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Hibiscus Tea Lowers Blood Pressure

Drinking hibiscus tea lowered blood pressure in pre-hypertensive and mildly hypertensive adults in a clinical trial at the Antioxidants Research Laboratory of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, Mass.
The clinical trial tested 65 volunteers, aged 30 to 70 years, whose systolic blood pressure was 120 to [...]