As far back as we know, spices have had a positive impact on high blood pressure. One spice that makes the list is cinnamon, a natural remedy. There are many others, but cinnamon is easy to find and it is priced within the reach of most everyone. Lets look at how adding cinnamon to our diets can help with your hypertension problems.
Two Types of Cinnamon
Cinnamon comes in two forms, whole and extract. Both are effective in reducing high blood pressure. As a side note, besides aiding in blood pressure issues, you can also look into using this for diabetes problems too.
The question we need to clear up first is, how does cinnamon affect hypertension problems?
Cinnamon has properties that aid the insulin process that occurs in our body. This effects and lowers the levels of glucose and triglycerides (blood fat) in our systems, this helps folks with high blood pressure. It is always beneficial, especially with high blood pressure, when bad fats can be reduced inside your arterial walls. This is a first step in controlling your problem.
Preparing Cinnamon
Since there are a few ways to use cinnamon, we need to choose one that you can include in your daily diet, which will be easy to do and provides the benefits you need.
1 – Try adding 1/2 teaspoon of powdered cinnamon to yogurt, cereal or toast on a daily basis. Next, you can take 1 capsule of cinnamon twice a day or add 32 drops of a tincture to 1 ounce of distilled water 3 times a day.
2 – Another way to do this is use 1/2 teaspoon of powdered cinnamon with eight ounces of boiling water. Let sit for 15 minutes, makes 2 cups of 4 ounces each. Drink this twice a day.
The whole point to this method is you want to get enough cinnamon in your body so it can begin the process of reversing some of the damage that high blood pressure has done.
Cinnamon is a place to start, it is cheap and has no side effects. From there you can research further into more herbs and spices that you could add that would be of benefit to your hypertension problem. These are long term remedies for hypertension, contrary to drugs..pills, cinnamon and the likes won’t harm other organs.
Keep you doctor informed, most spices will not conflict with medications, but it’s always safer to inform your doctor about any changes you make.
There are other remedies for your high blood pressure issues.
For more information go to High Blood Pressure Remedies. Go natural, do it for the long term, do it for better health, and most of all do it to enjoy life.
