Treatment of essential hypertension with homoeopathy- an overview

Arterial pressure is essential for sustaining life, at the same time, an elevated blood pressure can be most inimical to life, if persisting over a period of time. In more than 95% of cases, a specific underlying cause of hypertension cannot be found. Their condition is referred to as essential hypertension. Now a days, in the name of modernization, present day generation has brought about a lot of changes in life style and environment. These external forces interact with mental and emotional state of a person to produce certain degree of stress which has made “TENSION” become one’s friend in day to day modern life. People are pushing themselves harder at the price of their health with target-oriented jobs and competitiveness making life more sophisticated. Lifestyles have become sedentary and people are developing unhealthy habits like smoking and drinking from an early age. This is making individuals more vulnerable to illness. Hypertension is common, asymptomatic and leads to lethal complications if left untreated. So early the hypertension detected, more the chances to prevent organ damage. Here we are going to discuss the existing literature and work done in the Essential Hypertension condition and also the effectiveness ofHomoeopathic treatment.