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This is a difficult question to answer, as there is no "one size fits all" treatment for high blood pressure. There are three basic types of treatment for blood pressure: lifestyle treatments, prescription medication, and herbal medicine.

Which method of treatment is best depends on many factors, including the underlying causes of the high blood pressure, and risk factors of various complications or side-effects. Lifestyle treatments are generally the best, and are recommend for everyone. These include modifications to diet, such as avoiding processed foods, sugar, alcohol, and caffeine, increasing aerobic exercise, and lowering stress levels.

Prescription drugs can be very effective for lowering blood pressure, but they are generally less safe than other approaches, and they do not address the underlying causes. A beta-clocker's, such is Inderal(propanolol) is is especially helpful if you also have difficulties keeping your HR <100, Linisopril is what I take to keep my diastolic in check, and now there is a new one, bystolic, intended to work on both systolic and diastolic. Prescription meds are a last resort, generally recommended only when a person's blood pressure is so high as to be life-threatening, and other treatments have not been effective enough.

Herbal treatments are generally not quite as powerful as prescription drugs, but tend to be much safer. Hibiscus tea is one particular treatment that has received extensive scientific study, and has even been found to be as effective as one prescription medicine, the older drug captopril. It is less effective than linisopril, but again, much safer than both of these, as it has been widely used as a beverage for years, and is inexpensive.

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