Winter is the season of high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Especially some time ago, the whole country suddenly cooled down, and many patients reported that their blood pressure was a little unstable, and they were afraid that the medicine they took could not be controlled, and they were a little panicked.
Today, I will talk to you about this problem.
Some people with big hearts always feel that their blood pressure is high, and it's nothing.
However, you must know that hypertension is closely related to many cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral hemorrhage, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction and other patients, who basically have perennial hypertension.
In particular, after the cold weather is cold, it is easier for the cold to invade the viscera meridians.
Think about it, when you feel cold, don't you like to curl up?
Then, after suffering from the cold evil that invades your body, the blood vessels in your body are also easy to "curl up", that is, the blood vessels will constrict, and under the influence of this contraction force, your blood pressure will rise.
This is the same as if you block half of the water pipe with your hand, the water pressure will increase, and the impact will be stronger.
In addition, the cold may also increase the probability of blood deposition and clotting, so that the blood flow rate is easy to decrease, and under the influence of this, the supply of qi and blood in front is not enough, and the heart must exert force to urge the blood to move forward quicklyThis "force" is actually blood pressure.
A patient before me, who had high blood pressure and dizziness for more than ten years, came to me to regulate his blood pressure, and the effect of the adjustment was quite good, and his blood pressure was already well controlled.
But in the past month, because of the sudden coldness of the weather, his blood pressure has become a little high, often around 150 90mmHg.
I talked to him carefully about the feeling of daily life, because his blood pressure has been unstable recently, he is often a little dizzy, and he is more afraid of cold than his family, especially in the waist and knees, he feels cold and painful when the wind blows, which is a typical state of cold and dampness and yang deficiency.
Therefore, when adjusting the prescription for him, more attention was paid to the direction of replenishing yang qi and driving away cold and dampness.
Prescription: Aconite, Cinnamon Root, Cinnamon Branch, Ginger, Banxia, Atractylodes, Gastrodia, Poria Cocos, Xianling Spleen, Tangerine Peel, Chuanxiong, Licorice.
This recipe uses some warm and yang-tonifying medicines, which dredge blood vessels, dispel cold and evil spirits by replenishing a heat energy, and then remove phlegm and turbidity by the way, clean up some precipitated vascular garbage, and make his blood vessels more smooth.
After such a set, there is no resistance to the flow of qi and blood, and his blood pressure can naturally be lowered, and his blood pressure is stable at about 140 75mmHg after this conditioning, and his dizziness, waist and knee cold pain and other problems have improved.
And in addition to differentiating syndromes like this patient**, in this season when blood pressure is prone to instability, I also hope that everyone can stay away from some habits that are not conducive to vascular health.
The first thing is to avoid foods that are high in salt.
Winter vegetables are not so abundant, and some families will pickle some cabbage and the like, which is also easier to store, but the intake of high sodium salt is easy to constrict blood vessels, causing blood pressure to rise.
Therefore, I hope that everyone can use less pickled vegetables or processed high-salt foods, especially friends with a history of high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia, and it is better to have a more light diet.
Secondly, diets like high sugar and high fat should also be avoided as much as possible, such as sugar and fat, which are the key factors affecting the health of modern people's blood vessels.
Although they both enrich our taste buds and give us a richer diet, the body is limited in what it can digest and metabolize.
And those that can't be digested will accumulate in the body, which will not only make you obese on the outside, but also harm the health of blood vessels inside. Therefore, such as sweet and greasy diets, fried foods, animal offal, etc., should be avoided for more use.
Finally, one more point is to stay away from tobacco and alcohol.
When it comes to tobacco and alcohol, everyone knows that it is not good for health, and we all know that it hurts the liver and lungs, but there are not many people who take it to heart, and they feel that liver cancer and lung cancer are far away.
But what is closer to you is actually the damage to the blood vessels caused by tobacco and alcohol, because the components in it will directly cause damage to the blood vessel wall, which will greatly increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular injury, so I also hope that you can quit smoking and drinking as soon as possible.
In general, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the situation of unstable blood pressure when the weather cools down is not serious, as long as you find the right direction and adjust it well, the quality of life will be improved a lot.
In addition, in order to live a better life, it is also indispensable to adjust your daily living habits, stay away from tobacco and alcohol, reduce high-salt, high-sugar, and high-fat diets, and live a healthy life more than anything else.