure is caused by long standing infections anywhere in the body that overburden the kidneys resulting in high blood pressure. Some people are more disposed to developing high blood pressure because there is a hereditary factor involved. But this hereditary can be negated by eating the right foods.

Traditional treatment for high blood pressure is usually pressure lowering chemical drugs that have to be taken daily for life. This is not a cure, but blood pressure management. Available High Blood Pressure treatments can be classified as medicine of the first and second degree among the seven levels of medicine. The current High Blood Pressure medications are expensive, especially because they have to be taken for life. They do  not offer a cure and have harmful side effects especially to the heart and lungs. It is interesting that most, if not all, doctors advise their high blood pressure patient to reduce their intake of salt but they say nothing about avoiding other foods that contribute more to raising blood pressure.

This is an extreme YANG illness. The kidneys, heart and blood vessels are too tight resulting in blood not flowing comfortably in the arteries. You can read more about the relation between High blood pressure and YIN and YANG in the seven laws of the universe.

Most doctors recommend that their high blood pressure patients cut down on their salt intake, without recommending that they cut back on their meat and fat consumption. It is true that These foods are all YANG. They all cause an increase in high blood pressure. But the increase in high blood pressure due to consuming salt is only temporary, because the kidneys are designed to easily filter out excess salt from the blood. However, excess meat (protein) and hard fats are very difficult to disperse from the kidneys. All high blood pressure patients find that when they follow the recommended diet, they can start taking in moderate amounts of salt without any adverse effects on their blood pressure.

Food is your best medicine. High blood pressure patients usually improve very quickly on the prescribed diet. They often get substantial drop in their blood pressure within 1-2  months. In cases of elevated uric acid, the patient also experiences a substantial drop in uric acid. Consequently, their doctors usually recommend reducing and sometimes stopping their blood pressure medication altogether. They get lowered blood pressure and lowered medical bills. It is important to stay away from the foods mentioned above because they raise blood pressure. Avoiding these foods gives the kidneys much needed relief (The kidneys are very sensitive to tightness YANG that develops from consuming too much meat and too much salt). This is in addition to consuming on a regular basis the foods of the YIN type that actually lower blood pressure better than any drug ever invented.

Most people have come to believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. To cure high blood pressure you do not have to eat Japanese foods. You have to first understand the principles of natural balance explained in macrobiotics in order to understand what eating and living habits has caused your blood pressure to rise. Then, macrobiotic principles will help you determine what foods you will have to eat in order to lower your blood pressure. Read If macrobiotics means eating locally grown foods, why are we eating Japanese foods?

It is true that food is best medicine for high blood pressure. But some foods lower blood pressure and some, even some vegetables, can actually raise blood pressure. The food pyramid is only a general guideline and does not provide any specific information in the natural treatment of high blood pressure.

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet plan for high blood pressure, there is no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some vitamin and mineral supplements can have adverse side effects on a high blood pressure patient when taken randomly or in large doses. However, if they are desired, only natural food-based supplements should be selected and taken in moderate amounts. And beware of alleged miracle cures in far away lands.

Are you skeptical of this treatment and cure for high blood pressure? This is natural, but please read: back to the roots.

This is not a sales pitch for an expensive herbal concoction or an exotic supplement

Principles explained above are the laws of nature, and illness is simply the cumulative result of violating these laws. Hippocrates said: Thy food shall be thy remedy. From the Chinese book of internal medicine: What can not be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. Food is your best medicine if the illness is High blood pressure or almost anything else.

If you decide to treat High blood pressure with the right diet, you can order a consultation with us from the top of this page. We can help by providing an appropriate diet plan, and you would not be alone traveling this road! Read about what many famous western doctors said about Food as Best Medicine. And keep in mind that we offer seminars worldwide about nutrition, the art of health and macrobiotics.

You can find more answers and more about High blood pressure and other illnesses and food as medicine in Frequently Asked Questions.

In addition to changing your eating habits, take some time to relax, meditate or re-charge the batteries, and read what others have already discovered about this wondrous world around us. It is also helpful when you are following a diet to read about the healing crisis. If you want to read about health, alternative and natural medicine, take a look at the list of suggested readings.