As a case study, let us look at how we can use our knowledge on body constitution classification to adjust our body constitution so that our body will be balanced, and we will feel comfortable.
Let us look at a case of high blood pressure. If we have high blood pressure, what do we do to recondition our body so that we feel more comfortable?
There are several ways to do that, but here we will discuss how we can apply the Mustang Dietary Technique to recondition our body with high blood pressure.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, there are different types of hypertension, and dietary adjustments must be symptomatic to achieve the best results.
That is to say, there are several types of high blood pressure conditions, and we should choose the right dietary adjustments according to our body constitution to achieve the best results.
We may review the different types of body constitution classification mentioned before to see what our body constitution type is, or we may simplify the matter by using the feeling of our head to do so.
When we have high blood pressure, we tend to feel dizzy and have headaches. Different types of high blood pressure will have slightly different sensations in the head, and we can identify them based on this.
01 High blood pressure classification and solutions
In traditional herbal medicine, the high blood pressure condition is not treated as a disease.
The body has changed in such a way that the body is now out of balance, leading to a condition called high blood pressure. The ideal way is to recondition the body so that the body will return to a balanced condition, leading to the disappearance of high blood pressure.
The first easy way to recondition our body is through our diet, so the dietary technique is widely used. We will discuss other techniques elsewhere on our website.
Our body may change in several ways leading to high blood pressure. We hereby classify them into four types as follows.
Type one: excessive liver yang-energy
Symptoms
With this type of high blood pressure, a person will have a red face, prone to dry mouth and tongue, sore throat, and short-tempered.
He may experience frequent dizziness and headache.
Solutions: Reconditioning dietary technique
01 Banana peel soup
Preparation method. Cut the peel of a fresh banana (only the peel, the yellow stuff) into pieces. Put it into a pot with cold water and cook. Bring it to a boil and cook for five minutes. Discard the peel, and drink only the water.
A person usually will not see the health efficacies right away. If it suits his taste, he may drink it every day as a soup or tea.
02 Baiju antihypertensive tea
Preparation method. Soak five hundred grams (slightly more than one pound) of white chrysanthemum (baiju, dry product) in water overnight. Add water to the soaked flower in a pot and bring it to a boil. Lower the heat and cook for thirty minutes. Decant the water into a pitcher. This is our first batch. Now add water to the pot and cook again for thirty minutes. This is our second batch. Add the second batch to the first batch in the pitcher. This is our flower tea drink.
Put it in the refrigerator and drink it for ten days. The health efficacies of this drink is closely related to the dosage, so the dosage must be sufficient.
Type two: Phlegm-dampness
Symptoms
With this type of high blood pressure, a person is prone to dozing off and sometimes feels chest tightness and nausea.
He may experience a heavy head or stiff neck.
Solutions: Reconditioning dietary technique
01 Loofah tea
Preparation method. Cut one piece of loofah (a gourd, similar to squash, here we must use an old loofah on the vine) into pieces and put it in a pot. Add to it one piece of Sichuan dried tangerine peel (remind you of tangerine chicken, right?) and six grams of almonds (from a Chinese herbal store, not the one we buy to make almond milk.) Add water to it and bring it to a boil, and then cook at low heat for thirty minutes. The tea is now ready. We drink only the water, not the ingredients.
Someone will ask: How much water?
The usual standard is enough water to cover the ingredients in the pot. You may also use the standard for making a cup of tea. You may use 250 ml of water. Well, experiment with it.
Type three: yin-deficiency
Symptoms
With this type of high blood pressure, a person is prone to premature presbyopia, often suffers from backache and knee soreness, and sweats while sleeping.
He may experience dull pain in the head for a long time and tinnitus.
Solutions: Reconditioning dietary technique
01 Cuttlefish porridge
Preparation method. Cook the porridge with one piece of preserved egg, one piece of dried cuttlefish, and one hundred grams of white rice.
Type four: Yin-deficiency and yang-deficiency
Symptoms
People with long-term high blood pressure and long-term dependence on antihypertensive drugs will easily become more and more deficient, eventually becoming deficient in both yin and yang.
With this type of high blood pressure, a person is prone to be afraid of cold and prone to anger. He may get tired easily, feel weak and have poor memory.
He may feel dizzy.
Solutions: Reconditioning dietary technique
01 Walnut porridge
Preparation method. Make porridge with eight pieces of walnut kernels (crushed) and one hundred grams of glutinous rice (sticky rice).
02 Daily reconditioning practice
As we live our daily life, we may feel that we have become uncomfortable. We may feel that we are tired most of the time. We may feel that we are afraid of coldness. We may feel that we have headaches more often. We may feel that we have tinnitus more often.
We may feel that we get angry more often. We may feel that we get agitated more often.
We usually shake it off and hope that it will go away sooner or later.
However, once we reach a certain age, life cultivation practitioners like us will begin to look after ourselves. In fact, become our own doctors.
We check to see whether we have high sugar content in our blood. We check to see whether we have high blood pressure. We check to see why we are in a bad mood all the time.
Once we find out that we have high blood pressure, we start to change our diet to deal with high blood pressure before we have to resort to prescription drugs that we have to take for the remainder of our life.
This way we recondition our body back to normal in a balanced state before it goes too far out.
This website is written for you to learn and practice on reconditioning your body and mind so that you will live a balanced life. If you want to learn more, read more articles in the Resources section on the menu.
03 People with low blood pressure
Can people with low blood pressure eat foods that can regulate high blood pressure? How will it affect them?
People with low blood pressure may eat foods that tend to regulate high blood pressure. It will not further lower their blood pressure.
The dietary technique that we use to recondition a body will affect the causes of elevated blood pressure. It will not help to lower the blood pressure just by eating the foods. Therefore, the ingredients in the above recipes will not make people with high blood pressure lower their blood pressure. It seeks to recondition the biased body constitution to return to a balanced body constitution. And, a balanced body constitution will naturally have a normal blood pressure.
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