High Blood Pressure: Natural Remedies & Diet Solutions

Lowering systolic blood pressure naturally involves a combination of safe exercise, cooking oil choices, and natural remedies like apple cider vinegar. Learn which foods to avoid when taking beta-blockers for hypertension.

Herbs That Would Act As a Natural Beta Blocker

Published Aug,14 2017 | By Janet Contursi

Beta blockers are conventional drugs that block the stress hormones that trigger the “flight or fight” response. These hormones place demands on the heart muscles, nerves and blood vessels throughout your body and can contribute to disorders such as anxiety, hypertension, glaucoma, angina and cardiac arrhythmias.

What Herbs Are Similar to Metoprolol?

Published Aug,14 2017 | By Janet Contursi

Metoprolol is a conventional drug prescribed for hypertension, angina, arrhythmia and heart failure as well as to prevent heart attacks. It relaxes blood vessels, slows your heart rate, improves circulation and lowers blood pressure.

Janet Contursi has been a writer and editor for more than 23 years. She has written for professional journals and newspapers, and has experience editing educational, cultural, and business articles and books. Her clients include Gale Publishers, Anaxos, Vielife and Twin Cities Wellness. Contursi earned her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, where she studied cultural anthropology, South Asian languages and culture, and art history.