Prescription: One or two bulbs of garlic with a mixture of sugar and vinegar is taken

each morning before breakfast.

Explanation: This mixture can reduce high blood pressure.

Recipe 2: Celery 100 g, 5 layers of onion, 5 cloves of garlic, 5 water chestnuts, and 1

tomato.

Prescription: These five ingredients are boiled in four bowls of water on a low flame

until one bowl of soup is produced for oral administration before going to bed.

Explanation: This recipe may produce a quick effect to control hypertension. The garlic

also can reduce serum cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Hypotension

Recipe: Ginger.

Prescription: Clean fresh ginger with the skin peeled may be taken.

Explanation: The intake of fresh ginger may produce a good effect to treat hypotension.

Chewing 1g of fresh ginger may raise systolic blood pressure by 1.5 kPa and diastolic

pressure by 1.9 kPa on average. Ginger tea or a soup of vegetables, bean curd, pork or

chicken with plenty of chopped ginger may produce a good effect in treating hypotension.