Can drinking Jiaogulan in water lower blood pressure?

In our lives, many people are under great pressure and have an unscientific diet, which can easily lead to high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a disease that requires lifelong medication. It is easy to relapse if you don't pay attention in life. Sometimes it can even affect life safety when it develops seriously. Therefore, many Chinese herbal medicines that can treat high blood pressure are liked by many people. Let's find out whether drinking Gynostemma pentaphyllum soaked in water can lower blood pressure.

Can drinking Jiaogulan in water lower blood pressure?

Gynostemma pentaphyllum is used to treat hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and hyperglycemia, especially hyperlipidemia, and is difficult to replace by other medicines and foods.

Effects and functions of Gynostemma pentaphyllum:

1. Lowering blood lipids:

Gynostemma pentaphyllum has the effects of significantly lowering cholesterol (TCH), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), increasing high-density lipoprotein (HDL), protecting the vascular lining cells, preventing lipid deposition in the blood vessel wall, and resisting arteriosclerosis.

2. Regulate blood pressure and prevent thrombosis:

Gynostemma pentaphyllum has the obvious function of reducing blood viscosity and adjusting blood pressure. It can also prevent the formation of microthrombi and increase the tolerance of myocardial cells to hypoxia, thus playing a role in protecting the myocardium. Thrombosis is caused by a variety of factors. Both in vivo and in vitro experiments have shown that Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract has good disintegration or inhibition functions on thrombi formed by a variety of factors, indicating that Gynostemma pentaphyllum is an anti-thrombotic drug with multiple functions such as inhibiting platelet function, coagulation function and red blood cell aggregation. The People's Hospital of Yunyang District in Hubei Province used large doses of single-flavor Gynostemma pentaphyllum to treat 356 patients with thrombosis, and all achieved good results.

3. Prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases:

Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract has a significant protective effect on experimental myocardial infarction: it can reduce the scope of myocardial infarction, inhibit the increase of free fatty acids (FFA) after myocardial infarction, reduce the content of malondialdehyde (MDA), protect the activity of myocardial SOD and creatine phosphokinase (CPK), and correct the metabolic disorder of FFA during myocardial ischemia. Therefore, it has a good protective effect on myocardial ischemia and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Gynostemma pentaphyllum's lipid metabolism regulation and antioxidant effects are beneficial to the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis. Clinical trials have also demonstrated the good effect of Gynostemma pentaphyllum in treating coronary heart disease. Therefore, Gynostemma pentaphyllum may become one of the ideal drugs for the clinical treatment of coronary heart disease.

4. Regulates Blood Sugar:

Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract has no significant effect on blood sugar, has a significant blood sugar-lowering effect on alloxan diabetes, and can also significantly improve blood sugar tolerance in the elderly. Gynostemma pentaphyllum has been used clinically to prevent and treat senile diabetes, and has achieved certain results.

The above is an introduction to whether drinking Gynostemma pentaphyllum soaked in water can lower blood pressure. After understanding it, we know that Gynostemma pentaphyllum can greatly improve high blood pressure. In addition, if we want to better control high blood pressure, we must pay attention to a light diet in our daily life and ensure emotional stability. It is best to go to the hospital for regular check-ups.