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Arpit Gupta, Lalit Singh, Ritesh Kumar Tiwari, Shashi Verma, Fabrication of an herbal tea: natural remedies for treatment of hypertension & atherosclerosis, ASIO Journal of Pharmaceutical & Herbal Medicines Research (ASIO-JPHMR), 2020: 6(1), 50-60.

Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, Shri Ram Murti Smarak College of Engineering and Technology, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

DOI :10.2016-19146535/ ; DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/06.2020-78537165/

ABSTRACT:

Hypertension is a widespread trouble facing a lot of people’s today, although billions of dollars are spent annually for the treatment and recognition of cardiovascular disease, current conventional treatments have done little to reduce the number of patients with hypertension. Alternative medicine offers an effective way to decrease the rising number of people with high blood pressure. Research has found a variety of substitute therapies to be flourishing in dropping high blood pressure including diet, exercise, stress, management, supplements and herbs. Different strategies developed to relieve the risk factors covering gene therapy, synthetic antioxidants, vitamins and drugs, but atherosclerosis is still a leading cause of death worldwide. Actual aim of this project work was to prepare mixtures of powders from natural origin, most commonly collected from plants or herbal and also from biological sources to treat the hypertensive patients, and that will be supplied with in a tea bag, they can easily intake it just like a tea. Drinking of anti- hypertensive herbal tea (fabricated with various mixtures of powder like, arjuna bark, cardamom, ginger, garlic, sarpgandha, cloves etc.) instead of regular tea may very helpful for the ability to help reducing the  high blood pressure and combat hypertension and keeps the heart healthy and fit and a good start of day with numerous other health benefits. Goodness of Honey and widely acceptable flavor of cardamom which are also medicinally for treating hypertension plays a very significant role in providing taste, flavor and fragrance makes it a pre-eminent anti- hypertensive herbal tea.

Keywords: Herbal tonic, Hypertension, Curcumin, arjuna, cardamom, garlic, High Blood Pressure

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