If you are hypertensive or have high BP, green vegetables, fruits and cereals must make constitute the main course of your diet. Drinking the juice of bottle gourd or wheat grass on an empty stomach first thing in the morning helps a great deal in improving the constitution of the bowels and also enhancing the blood chemistry.

These juices are also help to bring down cholesterol, besides enabling you to lose weight gradually. Avoid fried and stale food. According to Ayurveda, food must be consumed fresh.

Yoga Exercises for BP Patients

Although pranayama is the main course of treatment for hypertension and BP, yogasanas or physical exercises help expedite the regulation of blood pressure.

You can perform the following exercises before or after AV and KB. You may also perform them in between any two 5-minute sessions of either AV or KB. Except a few, you must perform all the asanas on an empty stomach or at least five hours after a full meal.

Sit on the mattress in a relaxed posture, with your eyes closed. Stretch out both the legs while keeping them joined together. Keeping your back straight, stretch both the arms, while holding your hands together. Try to bring them as close to your feet as possible without bending the legs. From this position try to you’re your hands in a circular pattern, much like a potter moves while rotating his wheel.Make 10 circular motions each clockwise and anticlockwise without bending your arms or legs.

This exercise tones up the muscles of the stomach and the intestines, thus helping reduce the inches of adipose in case you are overweight and have high BP too. If your weight is normal, this exercise helps the entire body and the vital organs to relax.

Touch the tops of your shoulders with all the fingers of your respective hands and make circular motions with the elbows. Try making as big circles with the elbows as possible. Make 10 such attempts clockwise and anticlockwise each. This exercise helps strengthen the rib cage and the entire musculature around the heart.

Hold your feet with your hands, with the soles joined together. While in this position shake the legs like a butterfly flaps its wings. Known as the butterfly posture, this exercise helps relax the pelvic region. Hold your feet as close to your body as possible. The position strains the thigh muscles; try to touch the mattress with the outer surfaces of your thighs.

Stretch out your legs while keeping them together. Place your hands on either side of your hips, with your arms straight. With the feet joined together, move them together in circular motions in all possible directions, stretching the muscles of the ankles, the feet, and the calves. This exercise relaxes all the said muscles and improves blood circulation in the lower body.

Lock the fingers of your hands and hold one of your elbows close to the back of your head. Hold the other elbow close to the shoulder, in front, along the chest. Repeat this position on the other side of the head and the other shoulder. This exercise helps relax the shoulder and back muscles.

Lie down on your back with your eyes closed. Space your feet comfortably and place the arms along the sides of the body, with the palms facing the ceiling or the sky. This is called the shava aasana or dead posture (shava is Sanskrit for corpse or dead body). Focus on feeling relaxed by loosening the muscles of the toes, to begin with. From the toes, now proceed to feel the entire feet relaxing, and in this way loosen up your entire body gradually thus and remain in the position for 3-4 minutes. The practice of shava aasana is known to relax the body, so much that you can recover from the fatigue of an entire day within a mere 10-15 minutes. A practitioner of yoga, a yogi, therefore normally does not need to sleep more than 3-4 hours in a day.

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