The Risks of High Blood Pressure
So we know that having high blood pressure isn’t a good thing. What are the other conditions? Having high blood pressure increases heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, kidney failure, blindness, aneurysms, and heart disease.

Most people that have high blood pressure don’t do anything about it until it reaches the status of “malignant hypertension”. This means that diabolic high pressure is over 140 mm Hg.

So How Did I Get High Blood Pressure?
Some of the common factors include:

• Being Overweight
• Low Activity Levels
• Stress
• Use of Tobacco
• Age
• Genetics
• Excessive Sodium Consumption

So How Do I Treat High Blood Pressure?

Some of the leading natural treatments include:

• Hawthorn Berry
• Allum Sativa
• Magnesium, Calcium & Potassium

Hawthorn Berry
By increasing the flow of blood through the arteries, Hawthorn Berries have aided in lowering blood pressure. Other effects include reduction of insomnia, reduction of inflammation of the heart muscle, and heart palpitations. In 2006, a study² was conducted which resulted in patients with lower blood pressure over 10 weeks of consuming Hawthorn extract.

Allum Sativa
Chinese herbalists have used Allum Sativa to treat a variety of disorders and infections. Scientific studies have later shown this herb as being a remedy for lowering cholesterol and normalizing high blood pressure.

Magnesium, Calcium and Potassium
A Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Study³ has shown high levels of magnesium, calcium and potassium significantly lower blood pressure levels. Four years later, a follow-up study also showed that high levels of these minerals reduced hypertension.

References

¹ http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4621
² http://www.physiologics.com/herbclip/review.asp?i=44745
³ http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/965927519.html