Alum pillows can cure high blood pressure

Alum is a very common thing in daily life. But the use of whiteboard is mainly to use it as a water cleaner or with paint. But now many people like to use white hair to make pillows, and use pillows made of alum to treat high blood pressure. I believe many people know that hypertension is a chronic disease that poses a great threat to people's health. So can pillows made of white powder really cure chronic diseases such as high blood pressure?

Pillows made of white sails cannot cure high blood pressure. Hypertension is a disease with unknown causes. Once diagnosed, hypertension generally requires lifelong medication and lifelong adjustments to a good lifestyle. It requires joint participation from both lifestyle and medication aspects. Life should have a regular routine. Low-salt and low-fat diet. Limit salt intake to 5 grams per day. Do not eat high-fat foods. A light diet is important. Eat more high-potassium foods, such as a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits. Eat more high-calcium foods. Control your weight and lose weight if you are overweight. Get appropriate and sufficient exercise every day. Quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption. Don't be nervous or overworked, and avoid emotional fluctuations. Don't stay up late at night and get enough sleep. Combined with drug treatment.

Alum is a waterproof chemical that can be used on pillows to keep them dry.

Alum is cold in nature, sour and astringent in taste, and has a strong astringent effect. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that alum has the effects of detoxifying and killing insects, blasting dampness and relieving itching, stopping bleeding and diarrhea, clearing away heat and eliminating phlegm. Research in recent years has confirmed that alum also has antibacterial and anti-trichomoniasis effects. Some Chinese medicine practitioners use alum to treat diseases such as hyperlipidemia, duodenal ulcers, and hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis.

Alum is not only a chemical raw material used to prepare baking powder, paint, clarifier, mordant, waterproofing agent, etc., but also needs to be refined to become white alum for clinical use, mainly used for clearing heat and eliminating phlegm, detoxifying and killing insects, drying dampness and relieving itching, etc. However, alum is a chemical raw material after all and cannot be used casually. Please do not have excessive contact with such drugs.

Alum, also known as potassium aluminum sulfate dodecahydrate, is a complex salt of potassium sulfate and aluminum sulfate containing water of crystallization. Colorless cubic crystals, often octahedral in appearance, or forming aggregates with cubes and rhombic dodecahedrons. Sometimes attached to the container wall with the {111} face and shaped like a hexagonal plate. It belongs to the α-type alum complex salt and has a glassy luster. Density 1.757 g/cm3, melting point 92.5°C. It loses 9 molecules of crystal water at 64.5℃ and 12 molecules of crystal water at 200℃. It is soluble in water but insoluble in ethanol. Alum is sour, astringent, cold and poisonous. Therefore, it has antibacterial and astringent effects, and can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine. Alum can also be used to prepare aluminum salts, baking powder, paints, tanning agents, clarifiers, mordants, papermaking, waterproofing agents, etc. It can also be used as a food additive. China's largest alum producing area should be Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, accounting for about the world's total reserves

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that alum has the effects of detoxifying and killing insects, expelling dampness and relieving itching, stopping bleeding and diarrhea, clearing away heat and eliminating phlegm. Research in recent years has confirmed that alum also has antibacterial and anti-trichomoniasis effects. Some Chinese medicine practitioners use alum to treat diseases such as hyperlipidemia, duodenal ulcers, and hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis.

Is alum poisonous?

When alum is consumed as a food additive, it basically cannot be excreted from the body and will remain deposited in the human body forever. Its toxic side effects mainly manifest as alum killing brain cells, causing people to prematurely develop symptoms such as brain atrophy and dementia, affecting people's intelligence but having little effect on life.