Once again I met a patient who took anti-hypertension drugs daily causing a sudden drop in blood pressure to 110/45mmHg today and she felt faint. Isn’t it ridiculous that anti-hypertension drugs are commonly used to prevent from stroke but it actually raises the risk of resulting in a stroke?
Common side effects of anti-hypertension drug include insomnia, tiredness, depression, cold hands and feet, a slow heartbeat, palpitations (feeling your heart beating in your chest), swollen ankles, constipation, headache or dizziness. Impotence may be a problem for some men.
From my perspective, the above symptoms of these side effects are the traditional appearances of “yang qi deficiency”. You can simply understand the theory as a loss of basic body energy in such condition.
What can I say? I always advise my patients to think twice about the side effects before taking anti-hypertension drugs for their whole lifespan.
Read the following passage if you want to briefly know how the drugs do something to our body. (…though advertising purpose in the treatment part)
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