Acupuncture and

Hypertension

Sticking it to High Blood Pressure

with Acupuncture
Acupuncture

Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the

world - based on the concept that disease results from
disruption in the flow of qi and imbalance in the forces of yin
and yang.
High blood pressure cures are not part of traditional
acupuncture
Research into acupuncture techniques as high blood
pressure remedies progresses.
Research into High Blood Pressure
Remedies
University of Texas Southwest
Medical Center (2004)
Eleven patients with normal to
mild hypertension received
electrical acupuncture
No evidence of persistent, long
term blood pressure reduction.
Stop Hypertension with the
Acupuncture Research Program
(SHARP)
192 participants with untreated
moderate to severe hypertension
Three treatments: individualized
traditional Chinese acupuncture,
standardized acupuncture at
preselected points, or invasive
sham acupuncture
No benefit was detected.
On the Positive Side

Susan Samueli Center for American Journal of

Integrative Medicine (2007) Hypertension (2009)
showed acupuncture can Evaluated eleven
help normalize blood acupuncture trials,
pressure. including Chinese and
slow onset and prolonged German results
effect Overall results were
lowered elevations in mixed.
blood pressure by as Significant reductions at
much as 40 percent eight weeks
Consider acupuncture a potential high
blood pressure remedy?

There are no blood pressure cures. But

acupuncture remains a possible - and for
many patients a viable - part of their
complementary treatment regime.

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