[The comparative efficacy of nondrug and drug methods of treating hypertension]

Effectiveness of some physical therapeutic factors (constant magnetic field, impulse currents) and new hypotensive drugs (tobanum, prinorm, ormidol, minipress, arifon, arilix) was compared in the treatment of essential hypertension stage II. It is suggested that nonpharmaceutical therapy can regulate functions, correct hemodynamic and microcirculatory disorders, produce therapeutic effect without side effects typical for drugs.