The last time you were ill and went to your family doctor, did you get a patient hearing? Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. But chances are you were left totally in dark regarding nature of pills and mixtures stuffed down your throat. And what of your illness? Were you in any way enlightened as to its cause, prognosis or even diagnosis. Not likely. Most doctors, while their intentions may be good, are so overworked that they have hardly a minute to spare to deal with you on human level.

Consequently if you enter Internet, millions of people are turning to tens of thousands of health related web sites on Net for information, advise, support and more. It's a great feeling to be able to keep yourself informed on myriad medical problems you may face in life - in some cases, patients are quite happy to help themselves rather than run to doctor at first sniffle. With better-informed patients, doctors can make better diagnosis of illness and doctor-patient relationship could then be on more equal terms.

What role does Internet play in health today? First, it's a medium by which health education can be easily disseminated. Whether you want to learn how your heart works, how to prevent heart attacks, how to recognize onset of a heart attack, what first aid to administer to a heart attack victim, or how to cope with life after a heart attack, you'll find it all on Internet. Through multimedia wonders of web, heart and its beat can be experienced in all its glory.

An area in which web is gaining credence is online medical advice. And in many cases, advice is of extremely high quality, as it is being provided by established experts rather than amateur agony aunts that pop up from time to time in newspaper classifieds. On World Wide Web what you do is read already answered questions in a medical forum or submit a question or two of your own by e-mail and then wait for designated expert at web site to respond.

The Internet has long ago proved that it is an excellent medium for counseling - anonymous face it provides to a troubled soul, through its chat forums and Usenet newsgroups, fabricates a therapeutic cocoon that even a qualified psychiatrist would be hard-pressed to duplicate.

What causes hypertension or high blood pressure? Some people think it's being overweight, stress, salt and a host of other factors.

Here's another idea. Your blood becomes dirty. Normally, dirt is filtered out by liver. But eventually your liver gets dirty too. So your blood can't flow easily through liver, and it gets blocked. Often medical doctors put patients on blood thinners to thin it out to work it through liver.

But problem is, that filter still has to filter. And if it's dirty, it can't do job. So course of wisdom would be to detox and strengthen liver.

Conventional allopathic medicine assures us that there is no cure for hypertension--only control which must be continued for life. Often this control consists of daily medication which is in form of strong chemical diuretics. These chemicals leach potassium out of body at an astounding rate. The leached potassium is then replaced by administration of inorganic caustic chemical potassium which does more harm than good. The kidneys can become overworked by processing of these drugs.

Why not go to cause of hypertension instead of merely treating symptoms? Naturally, we have been provided with herbs and foods that will totally provide for proper chemical balance of potassium and sodium in body, as well as stimulate sluggish livers.