How to Lower Blood Pressure With Herbs & Vitamins

Your heart pumps blood every day. The pressure created by your heart when it pushes blood against the walls of your arteries is called blood pressure. When this pressure becomes elevated and remains elevated over time, it is medically termed hypertension (high blood pressure). Hypertension is caused by many factors, including an unhealthy diet and lifestyle. If left untreated, hypertension can cause a stroke or heart attack. By employing all the natural herbs and vitamins below you can effectively lower your blood pressure.

Things You'll Need

• Vitamin C tablets
• Garlic tablets
• Gingko biloba capsules
• Ginger capsules
• Hawthorne capsules

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Instructions

• 1

  Take one 500mg vitamin C tablet every day. This vitamin works as an antioxidant that helps protect your body's nitric oxide levels, which is vital for normal blood vessel function. It is a natural substance found in your body for maintaining health and normal blood pressure.

• 2

  Take garlic tablets. One 500mg tablet once daily is the recommended dosage. The active ingredient of garlic is allicin. It may help prevent heart disease by reducing cholesterol and lowering high blood pressure. You can also garnish your meals with garlic for added benefit.

• 3

  Consume gingko biloba in capsule form. This herb contains two powerful substances called flavonoids and terpenoids which are believed to treat high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases. One 500mg capsule taken once every day is the recommended dosage.

• 4

  Take 550mg ginger capsules daily and garnish into foods for maximum benefit. Ginger includes many potent compounds that can lower high blood pressure and high cholesterol. These compounds include shogaols, gingerol and volatile oils.

• 5

  Consume hawthorn in capsule form. The active ingredient of hawthorn is hawthorn flavonoid. It acts by reducing high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Take two 600mg capsules twice a day, preferably with food.

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  Consume gotu kola in capsule form. Triterpene is the active ingredient of this potent herb. It acts as a natural blood purifier that can help eliminate disease-causing microorganisms, lower cholesterol and blood pressure. The recommended dosage is two 500mg capsules twice a day preferably before eating breakfast.