Besides Being Good For Diet, It Turns Out That Celery Can Also Be A High Blood Pressure Drug

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JAKARTA - It turns out that celery can not only be used as a flavoring and aroma in cooking. In fact celery has good benefits for people with high blood pressure. Maybe we often find celery as a kitchen ingredient to complement food dishes. Although now there are many healthy lifestyle movement groups that make celery juice for daily consumption.

Not only delicious as a complementary food, celery has a variety of good health benefits. One of them is effective in lowering high blood pressure.

High blood pressure is a condition where the heart will work so hard to pump blood throughout the body that can cause a person to experience headaches to heart disease.

Launching from the hellosehat.com page, a study found that consuming celery juice could lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure in people with hypertension.

Not only that, celery seeds are also able to lower blood pressure based on research conducted by the Natural Medicine Journal, as reported by the Herstory page, Thursday, August 12.

Celery is good for people with hypertension because it contains apigenin and phthalates. This substance is a flavonoid compound that has antioxidant properties that can prevent constriction of blood vessels and slow down heart pressure. So that blood pressure can be reduced.

Phthalates in celery can also relax and relax the muscles of the blood vessels which is certainly good for lowering blood pressure in the body.

Indeed, celery is rich in good nutrients to lower blood pressure including potassium, iron, magnesium, fiber, and vitamin C. For example, the potassium content in celery functions to balance sodium which is one of the causes of hypertension.

Seeing the good properties of celery for people with high blood pressure, it doesn't actually mean that you can make celery the only way. Because it still takes a pattern and a healthy lifestyle such as maintaining food and regular exercise.