Mute squash Hypertension

Lemon squash turned out to be useful. Trisno blood pressure and initially surged Endang could return to normal numbers. In fact, only five days, every morning and evening, they drink pumpkin juice.Trisno (49) and Endang (43) are both people with hypertension. Without medication, blood pressure reached 240/130 mmHg Trisno, while Endang 205/120.With generic antihypertensive drugs, the tension man born in Wonosobo and woman from Purwokerto, Central Java, this comes down to 160/100 mmHg numbers only. Although the furniture business that have gone everywhere and various medicinal plants have been tried, the results remain the same.In early January, a customer they recommend to drink lemon squash. The recipe, one squash fresh grated, then squeezed and feelings of water drunk every morning and evening.After five days, their blood pressure dropped to 140/80 mmHg. Until now, complaints hypertensive disorders, such as pain in the back of the neck, frequent headaches, and felt faint again they never experienced. "Doctors only give 2 x 1 / 2 tablet captopril 25 mg per day to keep our blood pressure does not rise again," said Trisno.Who does not know squash? In everyday life, known as the vegetable chayote fruit is healthy. The fruit can be cooked vegetable ve, oseng-oseng, or vegetable acids. Stems and leaves of young shoots used to make fresh vegetable as a friend to eat rice.In Mexico, a year-old tuber used as delicious food after boiling. Not surprisingly, a plant in Central Java is known as the pumpkin jipang, manisah (East Java), pumpkin siamese (West Java), and internationally is called chayote is used as a food reserve for the people of Mexico.Plants are grown people in the field or in the yard. Plant named Latin Sechium edule this Reinw spread and wrapped around the trunk so that need to be planted adjacent to other trees or arbor-arbor provided for the stem can be twisted. This plant is native of South America, the leaf-shaped curve of the hand, while the bell-shaped fruit.
Diuretic effectAccording to the book Sudarman Mardisiswojo Cabe Puyang Heritage Ancestors, a plant in Manado named this Japanese cucumber, the fruit contains vitamins A, B, C, niacin, and a little albuminoid. Because it is cold, if eaten was cool and cold in the stomach.Dr Setiawan Dalimartha, Chairman II PDPKT (Indonesian Doctors Association of Traditional Eastern Health Developer), called the pulp consists of 90 percent water, 7.5 percent carbohydrates, 1 percent protein, fiber 0.6 percent, 0.2 percent ash, and 0 , 1 percent fat. It also contains about 20 mg calcium, 25 mg phosphorus, 100 mg potassium, 0.3 mg iron, 2 mg sodium, as well as some medicinal chemicals."The fruit contain saponins, alkaloids, and tannins. The leaves contain saponins, flavonoids, and polyphenols," said Dr Setiawan.In the book Cabe Puyang Heritage Ancestors, Sudarman just explain that the fruit of this plant is good for canker sores cure the disorder, heartburn, and reduce fever in children because they contain lots of water.That is, there is no explanation of what content can ease high blood pressure.Dr Setiawan suspect, than are diuretics (urine laxative), alkoloidnya content can also open a clogged blood vessel. That's why, squash can reduce high blood.As is known, the urine is much wasted due to diuretic properties of squash, salt content in the blood is reduced, too. Reduced levels of salt that is absorb or retain water will lighten the work of the heart in pumping blood so the blood pressure decreases.Meanwhile, R Broto Sudibyo, Chairman of the Center for Traditional Medicine Development and Application of Yogyakarta, suggested that patients with uric acid disorders in Traditional Medicine Clinic Bethesda Hospital, Yogyakarta, eating squash. According to him, water squash has a good diuretic effects so that the launch of urination. Thus, excess uric acid can be immediately expelled from the body.In addition to gout sufferers, R Broto explained, people with diabetes are also suitable eating squash that has been steamed. The content of the starch filling so that people with diabetes mellitus was no longer the staple food consumed in excess.However, R Broto reminded, not perfect squash concoction given to patients with rheumatoid arthritis because of the nature of the cold even trigger the emergence of symptoms of illness.