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High Blood Pressure

What is Acupuncture For

High Blood Pressure?

Acupuncture is effective in reducing blood pressure. This modality can be used as a stand-alone therapy or along with antihypertensive medications—in which case the dosages of the medications can be reduced significantly—and this helps to reduce the side effects of medicines.
Chronic Pain

Symptom Relief

Most people with high blood pressure have no symptoms, even if blood pressure readings reach dangerously high. You can have high blood pressure for years without any symptoms.

A few people with high blood pressure may have:

  • . Headaches
  • . Shortness of breath
  • . Nosebleeds
  • . Dizziness
  • . Difficulty breathing.
  • . Nausea, vomiting.
  • . Blurred vision or other vision changes.
  • . Anxiety.
How Does

Acupuncture Work?

For hypertension, acupuncture may help regulate your blood pressure by acting on the hormones associated with the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS). This system keeps blood pressure levels and balances your fluids and electrolytes.

In particular, acupuncture may change how the hormones and enzymes in your RAAS show up in your blood and stimulate receptors in your body that regulate blood pressure.

Can Acupuncture Reduce

High Blood Pressure?

Acupuncture is effective in reducing blood pressure. This modality can be used as a stand-alone therapy or along with antihypertensive medications—in which case the dosages of the medicines can decrease significantly—and this reduces the side effects of the drugs used.
What are

other acupuncture techniques?

Instead of needles, other forms of stimulation are sometimes used over the acupuncture points, including:
  • . Heat (moxibustion)
  • . Pressure (acupressure)
  • . Friction.
  • . Suction (cupping)
  • . Impulses of electromagnetic energy.
What alternative treatments are available for

High Blood Pressure?

Acupuncture may help you manage primary hypertension, especially if it helps according to the results, acupuncture appeared to significantly lower both systolic and diastolic blood pressure for the women who received acupuncture.

What To Expect

During An Acupuncture Session

Each person who performs acupuncture has a unique style, often blending aspects of Eastern and Western approaches to medicine. To determine the type of acupuncture treatment that will help you the most, your practitioner may ask you about your symptoms, behaviors, and lifestyle. He or she may also closely examine the following:
  • . The parts of your body that are painful
  • . The shape, coating, and color of your tongue
  • . The color of your face
  • . The strength, rhythm, and quality of the pulse in your wrist
An acupuncture session may take up to 60 minutes, although some appointments may be much shorter. A common treatment plan for a single complaint would typically involve one or two treatments a week. The number of treatments will depend on the condition being treated and its severity. In general, it’s common to receive 6 to 8 treatments.
During The

Acupuncture Treatment

Acupuncture points are situated in all areas of the body. Sometimes the appropriate points are far removed from the area of your pain. Your acupuncture practitioner will tell you the general site of the planned treatment and whether you need to remove any clothing. A gown, towel, or sheet will be provided. You lie on a padded table for the treatment, which involves:

Needle insertion.

Acupuncture needles are inserted into various depths at strategic points on your body. The needles are very thin, so insertion usually causes little discomfort. People often don't feel them inserted at all. The typical treatment uses 5 to 20 needles. You may feel a mild aching sensation when a needle reaches the correct depth.

Needle manipulation.

Your practitioner may gently move or twirl the needles after placement or apply heat or mild electrical pulses to the needles.

Needle removal.

In most cases, the needles remain in place for 10 to 15 minutes while you lie still and relax. There is usually no discomfort when the needles are removed.

Uses of

Acupuncture

Acupuncture may help regulate your blood pressure by acting on the hormones involved in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS). This system keeps up level blood pressure and balances your fluids and electrolytes.

Risks

As with any treatment, acupuncture may cause side effects in some individuals. Side effects may include:
  • Pain and bleeding from the needle insertion
  • Nausea
  • Infections
  • Dizziness

Results

The benefits of acupuncture are sometimes difficult to measure, but many people find it helpful as a means to control various painful conditions.

Several studies, however, indicate that some types of simulated acupuncture appear to work just as well as real acupuncture. There’s also evidence that acupuncture works best in people who expect it to work.

FAQ's

Does acupuncture release pressure?
Image result for benefits of acupuncture for high blood pressure Acupuncture reduces both the intensity and perception of chronic pain. It does this through a process called “descending control normalization,” which involves the serotonergic nervous system. Acupuncture relaxes shortened muscles. This gradually releases pressure on joint structures and nerves and promotes blood flow.
Which acupuncture point reduces Blood Pressure?
The Taichung point is one of the most common acupoints for hypertension. To stimulate it through acupressure: Find the space between your big toe and the toe next to it. Using a finger, feel for the groove between the bones, or metatarsals, that extend in the direction of your ankle.

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