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Effect of Red Ginseng on Blood Pressure in Patients with Essential Hypertension and White Coat Hypertension

1998; World Scientific; Volume: 26; Issue: 02 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1142/s0192415x98000257

1793-6853

Ki Hoon Han, Seong Choon Choe, Hyo Soo Kim, Dae Won Sohn, Ki Yeul Nam, Byung‐Hee Oh, Myoung Mook Lee, Young Bae Park, Yun Shik Choi, Jung Don Seo, Young Woo Lee,

Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis

The objective of this study is to evaluate the changes of diurnal blood pressure pattern after 8 weeks of red ginseng medication (4.5 g/day) by 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. In 26 subjects with essential hypertension, 24 hour mean systolic blood pressure decreased significantly (p = 0.03) while diastolic blood pressure only showed a tendency of decline (p = 0.17). The decrease in pressures were observed at daytime (8 A.M.-6 P.M.) and dawn (5 A.M.-7 A.M.). In 8 subjects with white coat hypertension, no significant blood pressure change was observed. We suggest that red ginseng might be useful as a relatively safe medication adjuvant to current antihypertensive medications.