What food should people with low blood pressure eat?
The therapeutic prescriptions for preventing and treating hypotension are mostly natural tonic and tonic with the same origin of medicine and food. The varieties with better effects are pork, mutton, beef, ham, carp, loach, chicken, quail, jujube, longan, royal jelly, brown sugar, ginseng, astragalus, Cordyceps sinensis, Codonopsis pilosula, Pseudostellaria heterophylla, Ophiopogon japonicus and cinnamon. The above foods that tonify qi and blood, nourish yin and help yang are helpful to balance yin and yang and regulate blood pressure. This paper introduces several therapeutic prescriptions that have been proved to be effective in clinic. 1. Ham porridge: ham 150g, a small amount of iodized salt, chopped green onion and pepper. Wash the japonica rice first, boil the water and make the porridge bigger. Boil until 10 min. After boiling, add ham slices and simmer for 15 min. Add iodized salt, chopped green onion and pepper to taste. This recipe can strengthen the spleen to stimulate appetite, promote fluid production to quench thirst, benefit blood and raise blood pressure. 2. Stewed chicken with astragalus root: 1 rooster, 30g of astragalus root. Kill the rooster first, then remove the viscera, hair and claws. Put it into a casserole, add water and appropriate amount of onion, ginger, iodized salt, dried tangerine peel and cooking wine, and simmer until cooked. This can replenish qi and boost pressure. 3. Pseudostellaria heterophylla cinnamon tea: Pseudostellaria heterophylla 10g, cinnamon 3g, licorice 3g. Make tea with boiling water for future generations. This can help yang qi and raise blood pressure. 4. Ginseng and lotus seed broth: red ginseng slice 5g, lotus seed meat 10 tablets, and rock sugar 30g. First, put red ginseng and pitted lotus seeds into a bowl, soak them in water, and then add rock sugar. Then put the bowl into a steamer and steam 1 hour. Eat lotus seed meat with soup. Red ginseng slice can be used twice in a row, and lotus seeds, crystal sugar and water are added the next day. For example, after steaming and stewing in the previous method, you can eat lotus seed meat in soup and even chew it with red ginseng slice. Take it continuously or at intervals. It can tonify Yiyang temperature, soothe the nerves and boost blood pressure, and is especially suitable for people with low blood pressure caused by mental work. 5. Longan wine: 100g longan meat, add 500ml low-alcohol liquor and soak for 2 weeks. Drink 1 small cup every night, about 15 ml. Those who can't drink white wine can soak longan in wine. This can replenish qi and blood, benefit the heart and spleen, soothe the nerves and boost the pressure. 6. Brown sugar sesame paste: 60g of brown sugar, 60g of black sesame and 30g of ginger. First, black sesame seeds are ground into fine powder, and ginger is mashed into mud, and the three are evenly mixed, 6 grams each time is taken with boiling water, 2-3 times a day. This can nourish yin, replenish blood and raise blood pressure. To treat hypotension, we might as well start with diet therapy. Please have a try.