Living with hypertension

Good day.

Relaxing effect of ginseng on vascular smooth muscle allosteric activation of NO synthase 3, by increasing its gene expression and normalization of the stress axis is known for quite some time. Confirmed him as recent scientific studies ( chen1996cpg , chow1976psc , jeon2000ekr , han1998erg , sung2000erg ). Immediately early days, however, it noted a few things.

Hypertension is only a symptom

First, hypertension is not so much a disease but rather a symptom, like fever. As well as fever, hypertension and there are different and each requires a different treatment. Ginseng is excellent for hypertension, primary (essential, idiopathic) , which is the majority of our population - account for 95% of all hypertension. Minor (said secondary) hypertension , the cause lies in other diseases, are treated with other drugs as well as ginseng, they may not always take, or even in specific cases may be beneficial. Therefore, and this brings me to my second comment, I recommend to always use ginseng (tid) to measure pressure. Therefore also recommend physician supervision. And not just because the doctors are the only ones in our right to a mistake.

Dr. House is not just a fairy tale character

Although readers' letters read carefully and I am assuming a lot, I'm a huge disadvantage against someone who you have in front of him in his office and can send you the specialized tests. I am only a biologist, not a psychic, and all its recommendations therefore provide only advice to consider the good doctor. Really good doctors, as good as the legendary Dr. House, but real, for us really exist. I know this because at least two, I personally knew: One of them was related to my uncle, an internist who wore all medical books in my head. The second is my former classmate , who studied medicine and became angiologem in Bratislava and later in Brno. This is a doctor who not only takes his work seriously, but it has eidetic knowledge of medicine, human genes and chemistry, which I always tops (and that even Dr. physics as a woman :-). This man, even if the ginseng knew nothing, would you within 3 hours he produced some of its effects and it would immediately retire properly filed their knowledge, despite the false negative propaganda that ginseng have done since the 90 years, some "medical" journals.

Each physician must be to a large extent, a detective and a good doctor is not easy to deceive, whether it tested patients or propagandists. When a doctor tells you that ginseng does not recognize, do not tell him that the ginseng was written more scientific publications than any other medicinal plant. Answer him with a smile that ginseng in either of its parts and recommend the series House and watch his reaction. (Specifically, it was the recovery of immunity after accidental exposure to the patient. Dr. House, if you remember, the recommended herbs and Chinese Cordyceps (Cordyceps) , but I forgot what the indication.)

Further to your questions

If the spell ends

Maybe not, but the pressure you have three times a day to measure how well you've done so far.

Side effects of your medication for high blood pressure

The secondary symptoms that you describe, you may have been prescribed amlodipine. His withdrawal is arbitrary but something here I can not and do not even permitted to approve. Once again, find a doctor who will not only kind and good, but the addition of hundreds of industrial medicine know the indication of thousands of active secondary metabolites freely available in nature.

How long you have to take ginseng

Hypertension is a chronic disease and its treatment is causal exceptions beyond the possibilities of contemporary medicine. If you are interested in preventing the dreaded complications of hypertension - heart attack and stroke - hypertension must be treated symptomatically, ie the artificial lowering of blood pressure, which of course does not remove the real cause of hypertension. In other words, exactly as you say, you will need for hypertension until the end of your days to take something. If you takes ginseng, you can talk about happiness. Ginseng has fewer side-effects because it lowers blood pressure by turning the ignition key, not pulled out the fuel supply hose, as do the blockers of Ca ^{2 +} channels.

Interaction of ginseng with other medicines

How did she knew, ginseng is itself a cure for high blood pressure and other problems. His interaction (interaction) with other drugs but is weaker than we expected, because ginseng accepted long term in low doses has only a slight change of expression of certain genes. It does not change the physiology of the body so as to be significantly influenced by the effect of industrial medicine, working mostly at the level of finished allosteric proteins. Do not be so frightening false "interactions" of ginseng and other herbs that are here and there around the 90th roztrubovány years in magazines intended for medical audience. Ginseng is one of the safest herbs and can be taken through self-regulation - when someone is not doing well, so it simply discontinued.

When not to use ginseng

We have registered a case of the negative effects of ginseng in renal hypertension. I also have kept the traditional advice not to take ginseng in acute febrile diseases, particularly bacterial. Other bogies (any ordinary interactions and contraindications) are, as I suggested above, the most fanciful, so as to coincide with the main indications (such as "interaction" with warfarin) and doctors can easily refute the scientific study of literature written by real experts on ginseng, not overviews of hired writers' different herbs in medicine. "

This will now say good-bye to you. About your experience and interest we would like to hear from you again.

-Boris-