Abstract
The forward-shift prevention and treatment strategy is the current trend of the development of clinical medicine. As hypertension is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, it is curtail to pay attention to the prevention and treatment of prehypertension. Pre-hypertension refers to the blood pressure value between the normal blood pressure and high blood pressure, which easily develops into hypertension with complications. In recent years, pre-hypertension has attracted attentions both at home and abroad. The traditional Chinese medicinal theory of "preventive treatment of disease" shows its unique advantages in preventing and treating pre-hypertension and high blood pressure. With the socio-economic development and the changes in lifestyle, traditional pathogenetic theories have no longer kept pace with the occurrence regularity of modern high blood pressure and pre-hypertension. Therefore, the in-depth study on the pathogenesis of pre-hypertension is of great significance in the guidance of clinical prevention and treatment. It is believed that the etiologies of pre-hypertension are related to improper diet, sedentariness and emotional instability. In other words, stasis in six forms such as qi stagnation, dyspepsia, damp obstruction, phlegm stasis, blood stasis and fire stagnation is an crucial pathogenesis of pre-hypertension. Consequently, on the basis of the traditional Chinese medicinal theory of "preventive treatment of disease", the combination of the treatment based on syndrome differentiation and the correspondence of prescriptions and the syndromes in treating pre-hypertension is worth clinically promoting and applying.
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