Abstract: 
Hypertension is emerging as one of the severe epidemic disease. Hypertension occurs when blood pressure in the arteries is elevated which makes the heart to work harder than the normal heart. Blood pressure involves two measurement ssystole and diastole which depend upon whether the heart is contracting (systole) or relaxing (diastole) between the beats. The purpose of this review is to study about various causes, signs and symptoms and treatment approaches of hypertension. This article includes pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical approaches to treat hypertension. Awareness about the disease could be the major approach to the treatment of the disease.

Keywords: Hypertension, Herbs, Blood Pressure, Systolic, Diastolic, Heart Rate.