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Q. I have been drinking “eggplant water” I made from floating half a dozen thinly sliced pieces of raw eggplant on top of two or three quarts of water in a bowl. I discard the eggplant after a few hours, when it starts to turn brown. I have been drinking 60 ounces of this water daily for about two weeks.
My weight dropped 7 pounds and my blood pressure is down from 150/80 to 124/66. This might be helping my insulin resistance, which made it hard for me to lose weight before.
A. When cells don’t respond efficiently to insulin, blood sugar control is more difficult. Losing weight is also more challenging, but people who shed pounds often lower their blood pressure.
You are not the first reader to mention eggplant water for hypertension, but the previous recipe called for just one ounce daily, not 60. Compounds in eggplant may work like certain blood pressure medicines (ACE inhibitors such as lisinopril) and may also help with insulin resistance (Bioresource Technology, May, 2008).
You will find a number of other non-drug approaches for controlling hypertension along with a discussion of the pros and cons of common medications in our https://store.peoplespharmacy.com/guides/blood-pressure-treatment.html.
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I tried the eggplant water remedy to lower my blood pressure. After drinking 3 or 4 glasses a day for a week, my blood pressure dropped from 150/90 to 124/80 but my husband is concerned about the solanine in eggplant. Do you think this dosage is a risk for solanine poisoning?
PEOPLE'S PHARMACY RESPONSE: THE FIRST SIGNS OF SOLANINE POISONING ARE DIGESTIVE UPSET: NAUSEA, VOMITING, DIARRHEA. IF YOU START TO EXPERIENCE THESE, STOP TAKING THE EGGPLANT WATER RIGHT AWAY. WE HAVE NOT HEARD THAT IT IS A PROBLEM WITH THIS REMEDY.
why can't you produce the same results by just eating cooked eggplant? will cooked eggplant help to reduce hypertension?
I have what is called "essential" high blood pressure, which some Drs. don't believe truly exists. It's when your pressure goes up and down, seemingly for not much reason. Before I did a web search regarding eggplant, I accidentally ran into its benefits. I had a medium sized eggplant on my counter, decided one night to consume it. Sliced it up, floured it, browned it in olive oil, made a gravy out of the browned flour left over in the pan, into which I put some onion, dill, arugula, basil, bay leaf, parsley, rosemary -- chosen simply because that's what I have growing in my pots on my porch!
Consumed the entire eggplant, and some gravy. Happened to take my BP again, and found it had dropped quite a bit. It was up around 200 over 100 before I ate. So I monitored it quite closely. When it got down to 80 over 50 (not foolin' at all!!!), I was beginning to wonder if I should go to the hospital, but I felt fine. It leveled off. Then I did my internet search and was stunned to find out about eggplant being able to lower BP!
So now, in between my meds, if my pressure goes up, I do the eggplant thing a little bit. Works every time! Sometimes it keeps it down quite a long time, and I have to delay taking my medicine, but that type of stuff is risky, and you have to be careful, especially if you have "essential" high BP as I have. I am not sure, in my case, if the herbs are essential, so I am being very careful with trying the process of elimination.
It seems onions play a big part in it all. Also, by VERY CAREFUL MONITORING with a wrist pressure cuff, I have learned a lot of things. Some of the things that make my pressure go up and down, which all seem very logical, is 1) forgetting to take my pill on time, 2) staying up too long, beyond what my body wants me to (I am almost 80 years old), 3) sometimes sugar - sweets of any kind (most sweets have a lot of salt in, believe it or not), 4) sometimes chocolate, 5) stress (of course!), 6) not getting at least 8 hours of sleep, 7) not resting often enough (work full time at Wal Mart in the garden center, VERY active), 8) doing ANY project at break neck speed!, 9) weighing too much (I am 4 ft 11 inches, have weighed 165, now weigh 130, have some to go yet, but the more I lose, the better my BP behaves!, 10) salt! salt, salt, salt! You need some, but mostly it can be a real killer!
So listen up, all you high blood pressure sufferers out there! By the way, just in case you don't understand how high BP can give you the tendency to a stroke, let me explain: Have you ever had one of those long skinny balloons, or any balloon, that you blew up and down and up and down, until it got weak in one spot and a "bubble" would pop out on the side? ... and eventually the "bubble" would burst? Same thing with your blood pressure, up and down, or too high constantly makes your blood vessels weak, until BINGO! .. comes the burst and thus a stroke.
A lot of my friends also do not know what the two numbers in the blood pressure represent. The top one is for the pressure exerted on your veins when your heart beats, and the lower one is the pressure left on your veins when your heart is at rest between beats. Does all this scare you death? It will kill you to death, if you don't pay attention to what you eat, how you behave, and what your doc says! You all have a great day, better yet, MAKE it a great day! God bless you all richly.