Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 93
ISBN/UPC (if available): NA
Description
Blood Pressure is fast becoming something in the nature of a universal malady. In the West especially high blood pressure with its concomitants like apoplexy, paralysis, etc., is assuming menacing proportions and the medical profession seems to find itself helpless to cope up with this dire enemy of human health and welfare.
But for the gravity of the threat to human life held out by High Blood Pressure and the almost invariable fatality ultimately resulting from it one may be inclined to remark in jest that blood pressure has come to occupy the position of the foremost "fashionable disease" of this century.
Above a certain age the average man is almost certain to have blood pressure complication in some degree or other as a part and parcel of his declining health picture. Though knowing quite a lot about the actual ‘condition’ called blood pressure yet the doctors all over the world seem hard put to lay their finger upon the exact causative factors responsible for bringing about the specific "condition". Nor have they been quite successful in finding suitable, rational, effective therapeutical agents to overcome radically this complaint.
This book will certainly provide very important and valuable knowledge on the subject, the possession of which is bound to be extremely useful both to the patient as also to the doctor, who needs the former’s intelligent cooperation all along, if his treatment is to be rewarded with any measure of success.
A valuable feature of this work is the psychological and spiritual hints we have included in it for the attainment of subtle, inner strength, sound and serene mind and a state of radiant vitality by the earnest seeker after health and well-being.
This book goes forth to do its mite in the cause of the all-round, i.e., the physical, mental, intellectual and ethical welfare of mankind.
Contents
Publishers' Note
Der-Nier cri in Cure
Mahamrityunjaya Mantra
Health and Long Life
Mental Health
CHAPTER I –
Introduction
CHAPTER II –
The Heart at Work
The Heart
The Heart at Work
CHAPTER III
The Controlling Factors
CHAPTER IV
The Phenomenon of Blood Pressure
The Curse of Humanity
Sphygmamonameter
The Ausculatory Method
Blood Pressure
CHAPTER V
Blood Pressure in Health
CHAPTER VI
Blood Pressure, Its Cause and Cure
Cause of the Disease
The Initial Stage of the Disease
CHAPTER VII
Ayurvedic Treatment for Blood Pressure
Useful Diet for the Patient
The Herbs ‘Serpentine’ and Its Utility
CHAPTER VIII
Naturopathic Treatment for Blood Pressure
Symptoms
Remedies
CHAPTER IX
How to Live with High Blood Pressure
General Hints
Enjoy Life Moderately
Longevity Possible
CHAPTER X
General Hints on Treatment (Contd.)
Blood-Pressure: And Hose Pipe
Hints on Modern Treatment
CHAPTER XI
Homeopathic Treatment for Blood Pressure
CHAPTER XII
Means for Good Health
Fear Victimises More Lives Than Disease
The Farmer and the Snake
CHAPTER XIII
Low Blood Pressure
Hypotension
Blood Pressure: Definition, Causes and Treatment
Treat yourself for Blood Pressure
A Window on Blood Pressure
CHAPTER XIV
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
Definition
Classification of High Blood Pressure
Aetiology of Essential Hypertension
Symptoms
CHAPTER XV
Health for All
What is Health
Good Health
Health and Happiness
Health and Hygiene
Vital Facts about Health
Health and the elements
Health and Diet
A Message for the Medical Conference