About High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure or hyper tension is one of the most crucial and regular health hazard that all over the world cause millions of people suffer and apart from causing cardiac arrest and stroke it causes innumerable peoples to become victim to a great array of other critical as well as chronic diseases. High blood pressure is increasingly becoming the leading cause of cardiovascular diseases all over the world. High blood pressure is mainly caused by lifestyle irregularities relating to unhealthy diet, lack of rest, sleep disorder, stress, lack of physical exercises, etc.

As per clinical definition high blood pressure is the heightened or elevated level of blood flow through the arteries and it poses serious health challenge because in such medical condition our heart is required to work harder than normal to circulate blood through blood vessels. Blood pressure is represented simultaneously in two measurements, systolic and diastolic. The rate of contraction of heart muscle due to blood pressure is represented as systolic and the rate of relaxation between heart beats is called diastolic. As per worldwide medical determination the rate of normal blood pressure is determined as 80mmHg for diastolic to 120mmHg for systolic.

High blood pressure is a chronic medical condition and still now so called modern medical science could not find any conclusive curative answer in the treatment of high blood pressure. This is the precise reason why holistic treatment through Ayurveda, yoga, meditation or other herbal or natural medicinal traditions are increasingly becoming popular for the treatment of high blood pressure. High blood pressure as a lifestyle oriented disease can be controlled through shifts or changes in lifestyle by incorporating healthy habits and low calorie dieting, physical exercise, avoiding stress and proportionate rest. At any rate still now holistic treatment and preventive measures in bringing change in lifestyle are two areas that are considered most effective in the treatment of high blood pressure.