Cold weather is bad for blood pressure.

Many patients with hypertension have this experience. Blood pressure is easy to control in summer, but difficult to control in winter. In autumn and winter, the patients in the hospital are mainly patients with blood pressure problems and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Why?

From the perspective of modern medicine

1. When the outside temperature drops, the human body is stimulated by cold, sympathetic nerves are excited, and catecholamines are secreted, which leads to systemic capillary contraction and increased peripheral resistance.

2. Sweat is obviously reduced in cold weather, and then sodium excretion is reduced, and sodium in the body is relatively increased. These reasons will lead to high blood pressure. The survey shows that the incidence of hypertension in cold areas is higher than that in warm areas.

From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, the fundamental reason for the increase of blood pressure is that the meridians are blocked, and the lower deficiency is the upper excess.

1, blood pressure is the phenomenon that the heart pushes the blood to run in the meridians, and the blood running in the veins is full of meridians. Therefore, excessive yang, excessive restlessness, tired heart, acute blood, thin pulse, blood blocking meridians and blood vessel swelling will all lead to increased blood pressure and slippery pulse.

2. Abnormal operation of viscera and qi, resulting in internal stagnation of water and dampness; Or blood stasis, blood in the pulse, blocking collaterals, leading to blood stasis block, swelling of meridians, leading to increased blood pressure and large pulse.

Chinese medicine believes that the increase of blood pressure is most closely related to the kidney. Kidney has yin and yang. Deficiency of kidney yin can't nourish liver yin, yang is hyperactive, qi and blood go up, collaterals are blocked, and blood pressure rises. Kidney yang is the basis of human yang. Yang deficiency of kidney, yang can't reach the outside, and the warming and tonifying effect is lost, so the pulse is tight and the blood pressure can't reach the outside.

Chinese medicine believes that the heart is overworked; Phlegm-dampness is abundant and blood is full; Poor qi movement, weakness of defensive qi and venous block are all factors that increase blood pressure.

Analysis of the relationship between body temperature and blood pressure

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the increase of blood pressure is related to deficiency of essence and excess of essence. The imbalance of the five zang-organs is due to the deficiency of essence and qi, and the stagnation of phlegm and blood stasis is due to the excessive essence and qi. Both of them work together, leading to an increase in blood pressure.

Deficiency of five zang-organs, disorder of qi-flowing, and unsmooth movement of body fluid and qi-flowing, which leads to the condensation of body fluid into phlegm, stagnation of blood stasis into blood stasis, mutual resistance of phlegm and blood stasis, and unsmooth blood vessels, which blocks qi-flowing, leading to an increase in blood pressure.

1, cold leads to depression, cold leads to inward contraction of five internal organs and qi, blood vessels stagnate and blood pressure rises;

2, the cold weather leads to the decline of the gasification function of the five internal organs, which is more likely to lead to endogenous phlegm and blood pressure;

3. In winter, kidney is in season, the weather is cold, kidney yang is easy to lose, blood vessels lose temperature, and blood pressure is easy to stagnate;

4. In winter, water is strong and fire is weak, heart fire is weak, and the function of heart main blood vessels decreases, which will also lead to compensatory increase of blood pressure.

From the point of view of modern medicine, the essence of hypertension is the increase of arterial intravascular pressure and the pathological changes of arteriosclerosis caused by it. Modern medicine aims at lowering blood pressure in the treatment of hypertension. As a result, blood pressure dropped and rose, rose and fell, and after a lifetime of tossing, it still lowered blood pressure.

Traditional Chinese medicine treats both the symptoms and the root causes of hypertension. Grasping the core pathogenesis that leads to high blood pressure, improving the balance of yin and yang in five internal organs, dredging meridians, resolving phlegm and promoting blood circulation, and dredging collaterals can naturally avoid high blood pressure. Treatment of hypertension does not require lifelong treatment 2.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the unity of heaven and man, attaches importance to adapting to the weather, nourishing yin when cold, and nourishing yang when hot, so that the yin and yang of the human body can keep pace with the rhythm of the four seasons of heaven and earth, which is helpful for health preservation.