Hypertension cannot be cured and its treatment mainly focuses on control. It is advisable to approach it in a gentle manner, and diet is a good starting point. There are many delicious foods in our daily life that can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol. Let's take a look at some tasty and pressure-reducing foods.
1. Stir-fried Onion
Ingredients: 120g onion, cooking oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar (all in appropriate amounts).
Method: Peel and wash the onion, then cut it into shreds. Heat the pan with high heat, add cooking oil, and stir-fry the onion shreds. Add salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar for seasoning, and stir-fry evenly.
Usage: Serve as a side dish.
Benefits: It helps lower blood lipids and prevent and treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and gastric ulcers, among others.
2. Stir-fried Garlic Sprouts with Tofu
Ingredients: 100g garlic sprouts, 2 pieces of tofu, refined vegetable oil, salt, peppercorn water, and minced ginger (all in appropriate amounts).
Method: Wash and cut the garlic sprouts into 2cm long sections. Heat the wok, add oil and heat it up, add minced ginger, and stir-fry the tofu until it breaks into small pieces. Add salt, peppercorn water, and garlic sprouts, and stir-fry until almost cooked.
Usage: Serve as a side dish, as desired.
Benefits: It helps invigorate the Qi and harmonize the middle Jiao, detoxify, and relieve stagnation. It is suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, and arteriosclerosis.
3. Stewed Bitter Melon with Tofu
Ingredients: 200g fresh bitter melon, 2 pieces of tender tofu (about 200g), chopped green onion, minced ginger, salt, and monosodium glutamate (all in appropriate amounts).
Method: Wash the bitter melon, remove the seeds and pith, and cut it into thin slices. Blanch the bitter melon slices in boiling water, then remove and set aside. Rinse the tender tofu with water, cut it into small 1.5cm square pieces, and fry them briefly in hot oil. Add an appropriate amount of clear soup, bitter melon slices, chopped green onion, and minced ginger. Simmer over medium heat for 10 minutes, then add salt and monosodium glutamate, and mix well.
Usage: Serve as a side dish, as desired.
Benefits: It helps clear heat and relieve restlessness, replenish calcium, and lower blood pressure. It is suitable for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and osteoporosis.
4. Steamed Eggplant
Ingredients: 2 long eggplants, a little cooking oil and salt.
Method: Wash the eggplants and cut them open, put them in a bowl, add a little oil and salt, and steam them over boiling water until cooked.
Usage: Serve as a side dish.
Benefits: It helps clear heat, reduce swelling, and relieve pain. It is suitable for patients with inflamed and swollen internal hemorrhoids, internal hemorrhoids with bleeding, hypertension, and hemorrhoidal constipation.
5. Fish-flavored Eggplant
Ingredients: 300g fresh tender purple eggplant, 50g lean pork, refined vegetable oil, minced garlic, doubanjiang (broad bean chili paste), shredded ginger, chopped green onion, cooking wine, water starch, and sesame oil (all in appropriate amounts).
Method: Wash the fresh tender purple eggplant, remove the stem, and cut it into finger-sized strips. Wash the lean pork and cut it into thin slices. Heat a wok, add vegetable oil, and heat it to 70% hot. Stir-fry the pork slices, then add minced garlic and doubanjiang and stir-fry until the meat turns red. Add the eggplant strips and continue stir-frying until the skin wrinkles. Add shredded ginger, chopped green onion, and cooking wine, and cook for a while. Thicken the sauce with water starch and drizzle with sesame oil.
Usage: Serve as a side dish, as desired.
Benefits: It helps soothe the middle Jiao, activate blood circulation, reduce swelling, lower blood pressure, and lower cholesterol. It is suitable for patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, and hyperlipidemia.
6. Steamed Carp with Gastrodia
Ingredients: 1 carp (about 500g), 25g gastrodia, ginger, green onion, and salt (all in appropriate amounts).
Method: Peel and wash the ginger and green onion, and cut them into shreds. Remove the scales and internal organs from the carp and wash it. Stuff the carp with gastrodia, ginger, green onion, and an appropriate amount of salt. Steam the carp over medium heat for 15 minutes.
Usage: Serve as a main dish. Eat 50g of fish meat each time, twice a day.
Benefits: It helps soothe the liver and suppress yang. It has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension accompanied by dizziness and headache.
