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Homeopathy for Hypertension

homeopathy remedies for hypertension
Written by Dr. Manisha Bhatia

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a medical condition in which pressure of blood increases in blood vessels. Homeopathy offers good prognosis for cases of essential hypertension. Many homeopathic remedies are successfully used to control hypertension. Nux vomica is pre-eminently the remedy for many of the conditions incident to modern life.

hypertension treatment with homeopathy remedies

Are you looking for a homeopathic cure for hypertension? This article discusses the homeopathy treatment of hypertension along with the best homeopathic medicine for hypertension treatment.

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a medical condition in which pressure of blood increases in blood vessels.

Hypertension can be primary when there is no obvious cause or precipitating factor, or the much less common secondary hypertension where there is some identified cause.

A blood pressure of 140/90 or higher is considered high blood pressure. Both numbers are important. If one or both numbers are usually high, you have high blood pressure or hypertension. If you are being treated for high blood pressure, you still have high blood pressure even if you have repeated readings in the normal range.

There are two levels of high blood pressure: Stage 1 and Stage 2 (see the chart below).

Category Systolic
(Top number)
Diastolic
(Bottom number)
Normal Less than 120 Less than 80
Prehypertension 120-139 80-89
High Blood Pressure Systolic Diastolic
Stage 1 140-159 90-99
Stage 2 160 or higher 100 or higher

Homeopathy Treatment for Hypertension / High Blood Pressure

homeopathic remedies for high blood pressure treatmentRaised blood pressure is not a disease in itself. It is just a sign of some underlying disorder. Homeopathy offers good prognosis for cases of essential hypertension.

The treatment is based upon the cause and the totality of the case. Many homeopathic remedies are successfully used to control hypertension.

Homeopathy treats the person as a whole. It means that homeopathic treatment focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological condition.

The homeopathic medicine for hypertension are selected after a full individualizing examination and case-analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient, physical and mental constitution etc.

Following homeopathic medicines have been found effective in many cases of Hypertension:

Lachesis, Aurum met, Aconite, Allium sativa, Strophanthus, Natrum mur, Plumbum met, Carbo animalis, Gelsemium, Ignatia, Glonine, Baryta mur, Veratrum viride, Belladonna, Arsenic alb, Thuja, Adrenalin and many other medicines.

Arnica montana affects the blood and vascular system. Symptoms occur after any trauma or overuse. It is indicated for hypertension with cardiac dropsy with dyspnoea, angina pectoris, feeble and irregular pulse, cardiac asthma.

Aurum muriaticum is indicated for cardiac symptoms of varied nature, arteriosclerosis, valvular lesions and hypertension. It acts on palpitation and tachyarrhythmia. It is useful in patients who are very ambitious and later go into depression due to failures in life. It is also indicated in people with very high sense of duty, which becomes a burden and results in pathology.

Ignatia amara is useful in hypertensive patients of sensitive excitable nature, and helps overcome grief and worry. It is indicated for depression, nervousness, trembling, sleep disorders, constrictive feeling in throat and chest. Patient has a weeping disposition, is usually thirstless, aggravated by warmth and has history of grief.

Natrum muriaticum is a remedy often used for people with fluttering of the heart, with the weak faint feeling worse by lying down. Heart pulsation shakes the body. Losing flesh while living well. There is desire for salt food.  Warmth aggravates in general. Patient is thirsty and introvert. History of grief and suppressed emotions.

Nux vomica – Nux is pre-eminently the remedy for many of the conditions incident to modern life. The typical Nux patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous, and irritable. Hypertension due to altered life style. Intoxicated feeling; worse, morning, mental exertion, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, open air. Frontal headache, with desire to press the head against something. Constipation, with frequent ineffectual urging, incomplete and unsatisfactory; feeling as if part remained unexpelled.

Glonoine-  homeopathic medicine for hypertension has great lassitude, no inclination to work. Extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. Great remedy for congestive headaches. Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head. Better from uncovering head. Throbbing headache. Very irritable. Vertigo on assuming upright position. Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain.

Baryta mur-homeopathic medicine for hypertension has hypertension and vascular degeneration. Increased pulse. Arterio-sclerosis where a high systolic pressure with a comparatively low diastolic tension is attended by cerebral and cardiac symptom. General feeling of lassitude in the morning, especially weakness of the legs, with muscular stiffness. Whizzing and buzzing in ears. Noises in ears on chewing and swallowing, or sneezing.

Allium sativa – Hypertension. Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45 minutes after twenty to forty drop Allium sativum homeopathic medicine for hypertension hasdoses of the tincture. High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more, especially meat, than they drink. Heavy; pulsation in temples. Voracious Burning eructations. Least change in diet causes trouble. Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels

Secale cornatum is indicated for hypertension with congestive pain in head. It also helps to alleviate dyspnoea and oppression of chest, and palpitation with intermittent pulse. Nosebleed due to high blood pressure is also controlled. Females needing this remedy may have history of menorrhagea, metrorrhagea and abortions. Burning pains are marked, which are better by cold applications.

Veratrum album is indicated for collapse, weakness and extreme coldness. It covers cold extremities, cold sweat on forehead, paleness, feeble pulse, and palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration.

Cactus grandiflorus acts on muscular fibres of the heart and is indicated for high blood pressure with anxiety due to heart affections, congestive headaches, constriction in the chest, acute stabbing pains in the heart and weak heart. It is also indicated for low blood pressure.

Crataegus oxyacantha is used for stage 2 and 3 hypertension and its symptoms like extreme dyspnoea and exhaustion at the least exertion, angina pectoris, valvular murmurs, irregular pulse, cyanosis, cold extremities and oedema.

Convallaria majalis increases the heart’s action and renders it more regular. It is used when ventricles are over distended or dilated and venous stasis is marked. It is indicated for dyspnoea, dropsy, tobacco heart, orthopnoea, angina pectoris, palpitation and tachyarrhythmia.

Coffea cruda is indicated for hypertension with palpitation and suppression of urination. It acts on violent coffea-cruda homeopathic medicine for hypertensionirregular palpitations especially after sudden stress, intolerance of pain, restlessness and sleeplessness.

Lobelia inflata is a vaso-motor stimulant and helps to increase blood pressure. It increases the activity of all vegetative processes. It is indicated for conditions with constriction of the chest and epigastrium, leading to dyspnoea, vertigo, nausea and vomiting, and arrhythmia.

Prunus spinosa is indicated for hypertension with tachycardia, which is exacerbated with the slightest motion, dyspnoea, feeling of oppression of the chest and angina pectoris. It has been used to treat problems of urination and shooting headache.

Rauvolfia serpentina is an Indian medicine, used for hypertension without atheromatous changes in the vessels in the form of mother tincture.

Spartium scoparium is used as palliative to combat arterial hypertension in large doses of mother tincture.

Valeriana officinalis is indicated for over-sensitiveness, nervous affections, spasms and convulsive movements of the diaphragm.

Viscum album lowers the blood pressure. It has a calming effect on palpitation and accelerated pulse. It also relieves weight and oppression of heart and dyspnoea. It is used for cardiac hypertrophy with valvular insufficiency.

What is Blood Pressure?

  • Blood pressure is the pressure generated by circulating blood, against the wall of large blood vessels.
  • This pressure is ultimately resulting of the force by which blood is pumped out from the heart to reach every organ and tissue of the body.
  • Blood pressure is expesssed in the terms of systolic and diastolic pressure.
  • Systolic pressure is the maximum pressure on the blood vessels when heart contracts to pumped out blood. It ranges between 100-140 mmHg.
  • Diastolic pressure is the minimum pressure on the blood vessels when heart gets relaxed to fill with blood. It ranges between 60-90 mmHg.
  • Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury or mmHg (millimeter of mercury is a manometric unit of pressure, formerly defined as the extra pressure generated by a column of mercury one millimetre high)
  • Blood pressure is one of the vital signs, along with respiratory rate, heart rate, and body temperature.

Hypertension / High Blood Pressure – TYPES 

Hypertension is divided into two sub types

Primary or essential hypertension – About 90–95% of cases of hypertension are primary, defined as high blood pressure due to nonspecific lifestyle and genetic factors.

Lifestyle factors that increase the risk include excess salt in the diet, excess body weight, smoking, and alcohol use.

Secondary hypertension – The remaining 5–10% of cases are categorized as secondary high blood pressure, defined as high blood pressure due to an identifiable cause and underlying disease.

Causes of Hypertension / High Blood Pressure

Hypertension occurs when arterioles, small blood vessels that branch off from the arteries, become constricted making it difficult for blood to pass through them. As a result, blood pressure rises causing your heart to work harder. If your blood pressure at rest stays at 140/90 or more, you may have hypertension.

Blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood pumped by the heart, and the size and condition of the arteries. Many other factors can affect blood pressure, including volume of water in the body; salt content of the body; condition of the kidneys, nervous system, or blood vessels; and levels of various hormones in the body.

Essential hypertension has no identifiable cause. It may have genetic factors and environmental factors, such as salt intake or others. Essential hypertension comprises over 95% of all high blood pressure.

Secondary hypertension is high blood pressure caused by another disorder. This may include:

  • Adrenal gland tumors
  • Cushing’s syndrome
  • Kidney disorders
  • Glomerulonephritis (inflammation of kidneys)
  • Renal vascular obstruction or narrowing
  • Renal failure
  • Use of medications, drugs, or other chemicals
  • Oral contraceptives
  • Periarteritis nodosa
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Embolus in blood vessels
  • Fibro muscular dyspklasia
  • Polyarthritis nodosa
  • Pyelonephritis
  • Ploycystic disease
  • Wilms tumor
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Renal artery stenosis
  • Coarctation of aorta
  • Excessive use of steroids, oral contraceptives, cyclosporine
  • Toxemia of pregnancy
  • Lead poisoning
  • Raised intracranial pressure

Complications of Hypertension

  • Heart failure – left ventricular failure followed by congestive failure
  • Angina pectoris – usually with transient rise of blood pressure
  • Cerebrovascular accident – cerebral haemorrhage, thrombosis or subarachnoid haemorrhage
  • Hypertensive encephalopathy
  • Malignant hypertension – can occur in hypertension from any cause except coarction of aorta.
  • Renal damage – trace of protienuria and hyaline casts common.
  • Hemorrhages – epistaxis (nose bleed), rarely haematemasis (vomiting of blood), or haemoptysis (coughing up blood).

Hypertension / High Blood Pressure Symptoms

Usually, no symptoms are present. Occasionally, you may experience a mild headache. If your headache is severe, or if you experience any of the symptoms below, you must be seen by a doctor right away. These may be a sign of dangerously high blood pressure (called malignant hypertension) or a complication from high blood pressure.

  • Headache
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Epistaxis (bleeding from nose)
  • Anxiety
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Red face and skin (flushing)
  • Increased swelling
  • Diplopia (double vision)
  • Flushes of heat
  • Dyspnoea (difficulty in breathing)
  • Palpitation
  • Tremors
  • Fatigue, tiredness
  • Drowsiness
  • Irritability
  • Angina-like chest pain (crushing chest pain)
  • Blood in urine
  • Irregular heartbeat
  • Ear noise or buzzing

 

Hypertension / High Blood PressureCONVENTIONAL TREATMENT

Medications may include diuretics, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), or alpha blockers. Medications such as hydralazine, minoxidil, diazoxide, or nitroprusside may be required if the blood pressure is very high.

Hypertension / High Blood Pressure – General Management

Lifestyle changes may help control high blood pressure:

Lose weight if you are overweight. Excess weight adds to strain on the heart. In some cases, weight loss may be the only treatment needed.
Exercise to help your heart.
Adjust your diet as needed. Decrease fat and sodium — salt, MSG, and baking soda all contain sodium. Increase fruits, vegetables, and fiber.

REFERENCE WORKS

  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed, McGraw-Hill
  • Davidson’s Principles and Practise of Medicine, 17th ed, 1996, Churchill Livingstone
  • New Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory, William Boericke, 2nd revised ed., 2001, B. Jain

The above information about homeopathy treatment of hypertension is only for information purpose. Please consult a professional homeopath before taking any homeopathic medicine for hypertension. 

Hypertension Cases Cured with Homeopathic Medicine

Gestational Hypertension – by Rohit Gupta

A Chronic Case – Headache – by Roger A Schmidt

A Case of Ytterbium oxydatum – by Pavol Tibensky

A Constitutional Approach to a Case of Hypertension – by Parth Aphale

Chronic Gastric Issues and Hypertension – by Nidhi Pandya

A CHELIDONIUM CASE OF HYPERTENSION AND COGNITIVE DISABILITY – by Adam Fiore

About the author

Dr. Manisha Bhatia

BHMS, M.D. (Hom), CICH (Greece)
Dr. (Mrs) Manisha Bhatia is a leading homeopathy doctor working in Jaipur, India. She has studied with Prof. George Vithoulkas at the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy. She is the Director of Asha Homeopathy Medical Center, Jaipur's leading clinic for homeopathy treatment and has been practicing since 2004.

She writes for Hpathy.com about homeopathic medicines and their therapeutic indications and homeopathy treatment in various diseases. She is also Associate Professor, HoD and PG Guide at S.K. Homeopathy Medical College. To consult her online, - visit Dr. Bhatia's website.

2 Comments

  • Do you recommend taking homeopathic medicines for years? I don’t want high blood pressure drugs so am looking at homeopathic since I’ve had good luck with them for other things but figure if I find something that works I may have to take it a long time.

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