◆ congestion around the liver: Many factors in the environmental pollution may play a part in producing congested liver. Thus it is indicated that one try to remove as much environmental pollutants as possible to normalize the liver congestion. There are other herbal remedies known to enhance the liver function, and to detoxify bad substances bound to liver cells. In the herbal remedies popular in Korea for removing liver toxins and enhancing liver function are gyae-ji-ban-ha-saeng-gang-tang, Ryang-gyuk-san-wha-tang, and Chung-pyae-sa-gan-tang. These specific formulas stand out in the purpose of solving the congestion in the liver.

Also, note that the long-lasting stresses, by it's own mechanism of producing internal toxins throughout organs, will certainly intensify the pathology .

◆ Insufficiency of Yin energy, abnormal kidney: There are some controversy over the correlation between the loss of Yin energy and kidney dysfunction, but it has long been accepted by oriental medicine practitioners that loss of Yin energy will eventually cause kidneys to be impaired. Having too much sex partners, eating too much salts, heavy metal deposits in the kidenys and others can compromise the kidney function in the long run. For this reason, dietary habit modification, including well known herbal remedies as well, is usually indicated to be applied to normalize the kidney function. For most part especially in Korean oriental medicine, popularly used by oriental medicine practitioners are herbal formulas such as Yuk-mi-ji-hwang-tang and Yul-da-han-so-tang and less popularly used in So-eum constitution, Guan-jung-tang.

◆ Obesity(obese humidity): There is no doubt that reducing body weight on most occasions, if not all, can lower the blood pressure efficiently. Herbal remedies, along with diet alteration and moderate excercise, may play such an important role in losing weights, that most clients living in Korea usaully seek herbal remedies and oriental medicine instead of prescription drugs.

With body weight reduced, and with the whole length of blood vessels shortened consequently, the heart no longer needs to pump out as large an amount of blood throughout the whole body as before, forcing less pressure against arterial walls.

On this matter, many kinds of herbal formulas are successfully being used in Korea for the purpose of diminishing weights

◆ Hotness and Humidity in colon; Detoxification of digestive tract requires dietary modification on most occasions, shifting from junk foods and improper foods to haelth ones. Food additives, colorings, synthetic food sauces are the examples that should be avoided, whereas recommended are organic foods, filtered or mineral water and natural food oils.

Many herbal formulas work in dumping a bout of toxins out of the colon. Specifically in the Korean constitutional medicine, formulas like Hyang-sa-yang-yi-tang, Yul-da-han-so-tang, Yang-gyug-san-hwa-tang gas long been used successfully for the purpose. With these measures properly applied, clients usually see a lot of improvement in blood pressure control as well as general health condition.

◆ Excercise guide: There is no doubt that exercise reduces the blood pressur. However, there should be guidelines that I describe will lead us to the maximum results.

① Excercise in the fresh air other than indoors usually are more helpful for it provides us with more oxygen, which has the function of dilating blood vessels.

②Allow the sunlight on your skin about fifteen to twenty minutes a day for it often increases the release of the blood pressure lowering substances in many parts of the body.

③Relaxation technigues such as Yora, stretching, meditation and others also paly a part in blood pressure control. Too much exercise that leads to fatigue for more than two days usually doesn't get down the blood pressure but on many occasions causes other unfavorable imbalances.

④Too much sweating during the exercise may induce the loss of essential minerals, which may do a harm to arteries.

◆ Dietary modification that works on everyone: Diet change is essential whatever you do to try to recover blood pressure. Unfortunately many people don't know how to adjust their own eating habits. Here are guidelines that help everyone with high blood pressure alter, modify and adjust dietary habits.

What has been known about the function of vitamin D so far is that vitamin D helps osteoporosis patients by increasing bone density, that deficient vitamin D may cause rickets, that we make it from sunshine, and that vitamin D is added to dairy products. However, there are recent reports newly discovered about how it works.

It turns out that vitamin D may normalize the blood pressure by getting in movement of calcium across the cell membrane, relaxing arterial walls. If this were not enough, science reveals that proper distribution of calcium in every cell through the cell membrane eventually result in the balance of the cell's electrical potential thus helping to restore the endothelial tones, relax arterial muscles and balance the vessel streams out.

Vitamin D receptors are almost in every tissue of the body. Metabolic syndrome, congestive heart failure, insulin release are some of examples of imbalances that can be protected by the sufficient vitamin D. Some readers who have read "Alternative causes of hypertension" on our site probably have been reminded how important it is to control the metabolic syndrome and insulin production in the body for reversing the high blood pressure. Yes, it is vitally important.

Sometimes the commonsense is wrong. We have been given false sense of "security" in many ways such as fortification of common foods like milk via synthetic vitamins. Real vitamin D is D3 or cholecalciferol that we produce in the skin and consume in the diet, not the D2 or ergocalcifero, added to dairy products as a tortifier, that is produced by irradiating fungi and is less effective and more toxic.