Therapy for patients with high blood pressure

Abstract

E. Zak (Die rztliche Praxis, No. 7, 1929) attaches great importance to mental influences and therefore suggests doctors to be careful in the sense of using terms such as "arteriosclerosis" or "angina pectoris" in front of some patients. Further, making the division of high blood pressure into two groups (stable and labile), the author proposes the following measures: for stable high blood pressure, caffeine in powder or in the form of coffee (for headaches), warns against pyramidon on a lean stomach and recommends well sometimes acting Aleuthan (Pyramiden + papaverin). The food of such patients should be poor in proteins, meat, spices and NaCl. Instead of NaCl, the author proposes a dietary salt (Dit-Salz, consisting of 1-2 g. NaCl and 2-4 g. KCl).