Blood Pressure Drugs

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)

Everything-You-Ever-Wanted-to-Know-About-Blood-Pressure-Drugs...and-How-to-Avoid-Them

2009 Kenting Trip Day 3

Kenting Trip
2009.10.1
Day3

Waking up in the morning, I stood on the balcony admiring the ocean. Today we need to check out and had to say goodbye to Nixon Head. Maybe we were there in the off peak season in Kenting. Many restaurants weren’t opened in the morning. We chose a bar restaurant to have our breakfast, though it wasn’t my cup of tea. 

We drove to the southernmost point of Taiwan (台灣最南點). There was a 500 metre walk on the footpath before we could see a monument located there. Some of us thought it was a long walk. LOL. Obviously, you would think like this when it was too hot. It is interesting to know that the southernmost point is bordered on three sides by water, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Bashi Channel to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the west.