What are the best Chinese medicinal materials for lowering blood pressure?

　　With the improvement of living standards, there are more and more patients with hypertension. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that long-term use of blood pressure-lowering drugs is prone to side effects, so you might as well try Chinese herbal medicine to lower blood pressure.

　　Eucommia ulmoides

　　It is a kind of dry bark. Don’t underestimate this bark. It is a valuable nourishing medicinal material. It is mainly used to treat kidney deficiency, low back pain, fetal movement, fetal leakage, high blood pressure, etc. The main antihypertensive component of Eucommia ulmoides is pinoresinol diglucoside. Eucommia ulmoides water extract has an inhibitory effect on the oxidative modification of low-density lipoprotein and has a blood pressure-lowering effect. The blood pressure-lowering effect is stable, non-toxic, and has no adverse reactions. It mainly reduces blood pressure by directly dilating blood vessels and inhibiting the vasomotor center.

　　wild chrysanthemum

　　Its appearance is very similar to chrysanthemum, and it grows wild on hillside grasslands and beside roads and fields. It can be used to treat boils and carbuncles, sore throats, wind-fire red eyes, headaches and dizziness. It also has a good antihypertensive effect and can be used as an auxiliary treatment for hypertension. The 95% ethanol extract of wild chrysanthemum mainly contains water-insoluble substances such as chrysanthemum lactones and flavonoid glycosides. It has a certain antihypertensive effect on cats and normal dogs, and the antihypertensive effect is slow and long-lasting, making it an ideal antihypertensive drug.

　　Prunella vulgaris

　　It is a relatively common antihypertensive traditional Chinese medicine with a lip-shaped appearance. It has diuretic, liver-clearing, and lowering blood pressure effects. The leaves can also be brewed into tea. Regarding the active ingredient for lowering blood pressure, it has been considered to be the potassium salt it contains. Prunella vulgaris decoction (Prunella vulgaris, Radix Scutellariae, Scutellaria baicalensis, Dragon's tooth, Mother of Pearl, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc.) was used to treat 40 cases of grade 1 and grade 2 hypertension, and the results showed that the total effective rate was 92%. 5%. Prunella vulgaris decoction can treat hypertensive patients with liver-fire inflammation and collateral stagnation. It has a good effect in lowering blood pressure and pulse pressure. It can also improve the patient's endothelial function and delay the development of atherosclerosis.

　　Cassia

　　It tastes bitter, sweet and cool in nature, and has the functions of clearing liver fire, dispelling rheumatism, nourishing the kidneys and improving eyesight. The antihypertensive effect of the protein in cassia seeds is related to the absorption of the amino acids and short chains formed after the protein is decomposed in the intestine into the bloodstream. The antihypertensive effect produced by the oligosaccharides in Cassia seeds is related to its promotion of the proliferation of intestinal bifidobacteria. However, Cassia seed has cold and cool medicinal properties and has the effects of diarrhea and lowering blood pressure, so it is not suitable for patients with cold spleen and stomach, spleen deficiency, diarrhea and hypotension.