High blood pressure, as a common disease, has seriously affected people's health. Hypertensive patients often experience symptoms such as dizziness, headache, stroke, and tinnitus. Now let's take a look at the main symptoms of high blood pressure from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine.
1. Dizziness
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dizziness is mostly caused by deficiency, often due to the dysfunction of the liver and kidney. For example, yin deficiency easily leads to liver wind internal movement, blood deficiency deprives the brain of nourishment, and essence deficiency leads to insufficient marrow and sea, all of which can cause dizziness. Secondly, dizziness can also be caused by turbidity and fire. If the liver yang of the human body is excessively vigorous, it can cause wind to rise and disturb the clear orifices, resulting in dizziness. Or in the elderly or those with weakened physical condition, long-term illness can lead to kidney essence deficiency and dizziness. Some hypertensive patients experience dizziness due to phlegm obstruction, while others experience it due to blood stasis.
2. Headache
There are many causes of headaches, but they can be categorized into external and internal injuries. The head is where the meeting of the yang qi and the residence of the clear yang is located. It is also where the marrow sea is located. The blood of the five viscera and the clear yang qi of the six fu all flow upward to the head. Therefore, when the evil qi of the six excesses attacks from the outside and invades the head, or when internal injuries occur, causing chaos in the circulation of qi and blood, obstruction of the meridians, and deprivation of nourishment to the brain, headaches can occur. Hypertensive patients who have been angry for a long time and have stagnant liver qi are prone to rising fire, resulting in headaches.
3. Stroke
The occurrence of stroke is mainly due to the deficiency of qi and blood in the patient, as well as the imbalance of the heart, liver, and kidney. In addition, excessive thinking, anger, alcohol consumption, overeating, physical and mental exhaustion, and external pathogenic factors can all lead to the blockage of qi and blood circulation, the lack of nourishment to the muscles, skin, tendons, and meridians, and the deprivation of the brain. This can lead to a critical syndrome characterized by upper fullness and lower deficiency, with the failure of yin and yang to maintain harmony.
4. Tinnitus
Hypertensive patients often have kidney yin deficiency. The kidneys are responsible for storing essence and producing marrow. Long-term illness or old age can damage the kidneys, resulting in the inability of essence and blood to nourish the tendons and bones, leading to soreness and weakness in the waist and limbs, and overall weakness of the body. Since the kidneys open to the ears, kidney yin deficiency can cause tinnitus.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "a slight change in one part of the body can affect the whole body." If there is a problem in one aspect of the body, it will also affect other aspects. In the case of high blood pressure, when blood pressure rises, various problems in the body will follow. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine treatment focuses on regulation and addressing the root cause.
