Hypertension patients often experience symptoms like dizziness and restlessness. It is recommended that such patients regularly drink lotus seed heart and chrysanthemum tea.
Specifically: Place 5 grams each of lotus seed hearts and chrysanthemum flowers, along with an appropriate amount of tea leaves, into a teacup. Pour boiling water over them, steep briefly, and drink as tea. Prepare one dose daily.
In this formula, lotus seed hearts refer to the dried young leaves and embryonic roots of lotus seeds. They are considered bitter and cold in nature, entering the Heart and Kidney meridians. They can clear the heart and calm the spirit, harmonize Heart and Kidney functions, astringe essence, and stop bleeding. They are suitable for symptoms such as heat entering the pericardium causing delirium and incoherent speech, Heart-Kidney disharmony leading to insomnia and seminal emission, and blood heat causing hemoptysis.
Chrysanthemum flowers possess pungent, sweet, and bitter flavors with a slightly cold nature. They enter the Lung and Liver meridians, dispersing wind-heat, subduing liver yang, clearing liver heat to improve vision, and clearing heat to resolve toxins. They are commonly used to treat liver yang hyperactivity, headaches, and dizziness. Additionally, they clear liver heat to enhance vision and alleviate redness and swelling of the eyes caused by ascending liver fire.Modern pharmacological research confirms that chrysanthemum preparations dilate coronary arteries, increase coronary blood flow, and enhance myocardial oxygen consumption. They also exhibit antipyretic, sedative, and hypotensive effects.
Tea possesses a bitter and sweet taste with a cool nature, entering the Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, and Kidney meridians. Its bitterness promotes purgation, dries dampness, and descends rebellious qi; its sweetness nourishes and moderates; its coolness clears heat, drains fire, and detoxifies. Due to its light and thin nature, it readily ascends to the head and eyes, dispersing heat that clouds the senses, making it suitable for treating dizziness and blurred vision.The caffeine and catechins in tea leaves relax blood vessel walls, widen vessel diameter, enhance elasticity, and increase permeability, thereby lowering blood pressure. The combination of these three ingredients makes it an ideal tea substitute for hypertensive patients prone to dizziness.