Blood Pressure-Some Issues and Traditional Remedical Measures

Human ailments may be classified into communicable and non-communicable diseases. Thanks to the technological advancement in the medical field, many communicable diseases such as cholera, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea, influenza, measles, hepatitis-A, hepatitis-B, typhoid etc are in control to a large extent. In contrast, due to life style disorder, poor diet and environment the number of causalities increases due to non-communicable diseases such as cardio-vascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, dysfunction of kidneys, diabetes, etc. Abnormal blood pressure may be the cause for most of the noncommunicable diseases. Therefore, the authors examined the causes and consequences of abnormal blood pressure and also presented a few traditional remedial measures to over come the same.