Hawthorn For Kidney Disease And Hypertension

Hawthorn is a healthy food for kidney disease and hypertension. It has significant effects on lowering high blood pressure, blood cholesterol and triglyceride, etc. It can help strengthen the functions of heart and kidneys. It is especially suitable for children patients, elderly patients and those that suffer from digestive problems, indigestion, poor appetite as well as anemia, calcium deficiency, etc.

Kidney disease and hypertension often increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases which are the great threatens to the patient’s life. Hawthorn can help soften and dilate blood vessels, regulating blood pressure and blood lipid, improving heart functions so as to greatly reduce these risk factors and prolong the patient’s life expectancy.

Here are two beneficial diet therapies for strengthening kidney functions, it is simple, effective, natural and safe.

1. Ingredients: hawthorn 50g, white fungus 30g, black fungus 30g and crystal sugar 30g.

How to prepare: put hawthorn, white fungus and black fungus into the pot and boil for 20 minutes. Add the crystal sugar.

Benefits: it is good for the kidneys, heart, stomach, brains and can help prolong one’s life.

2. Ingredients: brown rice 100g, hawthorn 50g, sugar 20g.

How to prepare: put brown rice into pot and then add hawthorn and sugar. Boil for 10 minutes. The delicious and healthy hawthorn porridge will be made.

Benefits: it can help indigestion, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, etc. The curative effects will be more obvious if it is taken for 7-10 days. It should not be eaten on an empty stomach.

However, if renal damages are too advanced or hypertension is very serious, diet therapies are not enough to control the illness conditions. Proper medicines and treatments should be sought with the doctor’s guidance after careful and thorough diagnosis.