KONTAN.CO.ID – JAKARTA. High cholesterol triggers the emergence of disease complications if left unchecked. Here are 5 natural cholesterol remedies that you can make yourself at home.
High cholesterol levels are dangerous for your health. Because, high cholesterol can trigger various diseases such as heart disease and stroke.
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For your information, high cholesterol makes a hard pile of fat in the blood vessels. These fat deposits can block blood flow in the body.
Launching from a book entitled Complete Herbs to Conquer Disease by Prof. H. Hembing W, high cholesterol is caused by a number of factors such as consumption of foods containing saturated fat and high cholesterol, obesity, lack of exercise, stress, and smoking.
You need to know that high cholesterol can be prevented by adjusting your diet, eating foods that contain high fiber, exercising regularly, quitting smoking, and consuming alcohol.
For those of you who already suffer from high cholesterol, prescription drugs are an option to make cholesterol levels return to normal.
If you do not want to take chemical drugs, herbal ingredients from natural ingredients can help lower high cholesterol.
Just so you know, there are many natural ingredients that have high cholesterol lowering properties.
The following herbal ingredients are effective in lowering high cholesterol that you can make yourself at home.
1. Lemon and garlic
Lemon contains vitamins A, B1, B2, C, bioflavonoids, pectin, and phosphorus which are beneficial for lowering high cholesterol. While garlic contains allicin which can shed cholesterol and fat in the body.
Combining lemon and garlic can help reduce high cholesterol significantly when consumed regularly.
Quoting from Kompas.com, how to make cholesterol-lowering herbal drinks from these two ingredients is quite easy.
You prepare one cup of garlic juice, two cups of lemon juice, one cup of ginger juice, and one cup of apple cider vinegar.
You put all the ingredients in a saucepan and cook for 30 minutes. After that you chill. Then, you add two to three cups of honey.
You squeeze two fresh lemons and chop two cloves of garlic and then blend until smooth.
You put the lemon and garlic into the cooked ingredients and mix well.
You transfer the herbs into a glass bottle and put it in the refrigerator.
You drink the herbal concoction one tablespoon every morning before eating. You should take this herbal concoction for three weeks.
2. Ginger with garlic
Quoting from Sajiansedap.grid.id, garlic contains antioxidants that can improve blood flow and maintain heart health. While the content in ginger can lower bad cholesterol in the body.
To make a cholesterol-lowering herbal concoction of ginger and white onion is quite easy. You put in a blender four cloves of garlic, one piece of ginger (3cm) then puree.
After that, you add eight glasses of boiled water, 125 ml of lemon juice, and one cup of honey. You strain the herbal ingredients and store them in a closed glass bottle for five days.
You drink the herbal concoction on an empty stomach or before eating. You should not consume this drink for more than two weeks.
3. Ginger with honey
Launching from Tribunnews.com, ginger mixed with honey is efficacious in lowering high cholesterol in the blood.
In addition, ginger with honey can help lose weight if consumed regularly and not excessively.
4. Wedang uwuh
Launching from Tribunnews.com, wedang uwuh is effective in helping lower high cholesterol.
For your information, wedang uwuh is a warm drink made from herbal ingredients, namely ginger, clove leaves, dried cinnamon leaves, dried nutmeg leaves, secang wood, and rock sugar.
You can make your own wedang uwuh at home and buy the ingredients at traditional markets.
How to make this warm drink is quite easy. You burn the ginger and then geprek until flat. You cook the water until it boils then add the boiled ginger until the juice comes out.
Then, you add the cloves, clove leaves, cinnamon leaves, nutmeg leaves, secang wood shavings, and rock sugar.
You boil all the ingredients for 15 minutes then cool. You can filter or not according to taste. You drink wedang uwuh regularly.
5. Lemongrass, ginger, and brown sugar
A mixture of lemongrass, ginger, and brown sugar is effective in lowering high cholesterol. Just so you know, ginger can help lower bad cholesterol and triglyceride levels obtained from unhealthy foods.
You can choose one of the five herbs to be consumed regularly.
Keep in mind, you should consume these herbal drinks according to the dose so as not to trigger side effects. Good luck.
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