MEDICINAL PLANTS COMBATING AGAINST HYPERTENSION Authors: Patel S , TANDEL F AND CHAKRABORTHY GS
ABSTRACT
Plants are well known from the ages for treating various diseases and healing all the aliments
as because of their lesser side effects and highest acceptability. The relationship between
human beings and nature is an old age process since the civilization which has gained its
importance slowly and rapidly now its roots are strengthen in every part of the continents.
Plants are being used in the treatments like diabetes, ulceration, inflammation process, wound
healing, hypertension and many more. One such silent disease is hypertension which people
are facing more in this current era. Research has found a variety of alternative therapies to be
successful in reducing high blood pressure including diet, exercise, stress, management,
supplements and herbs. Nowadays, diseases like cardiovascular are at highest prevalent in
mankind and their treatment is at highest priority because of the mechanism. Among
cardiovascular diseases, hypertension is a serious cardiovascular disease and the mortality
rate in the patients with this disease is nearly twice than the normal population. It
significantly contributes to increase in sudden death which is seen by intensified risk factors
such as smoking, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia. Hence in order to control Herbal
medication are used as they possess very lesser side effects, Some Plants like Punarnava,
Garlic, Ginger, Arjuna, Ginseng are being widely used in controlling the pattern of
Hypertension still it becomes a concern. Hence this review will be a breakthrough in
identification of Herbal plants or its formulation associated with it to control the deadly
disease.
Keywords: Hypertension, Herbal plants, Blood pressure, Phytoconstituents Publication date: 01/05/2022 https://ijbpas.com/pdf/2022/May/MS_IJBPAS_2022_6074.pdfDownload PDFhttps://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.5.6074