Hypertension

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Many cases of hypertension are surprisingly so - good diet, plenty of

exercise, no family history, good cholesterol levels - but still with high blood

pressure.

This needs to be investigated to exclude various causes, such as kidney

disease and so on, but the GP presumably is looking into this.

The stress angle may be one to follow. Many people who are not outwardly

'stressed' actually hold a lot of stress / emotion in, and this can lead to high

blood pressure.

As regards the pulse, this is not unusual given the amount of exercise this

patient does, but again investigation is needed - at the very least an ECG to

exclude various problems such as heart block and so on.

Despite his reasonable diet, there are some approaches that may help. I

personally have found a particular regime known as 'Mr Hutchinson's fat burning

soup' to be helpful in reducing my own blood pressure - and it helps with

various other things too, like weight loss. Mr Hutchinson is a consultant

surgeon

and recommended this diet to patients who needed to lose weight prior to

surgery - and it works!

If you would like a copy of it please let me know.

Hope this all helps.

Kindest regards,

Mr Arwel MB BCh Dip.Phyt. DIHom

Medical Herbalist and Practitioner in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Better Health, Chester

<A HREF= " www.betterhealth.ltd.uk " >www.betterhealth.ltd.uk</A> ...for a better

life

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arwel63@... wrote:

> Despite his reasonable diet, there are some approaches that may help. I

> personally have found a particular regime known as 'Mr Hutchinson's fat

> burning soup' to be helpful in reducing my own blood pressure - and it

> helps with various other things too, like weight loss. Mr Hutchinson is

> a consultant surgeon and recommended this diet to patients who needed to

> lose weight prior to surgery - and it works!

>

> If you would like a copy of it please let me know.

You might have noticed that any and all such offers are followed-up onlist

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Thank you.

Henriette (that goes for 's diet thingy too.)

--

Henriette Kress, AHG Helsinki, Finland

Henriette's herbal homepage: http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed

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Best Wishes

Arwel MB BCh Dip.Phyt. DIHom

Medical Herbalist and Practitioner in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Better Health, Chester

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life

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Hello everyone, have just seen new patient. Age 49 male. PC Blood pressure of

150/90 discovered during routine check whilst at GP for ear infection. No family

history of hypertension, normal cholesterol levels, none smoker, exercise ++ -

cycles regularly, yoga, gym, great diet (been on " eat to beat arthritis " diet

for 7 weeks ie no wheat, no alcohol, no caffeine, no solanacea but even before

this diet good though did include moderate amounts of alcohol, daily coffee and

wheat), not overweight, doesn't feel stressed by job. Pt says more likely to

feel stressed by situations he can't control. Gets white finger tips in cold

weather, also tendency to chilblains. Mild OA in hip and both knees.

CV examination - NAD. Pulse 46, BP 150/92. This pulse rate surprised me.

Urinalysis NAD.

First Rx contains Crataegus, Achillea, Ginkgo, Withania. Separate dropper bottle

containing Vib op.

I know all case histories are individual but I've never seen a pt with

hypertension and a case history quite like this. Any observations would be

gratefully received, particularly regarding the pulse rate. One thing I realise

I forgot to do was count pulse whilst auscultating - could have missed some

beats just feeling radial pulse.

Regards

Sue Salmon