A doctor monitors the blood pressure of a patient inside the hospital. Image: stockvisual/Istock.com via AFP Relaxnews
MANILA, Philippines — Does drinking pineapple juice, eating garlic, and putting your medicine under your tongue help control high blood pressure?
Philippine Heart Center cardiologist and secretary of the Philippine Society of Hypertension (PSH) Gilbert Vilela disproved such home remedies and branded them as “myths,” more so “nonsense.”
“There is no direct relationship between pineapple juice and blood pressure control,” Vilela said on Tuesday during a virtual briefing organized by PSH to mark this year’s May Measurement Month.
“Lalo na yung kumain daw ng bawang, that is not true also. ‘Wag ka din maniniwala sa sinasabi ng iba na maglalagay agad ng gamot sa ilalim ng dila,” Vilela added.
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(Especially the advise to eat garlic, that is not true also. You should also quit believing of putting your medicine under your tongue.)
“That’s a myth, you do not do that, sometimes it may cause more problems,” he explained. “We should stop that nonsense.”
