Your High Blood Pressure Medicine – How Does it Work?
Thursday, December 15th, 2011The obvious answer is that drugs play a major role in educating the Western doctor.We assume that everything can be cured with a pill. Physicians of the East to a more holistic view of the body and try the body as a system rather than to treat a single disease. Somewhere in between is probably the best way to treat high blood pressure.
But you know how your medication works?
Thiazide diuretics. This is usually the drug of choice to start. The idea is to rinse, sodium and lower levels of total fluid in the body by the pressure. Thiazides also offers a degree of protection for heart attacks and strokes as well. Literally millions of people are on this medication.
ACE inhibitors are designed to limit lead in the production of hormones, the constriction of blood vessels. The idea is to drop that restriction means less pressure. Human ACE inhibitor Capoten, Altace and PRINIVIL.
II receptor blockers block the hormone angiotensin, which can expand the blood vessels in response to pressure on the walls. It works very well in extreme cases of high blood pressure. Brands include Cozaar, Benicar Diovan.
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