Roselle, expel powerful as Captopril Hypertension

Hibiscus flowers contain iron, vitamin A and C, calcium, and fiber

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 18:17 PM
BY data from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Association, nearly one-third of Americans suffer from hypertension. Hypertension occurs as a small thin tube contains too much water pressure. If continuous pressure, the hose will leak and the hose could be going broke.
The same thing can occur in blood vessels. The pressure is so often or intense would endanger other organs such as kidneys, heart, causing problems that arise stroke, blindness, and others.

To control hypertension, doctors usually recommend changes style life-sports, relaxation, avoid the intake of salt-added treatment. Furthermore, hibiscus tea may be an additional therapy.
It seems that often Hibiscus or we know as hibiscus can lower blood pressure. same as the blood pressure-lowering drugs, also yellow-red flowers are said to be able to open blood vessels wider, lowering blood viscosity and increase urine production so as to reduce the volume of blood.

Hibiscus tea made from Hibiscus sabdariffa flowers, sometimes called Roselle or Karkade. In a study published in Phytomedicine in 2004, the patient drinks a day 10 grams of dried flowers are brewed.
The results show that this tea can control the types of mild to moderate hypertension as effective as Captopril, a drug commonly used to treat hypertension and heart failure.

Hibiscus is also said to work faster. Journal of Ethnopharmacology reported that after 12 days, 31 patients who consume tea Hibiscus average blood pressure decreased by 11.2 percent to 10.7 percent of the systolic and diastolic pressure.
Normally, systolic pressure 120 and diastolic 80, meaning hibiscus tea can lower blood pressure to normal conditions for approximately less than two weeks. How do people with hypertension should use this herb?
Ellen Kamhi, Ph.D., RN and co-author of The Natural Medicine Chest (Evans & Co., 2000) recommends the use of this herb is to alert the doctor while you are using drugs or leave this drug, checking blood pressure every day.
"Ratio and the risks of using herbs in this course are safer and better than medicine. Therefore, try to use it, "said Ellen.