Patients with high blood pressure who are taking anti-hypertensive medication may benefit from adjunctive acupuncture treatment, according to a small study carried out in Turkey. Investigators studied 34 patients who had been on anti-hypertensive drug therapy for at least 24 months and who were experiencing side-effects such as fatigue, dizziness, weakness, headache, joint pain, sleeping problems, oedema and depression. The participants underwent 15 acupuncture sessions (every two days for one month), without alteration to their diet, physical activity or use of anti-hypertensive drugs. Points needled were Taixi KID-3, Taichong LIV-3, Yinlingquan SP-9, Hegu L.I. 4, Shenmen HE-7, Zusanli ST-36, Sanyinjiao...Weiterlesen

An Italian team has found that acupuncture treatment prevents arrhythmic recurrences after cardioversion in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). They studied 80 patients who had persistent AF after sinus rhythm had been restored using electrical cardioversion. Twenty-six subjects who were already on amiodarone (an anti-arrhythmic drug) treatment constituted the AMIO reference group. The remaining patients were randomly allocated to receive acupuncture (ACU), sham acupuncture (ACU-sham), or neither acupuncture nor anti-arrhythmic therapy (CONTROL). Patients in the ACU and ACU-sham groups received ten weekly acupuncture sessions, using the points Neiguan P-6, Shenmen HE-7 and Xinshu BL-15. During a 12-month follow-up, AF...Weiterlesen

Quelle (16 June 2017): http://www.healthcmi.com/ Researchers conclude that acupuncture reduces hypertension and prevents brain damage due to chronic high blood pressure. A controlled laboratory investigation finds acupuncture effective for the regulation of blood pressure while simultaneously preventing excessive cell death in the brain. In a quantification of acupuncture’s effective mechanisms, researchers identified important biological responses elicited by acupuncture responsible for producing therapeutic benefits. The research team of Lu et al. identified biochemical responses elicited by the application of three acupuncture techniques. Reinforcing twirling, reducing twirling, and needle retention techniques resulted in reduced blood pressure and downregulation of cell death in...Weiterlesen

Quelle (21 November 2017): http://www.healthcmi.com/ Researchers find acupuncture effective for the treatment of hypertension in middle-aged adults. In a groundbreaking eight week acupuncture trial, an international research team documents that acupuncture causes significant improvements in both brachial blood pressure and central aortic blood pressure in hypertensive middle-aged adults. [1] The scientific investigation was a collaboration between researchers from Larkin Community Hospital (Miami, Florida), Marymount University (Arlington, Virginia), Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (Russia), and Moscow Financial and Law University (Russia). The researchers note that prior investigations find acupuncture effective for the treatment of hypertension. [2,3] However, they add that this...Weiterlesen