Suggestion: Patients with hypertension can drink honey, and patients with hypertension can drink a cup of honey water in the morning and evening, which is beneficial to their health and disease treatment. Scientific tests show that honey is rich in potassium, which can excrete sodium from human body and maintain the electrolyte balance in blood. However, the elderly should not drink honey water before going to bed at night, which is easy to increase blood viscosity. The health tips of traditional Chinese medicine point out that for those elderly people with hypertensive heart disease or atherosclerotic heart disease, eating honey or drinking honey water often has the functions of protecting blood vessels, relaxing bowels and lowering blood pressure.

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