Hibiscus and Reduced Blood Pressure

• Acute effects of Hibiscus sabdariffa on blood pressure and cognitive function.

  • 2025-02-26
  • RCT
  • Nutritional neuroscience 28(9)
  • • Lucy Ellis
    • Stephania Aragón-Rojas
    • Louise Dye
    • Christine Boesch

  • PubMed: 40009760
  • DOI: 10.1080/1028415x.2025.2462944

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  with no change in blood pressure

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  not stated (beverage containing hibiscus)

• Hypertension treatment with Combretum micranthum or Hibiscus sabdariffa, as decoction or tablet: a randomized clinical trial.

  • 2020-09-18
  • Review
  • Journal of human hypertension 35(9)
  • • Angélique Bourqui
    • ElHadji Atou Boye Niang
    • Bertrand Graz
    • ElHadji Assane Diop
    • Mohamed Dahaba
    • Issa Thiaw
    • Khady Soumare
    • Philippe Valmaggia
    • Renata Campos Nogueira
    • Anne-Laure Cavin
    • Marwah Al-Anbaki
    • Sidy Mohamed Seck

  • PubMed: 32948827
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41371-020-00415-1

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Blood Pressure

  • Low evidence
  • Clinical

  After 6 months, target blood pressure of <140/90 mmHg was attained by 49% of patients with bissap, 51% with kinkeliba and 40% with captopril.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Dose

  2×375 mg/day (tablet) or 10 g/day (brew)