'Own investigation and research' implies taking personal control of ones body including what one ingests and what one does, literally, physically etc.

Personal responsibility of ones health hence cannot be diluted.

Kusadikika is giving it in a concentrated form.

Its hence upto the reader to mix it for himself right. Others will thoroughly dilute it till it looses value and taste.

If we were to stand by and watch as our parents suffer an ailment, all our parents would be in heaven right now.

Losartan-H when taken well reduces peripheral vascular resistance, and the work the heart does. It reduces chances of damage to the kidneys and the eyes.

Doctors see both the healthy and the sick. They bring life to this world, and watch it as it ebbs away at the end of days.

Glad to note this advice. Thank you Bw. Jguru.

It reinforces what I have learnt about diabetes and HBP in my sojourns and the advices I have heard and noted from health talks and discussions in other fora.

I think Vyk's has got the clearest understanding of this thing. Everyone have their own normal blood pressure and you should only be concerned if it deviates markedly from normal. Now to establish what is normal you have to know what it has always been. One way of doing this is to have measurements of your own blood pressure every hour of every day since you were born. Now this is not possible but you know what it is not necessary because God the creator of the body did not create a sphygmomanometer to check blood pressure instead He put in a more reliable way of knowing if you are OK or not and that is how you FEEL.

At the root of this Doctors' fraud is the desire to turn healthy people into patients. They tell you, "do not rely on what you feel because it is misleading you, you should trust the numbers of our BP machines because they are telling us that you are sick and you need medication."

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?!

And if you are curious to know where this number 120 that we all are supposed to have came from here is a excerpt from a paper titled, "A short History of Blood Pressure Measurement"

"The first truly accurate estimation of the blood pressure in man was made by the surgeon Faivre, in 1856; he connected an artery to a mercury manometer at operation and was thus able to obtain direct readings. He found the femoral artery blood pressure to be 120 mm Hg and the brachial artery pressure to be between 115 and 120 mm Hg. These, and other direct readings, were
of great value in establishing a normal range for blood pressure."

Research ya 1856 using crude instruments on a handful of people and that became the standard for every human being on earth. Upuzi mtupu!!!!

Here is the rest of that article for anyone interested:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih....procrsmed00089-0065.pdf

Doc, what is it about Central Province residents that makes them highly susceptible?

Acupressure and massage therapy, nutrition and herbs, game and dance therapy, and general fitness are some of the alternative and or complimentary ways with which one can take a proactive stance with less financial and psychological burden, and side effects of mainstream medicine.

Sometimes sociological factors can cause low endocrine activity, and dealing with them directly can lead to cure. But this needs a traditional way of looking at the world.

Doctors love to have patients like you @Amores. You have swallowed the myth that is Medical care hook, line and sinker. You live with your body your whole life and then you see a doctor for 15 minutes and he convinces you that he knows everything about your body and you know nothing about yourself.

Everybody who has a body knows something........ no knows a lot about his/her own body. The more you study yourself the better you know yourself. It is the most important study you will ever undertake, study yourself so that you are not deceived.

very true... all the highly qualified, not so qualified, not so ignorant and the very ignorant of the doctors live in wazua... you do not know what to take and what to leave.

Why?

Surely you are not implying certain issues should not be talked about by the laymen, the 'ignorant'?

That is a hard standard to impose that even you will fall foul of sooner rather than later.

I think what you must be having in mind is a disclaimer such as

Surely that is sad.

Did he:

1. Conduct his own investigation and research on this condition

2. Engage in a dialogue with a practitioner who has a syncretic approach to medicine and develop a plan of treatment and management that suits him

3. Integrite the plan of treatment into his worldview. Worldviews are etiological factors.

But the story doesn't end there. Pressure has effects like 'confusion'. Heart failure is a confusion of the heart in relation to other organ 'states'.

It follows that a normal must be sought by doctors.