From this article you will learn: how the karkade tea affects pressure - raises or lowers it, and also about what features this influence is caused. Benefits karkade for the cardiovascular system, especially the preparation and use of tea, which can affect its properties.
Contents of the article:
- Why karkade reduces pressure indices
- How to brew and drink karkade for lowering pressure
Karkade tea is a fruit drink prepared by brewing dried flowers of hibiscus( Sudanese rose).It has the ability to moderately lower blood pressure - with the presence of an initial arterial hypertension, but with normal blood pressure tea consumption does not lead to significant changes in the indices. The maximum pronounced hypotensive effect of the drink develops with its systematic use in small doses and with observance of certain brewing techniques.
Also in some situations, karkade tea raises blood pressure - in particular if you drink a large amount of a drink at once, use very hot tea or combine it with other drinks and plentiful food.
Why karkade reduces pressure
In Egypt, where karkade is a national drink, it is attributed to its healing properties in respect of almost all ailments and problems. Including useful karkade and for pressure. Due to what he is able to lower blood pressure, and why it, unlike black tea, is recommended for hypertension?
The hypotensive effect of the drink from the Sudanese rose is due to its following properties:
- The high content of biologically active substances - vitamin C and anthocyanins with an action similar to the action of vitamin P. They strengthen the vascular wall, making it more elastic and resistant to fluctuations and sharp increases in blood pressure,which reduces the risk of complications in hypertension and hypertensive crises.
- Karkad is not really a tea - it's an infusion of dried flowers. Unlike black tea, it does not contain tannin, which means that it does not have an obvious toning effect, it does not increase the frequency and increase the strength of the heart beat and does not increase the pressure.
- Presence of potassium necessary for normal operation of the heart and prevention of arrhythmias in the presence of arterial hypertension.
- Infusion of hibiscus flowers contains substances that have an antispasmodic effect - it lowers the tone of blood vessels, expanding them, which contributes to a drop in blood pressure and better circulation of blood in tissues.
- The drink has a pronounced diuretic effect, which not only eliminates swelling, but removes excess fluid from the body, thereby lowering blood pressure.
- Warm and cool tea has a sedative( calming) effect, reduces nervous tension, contributing to the normalization of blood pressure and preventing its lowering.
- Prolonged, regular use of carcade helps to reduce weight, which, in turn, has a beneficial effect on the course of hypertension, since excessive stress on the heart is eliminated.
Five rules on how to brew and drink karkade for reducing pressure
Tea will lower blood pressure if it is brewed and consumed in a certain way:
- First of all, the so-called cold brewing is preferred, in which the flowers of hibiscus are filled not with boiling water, but with hot boiled water( temperature not higher than 60 ° C), and then bring it to the ready, insisting on a water bath for half an hour. This technique is much more labor-consuming than standard brewing, but it allows you to save the maximum amount of vitamins and valuable biologically active substances.
- The drink should be consumed 2-3 hours after meals. Before meals, you can drink it, too, but only if you do not suffer from gastric ulcers or gastritis with high acidity, as carcade increases gastric secretion.
- Hypertension is recommended to use karkade in warm or cool form. Hot drinks always lead to increased heart rate and increased cardiac output, which naturally increases blood pressure. And very hot tea, especially drunk immediately after a plentiful supper, raises blood pressure, and in hypertensive patients it can even provoke a crisis.
- If after drinking tea brewed flowers are not thrown away, but slowly chew 1-2 teaspoons and swallowed, it will bring even more benefit - pectin contained in them effectively clears the body of toxins and toxins, helps to eliminate cholesterol.
- Like any other medical product, the carcade should be taken regularly, every day, 1-2 cups a day, for a minimum of a month to get a positive and lasting result in terms of pressure reduction. If you want and you can drink it all the time.
It is often possible to meet recommendations that prohibit hypotension use of carcade, because it leads to a decrease in pressure. However, the hypotensive effect of the beverage at initially normal or reduced pressure is very little expressed - carcade, although it lowers the pressure, but very slightly, and provided it is taken occasionally in an amount of 1-2 cups, can not cause a sharp deterioration in the condition. People with normal or low blood pressure will have a moderate diuretic effect, and other properties( vascular wall strengthening, sedation) will also be useful for hypotension, as for hypertensive patients. However, it is not worthwhile to use carcade systematically in hypotension - to avoid persistent diuretic and antispasmodic effects.
