Scientific Proof to How your Body react to Acupuncture - High Blood Pressure
Regular sessions of Acupuncture can reduce stress and lower the blood pressure.
Hypertension (high blood pressure) affects about one billion people worldwide. Moreover, hypertension increases the risk of stroke and heart attack.
Lifestyle changes, such as reducing salt intake, weight loss, and exercise, may lower blood pressure, but it is difficult to achieve and even more difficult to maintain.
Since elevated blood pressure is a chronic condition, any treatment would need to have a sustained blood pressure lowering effect to be effective.
Acupuncture is an important part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and it has been used to treat people with elevated blood pressure (BP) in China for centuries. Presently, acupuncture is mainly used on people with elevated BP who want to avoid drug therapy or regard it as an alternative therapeutic option to reduce dosages of antihypertensive drugs.
The scientific papers below have supported that Acupuncture can help to lower blood pressure.
Conclusion: Systolic blood pressure was more beneficially affected than diastolic blood pressure by acupuncture therapy.
Conclusion: An increasing amount of evidence shows that the effect of acupuncture on reducing BP occurs through various pathways, including acupoints, afferent nerves, the CNS, efferent nerves, and neurotransmitters. Acupuncture, as a general alternative therapy, can be used appropriately to treat hypertension.
Conclusion: After 6 weeks of treatment of acupuncture, it significantly lowered the mean 24-hour ambulatory blood pressures.