The Causes Of High Blood Pressure - Part 1

If an attempt is made to cure any physical disability it becomes much more simple if the cause or causes of the trouble are fully understood.

There is a form of high blood-pressure which unfortunately is not associated with any other physical upset, and this is called essential hypertension. It arises seemingly within the glandular system, although it may have other associations with certain organs; in spite of all tests it is impossible to determine what is actually upsetting the system. This presents a baffling problem which has been treated from many different angles without any striking result.

In Nature Cure, however, we have an advantage, because it is appreciated that it is impossible to understand everything that occurs within the systems of the body. We also know that if the proper conditions can be created, the healing vitality that is within the body will always attempt the cure. This is a very comforting thought, and it means that we can treat essential high blood-pressure—that is, high blood-pressure without any definite cause--successfully by general Nature Cure methods.

These, although they are applied to high blood pressure, can be used with benefit in every form of ill-health, and they give the Nature Cure practitioner a very great advantage over any other type of practitioner. It is the practitioner's duty to explain how obedience to the laws of Nature leads gradually to health through the workings of the healing vitality.

Please notice that this is a lasting but not a quick cure. Very few people understand that they become ill over a period of years; they believe that such-and-such a trouble only started a week or a month before. Ill-health is a progressive state and begins whenever we start ill-treating our bodies. It, may be years, however, before serious symptoms become apparent. In these circumstances it is impossible to regain health quickly, but each month of treatment sheds a certain depth of illness, and gradually the patient returns to health. This is what happens in every case of high blood-pressure which is at all curable. A slow but definite improvement is desirable because spectacular cures are seldom beneficial in the long run.

One definite cause of high blood-pressure is some form of scarring of the arterial wall. This scarring is usually
brought about by some poisonous matter getting into the bloodstream and causing inflammation. It may be due to poisoning from lead, tainted food or even excessive medication. It can also arise from chronic alcoholism and over-indulgence in tobacco. Whatever the cause of the inflammation, the end-results are always the fame, namely, and when this heals a scar tissue formation is left.