Lowering High Blood Pressure: The Three-type Holistic Approach

An alternative, holistic approach to treating high blood pressure

This book offers a tailored and holistic programme for anyone who suffers from high blood pressure, distinguishing between three core types of hypertension: stress type, abdominal type, and chaos type.

Conventional treatments for high blood pressure often fail. Around half of patients who are prescribed medicines stop taking them, often because their doctor hasn't taken a holistic view of the patient's needs and life situation. Other patients feel there is no alternative to a life-long course of pills.

This book offers another way. The authors, including an experienced physician, want to empower the reader to identify which of the three core types of high blood pressure they have. They then outline tailor-made therapeutic programs to care for body and soul, including nutrition, exercise and anthroposophical therapies to suit each type.

The book includes real-life case studies which also demonstrate the huge difference that this holistic approach can make.

Dr Thomas Breitkreuz was Chief Physician in the department of internal medicine at Herdecke Community Hospital, Germany, from 2001 to 2010. Since then he has been Chief Physician at Paracelsus Hospital, Germany. He specialises in anthroposophical medical treatments for high blood pressure and cancer.

Annette Bopp trained as a biologist and is now a freelance medical journalist. Her writing has been widely published in Germany and she leads the editorial board of medical magazine 'Medizin Individuell'.