YES! Check out my other posts. In a nutshell, my dad SWEARS by garlic & Apple cider. He adds these 2 into almost all of his foods. He actually drinks a teaspoonful of apple cider every morning. He's been weaned off comletely of one of his meds, and his other bp med has been reduced to 25 mg once a day. Not bad at all! He also has a treadmill & a medical device called the resperate to help lower his blood pressure. ANYTHING to avoid pills!!!
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My grandmother told me about that old home remedy of Apple Cider Vinger to lower blood pressure. Make sure your not buying the one that's used for cooking, because that's very harsh on the stomach. Health food stores and places like GNC have the drinking kind, that called apple cider vinegar mother's core. And they also have the herbal pills. Try drinking it daily with lots of water, and try to get that bottom number down some more.

The explanation is farely simple. Apple pectin is a natural circulatory health boost. It helps your body clean its own veins and arteries out. Vinegar is a natural metabolism boost, its very acidic, so your body speeds up the metabolic process to get the vinegar out of the stomach (thats how all metabolic medicines work). You could get the same result from eating a couple apples with a chili pepper too. Or apple with Guarana extract. Vinegar is just very soft on the stomach. The higher metabolism gets the apple pectin moving quick through your body because of increased blood flow, therefore delivering more pectin to more areas before it has time to decay. This same method also helps in weight loss, because as your metabolic rate speeds up your body needs sufficient energy to boost itself, using carbohydrate reserves(fat) to fuel the fire. In the process reducing the amount of reserve needing to be maintained, which reduces strain on the heart.

In other words, Apple cider vinegar is probably the best method for health and circulatory control. An apple a day keeps a heart attack away.

I suggest getting the tablet extract form. I get mine at wal-mart, target, any health food store anywhere. Its listed as a weight loss diet, but don't think its anything like ephedrine. Far different. Its a lot easier to carry around and take, plus I always found it pretty hard to swallow down any type of vinegar. Mind you eating a real apple and drinking real vinegar is the method with the best results. The tablet form works for me. Anyway. Hope I was of some help.

ACV isn't bad if you use a sweetener like Stevia. I have tried several flavors of it, and am currently using the Lemon drop flavor. Very nice and lemony. I buy mine from amazon grocery.

I take between 2teaspoons-1 tablespoon a few times a day. With the stevia (between 4-8 drops)and 8 ounces of water. I notice when I don't take it, that my joint pain comes back, so it also works as an anti-inflammatory.
Buy the Braggs brand or any other that show "Raw organic apple cider vinegar." You can buy it at most health food stores, Whole Foods, Wild Oats, even in some supermarkets 'health food' section.

Important note: If you take the ACV, do not take that aspirin a day. The ACV helps thin the blood, the way the aspirin does, so you don't need both. And long term use of the aspirin a day makes the stomach bleed, and that's never good.

Apple cider vinegar really works for hypertension. I am not on any medication, therefore my doctor asked me to use diet to reduce my hypertension.I started using apple cider vinegar, 2tablespoon to a pint of water for three days.On 14/4/09 my blood pressure went from 136/97 to 167/89. I know that the top reading is a high but the bottom is remarkable. Today 30/4/09, the nurse congratulate me, it is now 140/80.I started to use 1 table spoon in a glass of water three times daily and in the morning I add one clove of crushed garlic with a dash of cayenne pepper. My body feels great.Any other suggestions?

To all of you who took the time to post a reply on this site, bless you. Presently, I have no health insurance and have High Blood pressure. I will try apple cider vinegar and hope for the same results all of you have experienced. Again, thank you.

A fair question by the OP but unrealistic to see a systolic change of 20 mm as meaningful during a busy day.
Mine can vary by at least 30mm - BP needs to be done at the same time and conditions every day for some time to gauge effects.
On the ACV thing I tried a 'clear' one from Health Food Store that said it could be taken as a tonic- I took a tsp in a smoothy and that was ok but when taken in apple juice ,with all the fibre in, was far too sharp and made my throat rather raw.
Didn't feel right- was this just starting pains??

wow!!!!
i have a large jug of apple cider vingar because i read about the great things it does, its suppose to help you loose weight also.
now i m going to ignore the taste and start taking it again.

Hi trv,
I don't think you actually used pure apple cider vinegar(with the Mother) which is dark and should be diluted one tablespoon in a pint of water. This can even be a little rough on the throat if not properly diluted. I suspect that you might have used ordinary vinegar which can be extremely rough on the throat. Try Braggs Pure apple cider vinegar.

Yeah Samdy- I don't think this 'mutha' had the 'mother' though the shop where I got it is very good usually.
But for the tonic thing on the label I wouldn't have bought it.
Substituting it back by using with pressed apple didn't do the trick.
I will try H B for the real thing, or maybe order online in the end -and look out for Braggs if available in UK.

I started taking acv a week ago. One teaspoon in a small glass of water. I've found that drinking it through a straw, thereby bypassing the teeth and most of the tongue makes it easy. So far I have definately noticed a marked reduction in appetite, especially for sweet things incuding alcohol.
Will wait another week before I weigh myself but am confident of weight loss.
Also, I have just checked my pulse rate. It was 58, as opposed to 68 two weeks ago.I feel this is beneficial as far as blood pressure is concerned.

Some of you wanting to lower your blood pressure using raw organic apple cider vinegar(ACV) such as Braggs brand, or Spectrum have to realize that you must make other changes as well. Like cutting down on salt which is #1. Plus watching what you eat and cutting out the high saturated fatty foods, and exercising daily even if it's just walking a half hour after a meal in the evening.
You will see great results if you implement all of the above, plus reduce your stress levels.

I also take a Hawthorne supplement a few times a day. It helps with circulation problems. Plus now and then some Dandelion extract. That tastes great mixed in some water.
The ACV is best with a little sweetener such as liquid stevia or honey or agave nectar. Whichever you prefer. Helps it all go down smoothly and tastier.

Back in 1974 I was very sick with a strep throat, which created complications with Kidneys.
I learn't the only effective prevention of Streptococci
Bacilus is to include Apple Cider Vinegar every day in your diet. This was discovered effective in the prevention of Strep in Cows milk, back in the early 1900's, following
ACV in cows diets, in Vermont, USA.

I've heard good things about apple cider vinegar and use it myself as a part of a salad dressing. The point I want to make is the actual blood pressure readings. The drops recorded in these posts is not very spectacular and does not necessarily indicate success with this or that cure.

Blood pressure readings are never very accurate and can only show a range. A BP monitor can change have a variation of as much as 10 points up or down even though the person's actual blood pressure has changed a bit.

Of course if you consistently read over 145 systolic or over 105 diastolic then it's time to pay attention and act.
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Aliante did you know our bodliy fluids (blood & amnionics) are as salty as the ocean, in actual fact if we don't have these natural salts in our system we run the risk of having strokes & causing brain damage. My reason for bringing this to your attension is this; most supermarket salt is extracted of all other minerals & treated at high heat temps which changes any minerals left to a different molecular structure in which we can't absorb cellularly so instead our body stores away anything it cant eliminate as fat. This is one reason where salt causes bp to rise among other things, the other reason is our body can't eliminate the salts if there is not enough fluids to pass through the cellular level so in fact salt will act as a cleanser & be eliminated from the body when we hydrate correctly with clean quality water. I have lost 49 lb of weight using salt & a alkalizing diet where i consumed high levels of calories of the correct nature & correct hydration & no exercise, my BP fell from 150/80 to currently 118/62 there is an exact proceedure for this & attempting this without propper guidance is not advised. Go study my posts & you will find more on this & other subjects that are here only to help people research there own nutrition

I do know the difference with supermarket salt and natural ones. I do use some salt on my food, but I buy the natural rock salt from France and grind it myself. Too much salt is bad for Blood Pressure, most anyone knows this.
Since my first post in 2007, I have evolved to better things in my weight loss efforts and in lowering my blood pressure. I eat a whole food plant based diet. I still take the ACV once in awhile but I now take hawthorne berry supplements exclusively and I walk for at least 1 hour every evening. The walking alone will lower your blood pressure. The hawthorne keeps the circulation going.
I have found now that i have to lower my hawthorne berries down to 1 supplement 3 times a day. Before it was 2 supplements 3 times a day. Since the weight has been dropping off, in the first month i lost 5 lbs a week, now I just lose 2 pounds a week.

So no thanks, I will pass on the salt regimen. I found something that works much better for me and it's easy, just lace up the walking shoes, grab a bottle of water, go outside, put one foot in front of the other, walk as fast as I comfortably can and walk as far as I can. Repeat daily.

Grocery store pharmacy automated blood pressure cuffs are supplied by pharmacuetical companies. They started showing up when the market was flooded with effective blood pressure medicines. I've never found one that doesn't read my BP about 10-20 points higher than a doctors office visit. You should allways have BP tested by a trained professional using calibrated equipment.

Aliante ,YOUR MISSING THE POINT it's not the salt causing high bp it's the lack of water, my bp dropped & natural salt is alkalizing which is a protection factor against cancer. Too much exercise can cause weight gain if we don't hydrate correctly.

How do you figure too much excercise can cause weight gain if we don't hydrate correctly? Are you talking about water gain after dehydration?