Q I'm in my 50s and drink often, and I have high blood pressure, fatty liver, and reflux gastritis. Are these all related to alcohol? Can they be managed together?
A Frequent drinking is a common factor that worsens multiple problems like high blood pressure, fatty liver, gastritis, and high cholesterol together. With moderation and recovery care, you can expect these to improve together.
Detailed Answer
Alcohol raises blood pressure, deposits fat in the liver, irritates the stomach lining, and raises triglycerides, making it a common aggravating factor for many diseases. So cutting back on drinking often improves high blood pressure, fatty liver, gastritis, and high cholesterol at once. However, the key is keeping each disease's existing treatment while managing alcohol, the common root, together. Do not adjust your medications on your own.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
Dongjedang sees these several problems as a connected flow where the heat and damp burden left by alcohol builds up throughout the body. By clearing out accumulated excess and reviving metabolism to ease the burden at the root, we help several symptoms fall into order together, while making clear this is a supporting role that goes alongside each disease's hospital treatment.
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