How does beet affect pressure - increases or decreases? Folk recipes and recommendations for use

Beetroot is a very good root vegetable for the human body. Moreover, the "tops" and "roots" are useful. It has been established that beetroot helps to clean the blood and strengthen the walls of blood vessels, useful in combating anemia. And, of course, beetroot helps to cope with high blood pressure.

Traditional medicine offers many recipes, including effective in the treatment of hypertension. To beet had only a beneficial effect and did not bring harm, you need to know how to cook and use it with increased pressure.

Can root influence on blood pressure or not?

As a result of international studies, a positive effect of beet juice on blood pressure was revealed. The scientists found out whether the juice of this vegetable increases blood pressure (hereinafter referred to as BP) or, on the contrary, reduces it. Raw red beet juice contains:

1. Nitric acid salts - nitrates of a special type. Once in the body, they turn into nitric oxide, which relieves the spasm of blood vessels, their walls relax, this is reflected in pressure.
2. Potassium improves heart activity and prevents arrhythmia.
3. Magnesium reduces not only pressure, but also the excitability of the nervous system.

The action of beets is aimed at changing the indicators of upper and lower blood pressure.

We told more about the healing properties of beets here, and from this article you will learn about the chemical composition of the red root, as well as how it is useful and harmful to human health.

How does it affect - raises or lowers?

Does an ordinary root vegetable really help with high blood pressure? Studies have shown that beet juice does not raise, but on the contrary, gently reduces blood pressure. With daily consumption of red beet juice, blood pressure can drop by 6―11 points. The maximum effect appears after 2–6 hours. The action persists for a day.

Contraindications to use to reduce blood pressure

Benefit or harm will bring treatment beet juice, also depends on whether a patient with hypertension has contraindications to the use of this tool. It is contraindicated to take beet-based products to reduce pressure in the presence of the following problems:

1. Urolithiasis disease. The presence of beets in the diet can trigger the release of stones.
2. Kidney disease.
3. Gastric and duodenal ulcer. High concentrations of oxalic acid and vitamin C can cause seizures.
4. Increased acidity in the stomach.
5. Flatulence, indigestion, tendency to diarrhea. The impressive content of fiber in the root crop will aggravate the existing problem.
6. Gout, rheumatoid arthritis. Beetroot treatment can be harmful due to the high concentration of oxalic acid in its composition.
7. Osteoporosis. Calcium, contained in large quantities in vegetables, is not absorbed. Its accumulation can lead to unpleasant consequences.
8. Diabetes. Beet juice contains a lot of sugar.
9. Allergy to beets.

Attention! You can not take money from beets with hypotension.

Particular caution should be exercised in the presence of an allergic predisposition to red vegetables.

Step-by-step instructions on how to prepare and take against hypertension

In folk medicine, you can find different versions of recipes for the treatment of hypertension with red beet: kvass, tinctures, a mixture with carrot juice and other vegetable fresh juice. For the preparation of means it is better to take fresh vinaigrette, bright red beets, without veins inside. Vegetable should be hard, without cracks. The ideal raw material is a root vegetable grown on the garden plot.

Kvass Recipes

With spices

Ingredients:

• beets - 2 or 3 pieces;
• warm boiled water - 2―2.5 liters;
• raisins - a big handful;
• dried cloves - 2 pieces.

Raisins can be replaced with two tablespoons of sugar.
Cooking:

1. Take a 2 or 3 liter bottle with a wide neck.
2. Wash and clean the roots.
3. Finely chop or grate.
4. To fill with water.
5. Add raisins and cloves.
6. Cover the bottle with a breathable cap or wrap the neck in gauze. This will allow excess carbon dioxide released during fermentation.
7. Leave for three days in a dark place at room temperature.
8. Strain brew through cheesecloth.

On rye bread

Ingredients:

• beets - 2―3 pieces;
• rye bread - 50 grams;
• boiling water;
• sugar - 1 tablespoon.

Cooking:

1. Rinse beets and peel.
2. Cut into bars.
3. Place the bars in a three-liter jar so that the beet layer takes up one third of the capacity.
4. Pour boiling water, not reaching the neck.
5. Add bread.
6. Pour sugar.
7. Cover the neck with gauze.
8. Put the jar in a dark room.
9. Regularly remove the foam that forms on the surface of the mixture.
10. In four days, the brew will be ready. By this time, the drink should become transparent and acquire burgundy color. Strain kvass.

Keep refrigerated. The course of treatment: Drink half a glass of kvass three times a day before meals. You can add to the drink one teaspoon of honey. The duration of treatment is two months.

We invite you to watch a video about cooking kvass on rye bread using a different recipe:

Beet Juice

Ingredients: raw beet medium size - 3 pieces.

Cooking:

1. Wash under running water and clean the roots.
2. Cut into quarters.
3. Place the juicer in the bowl.
4. Turn on the juicer for five ― six minutes.

You can make a drink in another way - using a blender or grater. Then squeeze the juice through gauze (more on how to prepare and take the juice from the beets, you can find here).

Hold the fresh juice in the fridge for two hours without closing the dishes with the lid. Remove the foam with a spoon. Strain the drink and pour into a clean container. Keep refrigerated. Preheat to room temperature before use.

A course of treatment. How to drink beet juice for hypertension? Start treatment better diluted juice. To do this, you can mix settled fresh and boiled water in equal volume. The resulting drink to take half a glass three times a day before meals. An additional benefit is the combination of beetroot juice with other juices: carrot, apple, cranberry, grapefruit, orange, pumpkin or tomato.

You can dilute the juice with kefir or liquid honey. Honey and juice taken in equal proportions, take a mixture of 1/3 cup three times a day for two months. With strongly elevated pressure, the treatment is recommended to be extended.

Beetroot and carrot juice drink

Ingredients:

• medium beet - 1 piece;
• carrots - 2―3 pieces.

Cooking:

1. Prepare beet juice.
2. Keep at least two hours in the refrigerator.
3. Wash and peel the carrots.
4. Cut vegetables, get liquid using a juicer. Or you can use a blender or grate carrots, then squeeze the juice through cheesecloth.
5. Mix beetroot and carrot fresh. First observe a ratio of 1:10. At a time, consume no more than 50 ml. Gradually increase the concentration of beet juice in the drink. When the body gets used, you can mix the ingredients in equal parts and drink in the intervals between meals during the day, as well as before bedtime.

The course is two months.

More about the benefits and harm of beetroot and carrot juice, as well as how to make such a drink and take it, read here.

Tincture with cranberries

Ingredients:

• beet juice - 2 glasses;
• fresh juice of cranberries - 1.5 cups;
• liquid natural honey - 250 ml;
• juice of one lemon;
• Vodka - 1 cup.

Cooking:

1. Mix beet and cranberry juice.
2. Add honey
3. Squeeze the juice from the lemon.
4. Mix.
5. Pour vodka.
6. Insist on three days.

The course of treatment: drink one tablespoon of tincture three times a day for an hour before meals. Take no longer than two months.

Tincture with honey

Ingredients:

• beet juice - 1 part;
• natural honey liquid - 1 part;
• dried dried marsh - 100 g;
• vodka - 0.5 l.

Cooking:

1. Pour the juice into the bottle.
2. Add lozenges and vodka.
3. Cap the container tightly.
4. Insist 10 days.
5. Strain.

Course of treatment: take two dessert spoons of tincture three times a day before meals. The course is two months.

Fresh vegetables

Ingredients:

• beet juice - 1 part;
• pumpkin, tomato, carrot, cabbage, zucchini or cucumber juice - 10 parts.

Cooking:

1. Leave fresh beet juice for two hours in a container without a lid.
2. Mix with other juices.

The course of treatment: Drink the mixture three times a day before meals, starting at 50 ml. Gradually increase the portion. When the body gets used, you can drink half a cup twice a day. Treatment lasts no more than two months.

Possible side effects

• Freshly squeezed beet juice has a very strong effect on the body. It can cause malaise, headaches, vomiting, diarrhea. To prevent these unpleasant phenomena, you must follow the rules of preparation and application of the tool.
• It is strictly forbidden to exceed the dosage indicated in the recipe. 100 ml of fresh beet juice before meals can lead to dizziness, nausea, and even peptic ulcer.

Beets have shown their effectiveness in the fight against high pressure. At home, it is quite simple to prepare a folk remedy from this vegetable. Take this drug should be carefully, given the characteristics of the body. It is important to remember that we should not neglect the qualified treatment that can only be provided by a cardiologist.

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