Treatment thought of hypertension determination based on syndrome differentiation in TCM

Hypertension is a syndrome usually involving the liver , kidney and the spleen. It can be caused by wind,fire,phlegm,deficiency and blood stasis. The pathological characteristics of hypertension are deficiency-excess in complexity, deficiency in origin and excess in superficiality. Impairment of the liver and kidney is relate to the origin. The wind, fire, phlegm and blood stasis are the superficiality. Liver wind and liver fire are the most dangerous condition. Hypertension is the pattern of deficiency in origin and excess in superficiality. It’s also the pattern of upper deficiency and lower excesss. The TCM treatment for hypertension is to relieve the secondary symptoms in an acute case, treat the fundamental when the conditions permit, and also treat the principal and the secondry aspects for it at the same time.Treat the illness by reinforcing and attacking methods and combine with tonifying the kidney and invigorating the spleen , emolliating the liver, extinguishing wind and resolving phlegm, and activating blood and unblocking collaterals. While undergoing treatment,the health-care should be pay attention to.