The 'funny juice' is called 'green juice' and making it, like making other juices and meals, is an art.

Natural, and traditional medicine isn't made up of neem, or garlic, but is a comprehensive philosophy that combines different therapies to effect healing. Like in this case the green juice is only a standard therapy supposed to be taken 'always' and by 'everyone'. Other treatments should have followed a proper diagnosis.

Having said that, I must confess that despite the many posters of 'Daktaris from Tanga or Abuja' a true traditional doctor is hard to come by. More often than not the practitioners use 'conventional' philosophy and back it up with muarubaini and the like.

@Kusadikika:
No stones here! I appreciate your healthy skepticism about blood pressure and mainstream medicine’s approach to treating it and other conditions. Enyewe there are docs that hand out some of these meds like they were peremende. My mom had high sugar due to an infection. She ended up with a blood sugar lowering med, a blood thinner, cholesterol lowering medication, in addition to her usual blood pressure meds, all with their kilometer-long side effects, She refused all except the blood pressure one.

That said, modern day treatment of high blood pressure is informed by an American long-term population research study called the The Framingham Heart Study and other studies like it. This study started in 1948 and followed normal people over their lifetimes, measured their blood pressure over the years and noted who got heart attacks, strokes and so forth and how those conditions were linked to the blood pressure. Those with higher blood pressures got more strokes and heart attacks. Dunno if this fits your standard for research, but it’s the evidence used to inform current practice for treating high blood pressure.

The reason docs worry about prehypertension or high normal blood pressure is because the Framingham study showed that it has a 90% chance of leading higher blood pressure. Few docs will give you a med for this unless you have other issues. They will ask you to see a nutritionist so you can lose kitambi, eat more beans, greens and hit the gym and quit masigara, kiruru etc….

Kusadikika wrote:

There is almost no research in medicine now that is done to establish normal. I will dare all doctors here in Wazua to quote studies that have been done on healthy people who are on no medication to try and establish what is normal. This would be important so that you can have normal readings for different ages, weights, race, tribe and gender. Everyone is supposed to have the same number, have you ever heard such upuzi?!

My 2 cents.
Ever since Parallel degrees were introduced, many view studying Medicine as an investment and this to me, has watered down the quality of healthcare. How else do you recoup 1M+ spent on fees.

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