Nowadays, we have more and more friends around us suffering from hypertension. In order to recover as soon as possible, besides taking medication, we also need to pay attention to self-care, especially in terms of diet. So what should people with hypertension eat? Below, Chinese medicine recommends some commonly used medicated diets for hypertension. Let's take a look together.
I. Sanqi Black Fungus Black Chicken Soup
Ingredients: 150g black chicken, 5g sanqi (Radix Notoginseng), 10g black fungus, 3 slices of ginger, salt to taste.
Method:
1. Clean and chop the black chicken; wash the sanqi and cut into thin slices; soak and wash the black fungus, tear into small pieces.
2. Boil water in a pot, put in the black chicken to blanch and remove the blood.
3. Boil an appropriate amount of water in a clay pot, then add the black chicken, sanqi, black fungus, and ginger slices. Bring to a boil over high heat.
4. Reduce to low heat and simmer for 3 hours. Season with salt.
Effects:
1. Sanqi: It has the effects of stopping bleeding, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling, and relieving pain.
2. Black fungus: It has the effects of cleansing the stomach and intestines, preventing radiation, invigorating the qi, strengthening the body, promoting blood circulation, lowering blood lipid levels, and delaying aging.
3. Black chicken: It has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, nourishing yin and clearing heat, invigorating the spleen and stopping diarrhea, delaying aging, preventing and treating osteoporosis, and nourishing the blood.
4. Sanqi Black Fungus Black Chicken Soup: This soup has the effects of nourishing the blood and promoting blood circulation, reducing blood pressure and protecting the heart, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain, nourishing the liver and kidneys, and invigorating the qi and strengthening the body.
II. Mulberry Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients: 100g oatmeal, 50g mulberries, sugar to taste.
Method:
1. Prepare a basin of boiling water, add a little salt, and let it cool to make light saltwater.
2. Rinse the mulberries with light saltwater for 5 minutes; wash the oatmeal.
3. Boil an appropriate amount of water in a pot, add the oatmeal, and cook over medium heat until thickened.
4. Add the washed mulberries and cook for 3 minutes. Stir in sugar.
Effects:
1. Mulberries: They have the effects of nourishing the blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, moistening the intestines and detoxifying.
2. Oatmeal: It has the effects of lowering blood pressure, reducing cholesterol, nourishing the liver and stomach, promoting bowel movements, losing weight, anti-aging, and maintaining beauty.
3. Mulberry Oatmeal Porridge: This porridge has the effects of invigorating the spleen and stomach, lowering blood pressure and blood lipid levels, nourishing yin and nourishing the kidneys, moistening dryness and detoxifying, promoting bowel movements, and anti-aging and beauty.
III. Radish Mung Bean Ophiopogon Porridge
Ingredients: 20g white radish, 40g mung beans, 40g rice, ophiopogon (mai men dong) appropriate amount, 2g salt.
Method:
1. Soak and wash the rice and mung beans; cut the white radish into small cubes; wash the ophiopogon and boil it in water to extract the juice.
2. Put the extracted juice in a pot, add the rice and mung beans, and bring to a boil over medium heat.
3. Add the white radish and simmer until thickened. Season with salt.
Effects:
1. White radish: It has the effects of relieving qi, promoting digestion, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, detoxifying and generating fluids, diuresis, and promoting bowel movements.
2. Mung beans: They have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, diuresis and reducing swelling, promoting bowel movements, lowering blood lipid levels, and protecting the liver.
3. Ophiopogon: It has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing heat, moistening the lungs and kidneys. It is used to treat symptoms such as yin deficiency fever, lung abscess, and diabetes.
4. Radish Mung Bean Ophiopogon Porridge: This porridge has the effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, diuresis and reducing swelling, detoxifying and generating fluids, lowering blood lipid levels and blood pressure, and moisturizing the intestines and promoting bowel movements.
Friends with hypertension, quickly try these three traditional Chinese medicated diets. They have very good effects in reducing blood lipid levels and blood pressure.
