Several years ago, my doctor diagnosed me with high blood pressure, and prescribed me the medicine for it. I know once I start taking these medicine, I will be dependent on it for the rest of life. Surely, this experience is shared by many people. Also my doctor recommended me to take a aspirin a day to help the blood vessel. Needless to say, I did not take the prescribed medicine.

     While at massage school, our teacher measured our blood pressure and found mine to be the highest. The higher number is 148. This really alarmed me, finding a way to lower my blood pressure had become a pressing matter. So how do I lower my blood pressure? Is the prescribed medicine the only way? Is there a principle of physics that would help me? Then I remembered one of the lesson mentioned hydrotherapy.

     The lesson about hydrotherapy discussed about hot shower and cold shower. When taking a hot shower, our blood vessel will expand, when taking a cold shower, our blood vessel will contract. Simple physics. If right after our hot shower, we turn the water all the way cold, the blood vessel will expand then contract. This expansion and contraction provides the best “exercise” for the blood vessel and making them more flexible, and allowing the blood to flow more smoothly inside our body and naturally lower the blood pressure. Then I started taking a cold shower right after I am done with hot shower. Even though it was very discomforting, but I still persisted. And for three years straight, till today, my blood pressure is always normal, well below 130.

     Caution must be taken that, the cold shower should not be to long, if you feel sickly, do not try this.