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Acupuncture is an ancient and respected form of treatment of a variety of aliments. Practiced for thousands of years in the east is still a controversial but accepted form of treatment here in the West.

A poll of American doctors in 2005 showed that 59% believe acupuncture was at least somewhat effective. As of 2004, nearly 50% of Americans who were enrolled in employer health insurance plans were covered for acupuncture treatments. – wikipedia

Acupuncture involves the insertion of needles into specific nervepoints below the skin. Acupressure works on the same principles as acupuncture except pressure is applied through massage with fingers rather than the insertion of needles.

Below is a list of the main acupuncture / acupressure points believed to “improve your blood pressure” as cited on  www.damazen.com the website of a Dharma-Zen Tai Chi studio in Calgary Alberta.

Yongquan

Located on the mid-line of the sole of the foot, 2/3 of the way forward from the back of the heel. First warm up your hands by rubbing them briskly together. Then use your right hand to rub your left foot. One rub is from heel to toe then back again to the heel. In total rub your foot thirty six times, then switch. After rubbing both your feet, use a thumb to press your foot’s Yongquan point. With medium force and speed, rub in a tiny circle thirty six times. Then stimulate your other foot’s Yngquan point in the same manner.

Baihui

A‘cross-road’ point on the vertex, belonging to the Du Mai channel. It is located at the top of the head, in line with the ears. Hold 5 fingers of each hand into a point, tap at Baihui lightly, alternating hands (left, right, left, right) for three minutes. Once in the morning and again at night.

Fengchi

These points (left & right) are found at the base of your skull where it meets with your spine. They’re commonly used for treatment of the common cold, the flu, headaches, neck pain, regulating blood pressure and blood circulation. Lace your fingers together, thumbs pointing up. Swing your hands to the back of your head so your thumbs rest just below your skull in the little hollows beside the central muscles along your spine. With medium force and speed, rub in tiny circles thirty six times

Well there you have it according to Dharma-Zen Tai Chi. I’ve never used acupuncture myself although I have massaged the Fendchi points cited above to ward off headaches – with good results. There is certainly more to manipulating the nervous system than meets the eye.

Has anyone used acupuncture or acupressure to help regulate their blood pressure? Has it worked? Share the wealth.

I can state that certain diets and exercises can lower blood pressure back to healthy levels without the need of medications. I’m living proof of that fact. For more information on what works see my Alternative Cures Reviews.

Because I run this blog on hypertension and natural cures, every now and then I get emails from people promoting this or that natural remedy to lower high blood pressure. Sometimes they sound interesting.

Here’s an email I got today from Bob Andrews:

High blood pressure runs in my family, so its not that surprising that I developed it too.

My mother, who is diabetic, has had high blood pressure for many years. She went

the conventional route and is on a cocktail of medications. They’re always having to

balance them and every so often it doesn’t work. Her blood pressure shoots up above

200 and they have to do another balancing act to get it back down. She currently

takes 3-4 medications together.

When I found out I had high blood pressure I didn’t want to go down that road.

I’m kind of a take charge kind of guy when it comes to my own destiny, so I didn’t

want to take high blood pressure medications. I don’t want to take any kind of pill

a medical doctor says I have to take every day. I would rather put my body back

in the right balance, so I sought out natural cures.

When you say “natural cure” people tend to think you’re talking about taking

herbs or something like that. But what I found was, you don’t have to do that when

it comes to high blood pressure. It turns out that high blood pressure is the result

of the body being out of natural balance-and you can fix that with simple lifestyle

changes.

See that’s the problem with medications.  Sure they lower blood pressure, but they

do it by fixing the end result. That is they get rid of the symptom but not the cause.

You see, high blood pressure is a symptom that your body isn’t functioning quite

right-its not really a disease in itself. Its really a problem of balance.

Well there are a few basic areas that you can work on. First, let’s talk about

breathing exercises, something I mentioned in a previous email. I can’t

emphasize enough how much breathing exercises help lower blood pressure. This

works because your body is out of balance with stress and tension, and the

breathing exercises help put you back in balance by getting rid of that tension.

Next on my list is getting lots of potassium in the diet. Most adults simply don’t

get enough, in fact some studies say we get half the amount of potassium that

our bodies really need. Potassium balances with sodium to manage nerve and

muscle function and fluid balance in the body. It acts to help the blood vessels

relax. So you can see that potassium helps lower blood pressure.

There are may other examples, but I don’t have the space to go into them here.

But I’d like to make a point before I go. Notice I haven’t mentioned any special

herbs or treatments. Potassium is found naturally in many foods you probably

enjoy like apples and oranges. The point is you can cure blood pressure naturally

without taking any supplements or herbs.

There is no one fix-it cure-all that will work for every single person, although

the breathing exercises come close. That’s why you need to attack on several

fronts if you’re going to utilize natural ways to combat blood pressure. Potassium

and breathing are just two examples.

Best Regards,

Bob

Good morning. And a very good morning it is.

Mornings play  an important part of my diet that has helped me to lower my blood pressure and keep it low.

Here’s how it goes:

I start with a glass of water as soon as I rise from bed. I prefer the carbonated water available in bottles from the store. But that’s just the kid in me. As far as I am aware carbonated water has no greater health benefits than still water.

After my first glass is consumed I pour myself another but with this one I add a squirt (25 – 30 drops) of Hawthorn tincture. It adds a subtle and refreshing taste to the water but it’s not the taste I’m after. Hawthorn flowers and berries act as a vacillator. They relax and widen blood vessels in the most pleasant manner.  One shot in the morning for me is plenty although for bad cases of high blood pressure some three shots a day is recommended.  (I make my own Hawthorn tincture as Hawthorn grows strong and potent up here on the Welsh mountainsides – but I’ll leave the details for another post if anyone is interested.)

So after my two glasses of water I’ll sometimes move to a cup of freshly brewed coffee. Not the decaffeinated variety but coffee straight from the bean – as nature intended. I say ‘sometimes’ because I used to drink coffee every morning as a rule – and lots of it. Now it’s a matter of choice – not habit or compulsion.

Later in the morning as hunger begins to rise its head I prepare a bowl of oatmeal.  As far as I am concerned, oats are the best health food anywhere – not just for high blood pressure but for all around good health. This traditional staple of the Scots.

A study in Chicago found that – in a group of people on hypertension drugs – eating
oat cereal daily for 12 weeks reduced … or eliminated their need for blood-pressure
medication. Dr Joseph Keenan noted that a diet containing soluble fiber-rich oat
cereals … greatly improved control of the patients’ hypertension.

Why is oatmeal so effective in reducing hypertension?

In a nutshell, oatmeal (or even better, oat bran) contains beta-glucan which helps to moderate our blood sugar  and insulin levels. It keeps your body in balance avoiding blood sugar spikes and avoids insulin insensitivity enabling your body to better store magnesium, which aids in the relaxing and expansion of you blood vessels. The results is lower blood pressure. I’m not a trained biologist but that’s how it was explained to me.

With my bowl of oatmeal I take some vitamin supplements currently composing of one multi-vitamin pill (containing magnesium among other things), one vitamin C pill, and one Calcium pill.  I also take some cod liver oil (rich in Omege-3) in gelatin capsules,  some Ginkgo and Ginseng for general well-being as well as lowering blood pressure.

The outcome of this morning diet is another enjoyable day with improved blood pressure and general well-being – better prepared to deal with all the muck that life sometimes throws at you.

This works for me. what Works for you?

Anytime I browse the web for high blood pressure articles I come across a boat load of conformist scaremongering.

It’s as if a party line on high blood pressure had been handed out and everyone is preaching from the same sermon.

The pharmaceutical bosses must be smiling themselves to sleep every night. Sales are good – and increasing.

Here’s an example I came across a few minutes ago form www.naturalproductssolution.com/devastating-effects-of-high-blood-pressure

Devastating Effects of High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure also called hypertension, is elevated pressure of the blood in the arteries. Blood pressure is the measurement of force applied to artery walls High blood pressure has to be taken seriously. It is a serious disease, the cause of which is more or less unknown. What we do know is that left untreated, high blood pressure over time can lead to serious heart disease and other vascular troubles, even death. Health professionals think that there are some genetic factors but as yet they cannot pin down the range of specific genes involved that cause high blood pressure. Studies suggest that people suffering from chronic high blood pressure may come from autonomic nervous system that controls heart rate, blood pressure and the blood vessels.

Detrimental effects of high blood pressure

It is the reason why high blood pressure has been called the “silent killer”. High blood pressure has detrimental effects on many organs like kidneys, eyes, and heart. High blood pressure is the primary cause of death in over 120,000 cases last year and contributes to 75% of all strokes and heart attacks and even more in African Americans. Research suggests that people with mild high blood pressure have three times more likely to have a heart attack as people with normal blood pressure and ten times the normal risk of stroke depending on the severity of the blood pressure. High blood pressure can also cause mental problems such as memory lost .

Fortunately, controlling blood pressure with the proper treatment can reduce or prevent those health complications. Healthy life style is a must for anyone with blood pressure (120/80mm Hg) and above in order to prevent serious complications of that disease.

My response:

High Blood Pressure is not a disease – it’s a condition brought on when a body gets out of balance.

High Blood pressure doesn’t “kill people”. It’s not a ‘thing’ – it’s a measurement. Of course extremely high blood pressure is sign that your circulatory system is approaching collapse. So heed its warnings.

120/80 is the now established ideal blood pressure rating – not a number that everyone can or should try to achieve (no more than everyone should try to force their feet into the ideal sized shoe.)

Anyone can reduce their blood pressure to a safe level (under 140/105) through exercise and diet.

Forcing it down with medications (and possibly suffering undesirable side effects) is not very wise … especially considering that statistically more deaths occur from heart disease and stroke while people are on these medications than those who do no on them.

Unfortunately the medical establishment as a whole has caught on and continue to push pills left right and center.

The answer? Lower your blood pressure naturally. Get your body back in balance through diet and exercise. Get healthy again. If I can do it anyone can.

from: www.newsreelnetwork.com

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Simon Foster

Thankfully there are a number of effective natural cures to high blood pressure being promoted these days.

I know they are effective because I am using them everyday to lower and keep low my otherwise severely high blood pressure.

For a review of cures that work visit my blog review page:

Alternative High Blood Pressure Cures Review

From: sicknessmatter.blogspot.com

Hypertension Dangers

… Now according to an article I recently read on the Internet what I have written above is a load Rubbish as our BP changes constantly (I accept that) and that consistent High Blood Pressure can be a sign of a problem (I accept that), But he then says that lowering Blood Pressure with medication does not do any good and if the Doctor can’t find a reason for the High BP then that is what is normal for the individual.

Well how about that, I should tell you that it was written by a Pharmacist who hates drug companies. But I do agree with one point that he does kind of make and that is that Doctors do tend to dish out drugs very readily, which is a bit suspicious when there is such a high profit in them.

If your BP is higher than normal then that is not normal and for anyone to suggest that this is normal for the individual is crazy. So if you come across the same article then don’t take it in, instead consult a Doctor.

Don’t let High Blood Pressure go untreated, because long term you could have kidney failure or have a stroke or heart attack. Talk to your Doctor about your options.

Simon Foster

Fact: Blood Pressure medications don’t cure high blood pressure. If they did, after you took them you’d be OK.

Unfortunately, hypertension medications only treat the symptoms and not the cause – so you have to take them till you die – which according to statistics will be sooner than if you never took any in the first place!

Thankfully there are pleasant, natural and permanent ways to reduce your blood pressure and risk of stroke and heart attack.

I speak from direct experience – not just theory and studies.

To see my reviews on natural remedies click here: Lower Your Blood Pressure – Natural Cures Review

From: www.lsblog.org

An international scientific study involving researchers from the University of Glasgow has identified eight common genetic differences which may increase the risk of high blood pressure.

The University researchers, led by Professor Anna Dominiczak and Professor John Connell, contributed to the global study of genes in high blood pressure through participation in the Medical Research Council’s British Genetics of Hypertension study.

High blood pressure – or hypertension – affects at least eighteen million people in the UK and is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Although lifestyle factors such as smoking and diet can raise blood pressure, it also runs in families suggesting a genetic link.

The genes identified by the researchers are thought to influence blood pressure in different ways: for example, through the production of chemicals, known as steroids, which affect how the kidneys process salt; or how the blood vessels regulate blood pressure.

Although the effect of each of the new gene variants is small, when combined their influence could significantly raise a person’s risk of stroke or heart attack.

The role of steroid hormones in controlling hypertension is one of the key areas studied within the British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University.

Prof Connell, a senior researcher and Professor of Endocrinology, whose research group has a particular interest in steroids and blood pressure, said: “This latest study increases understanding of the underlying causes of high blood pressure, why some people are more susceptible to it than others and opens up further avenues for research into potential treatments.

“It is important to stress that environmental factors also play a big part so diet, smoking and weight control all important methods of controlling high blood pressure.”

In the new study, scientists looked at the human genome for genetic variations affecting blood pressure. They compared 2.5 million genetic variants from more than 34,000 people with measurements of their blood pressure. They found eight genetic differences linked to changes in blood pressure.

The study, published in Nature Genetics, involved over 150 scientists from 93 centres in Europe and the USA with funding from a variety of sources including the Medical Research Council, the British Heart Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.

Source
Nexxus, Scotland

Simon Foster

The link between genetics and high blood pressure is very convincing and goes a way to explain why some people (such as myself) suffer from extreme high blood pressure while living an otherwise healthy lifestyle.

Some people are simply programmed to have high blood pressure.

This doesn’t mean that it’s OK and isn’t a health risk.

It does mean that we are going to have to work a little harder lowering our blood pressure.

It means we are going to have to do more than simply change our diet and exercise each day.

It means we have to re-program our bodies to function with lower and safer levels of blood pressure.

I have discovered that this re-programming is entirely possible without recourse to prescription drugs and their undesirable side-effects.

From: www.cholesterolrevealed.com

My Blood Pressure is sometimes high but not all of the time,for this reason i dont want to take any medication. I heard garlic suppose to be good for blood pressure. Also i have high cholesterol for many years and it does seem to be going down. I dont eat a lot of fat and dont like dairy product (dont drink milk or like cheese). I do however like to drink half a bottle of sweet wine every day.Is this why my cholesterol is so high. Waiting for your reply. Thanks.

Simon Foster

Response:

Garlic prevents hypertension by blocking inhibitors, producing more nitric oxide gives good control over blood pressure. Eat garlic, raw, everyday.

A study with obese, hypertensive men showed a marked reduction in blood pressure that lasted through the afternoon after drinking just one glass of red wine with the noon meal. (The ethanol and polyphenols in red wine work together to enhance nitric oxide.)

This protective flavonol is especially high in the dark red wines such as merlot,  cabernet, zinfandel,  shiraz, and pinot noir.

Cheers!
Simon Foster

P.S. Get more information on how what to eat and how to live to lower your blood pressure naturally from Kevin Riley’s guide Get Natural! Drop Your Blood Pressure at www.naturalbloodpressure.com

From: www.publishmyself.net/health-and-beauty/natural-remedies/lower-high-blood-pressure-what-your-doctor-didnt-tell-you/

Natural Cure for High Blood Pressure

According to research, exercise is one of the most effective ways to treat high-blood pressure. Doctors though don’t seem to be telling their patients about this connection. A recent study noted that two-thirds of doctors don’t take the time to tell their at-risk patients about what an important role exercise can play in their treatment.

One study showed that when patients increased their activity levels, 71 percent saw a drop in blood pressure. Even moderate exercise such as brisk walking can help. Walking certainly has helped me. I was diagnosed a few months ago with high blood pressure and given medication. After my second visit the doctor said if my blood pressure didn’t come down more, I would have to take additional medicine. I began walking briskly for about 30 minutes five times a week and my blood pressure has come down.

Italian researchers have found that listening to classical, Celtic or Indian music for just 30 minutes a day while concentrating on breathing may also help lower blood pressure. Doctors seem to think that the music helps you slow your breathing which can help you take in more oxygen.

Consuming small amounts of dark chocolate have also been found to be helpful. Don’t overdo because one of the other factors that really seems to affect blood pressure is your weight. If you are overweight even shedding a few pounds helps your entire body. For instance for every pound you lose, you take five pounds of stress off your knees.

Response:

Great to read some good commonsense advice about high blood pressure prevention and cures.

I would just add that along with the dark chocolate a glass of dark red wine everyday is good for the heart and lowering blood pressure.

For the best natural cure guide on the market check out Kevin Riley’s Get Natural! Drop Your Blood Pressure

The new story about the possible link between CMV virus and hypertension has caught on like wildfire on internet world.

From: http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/rss/article/670257

WASHINGTON – Provocative new research suggests that a common virus might play a role in high blood pressure.

The work, by Harvard scientists, so far is only in mice – and the usually symptomless infection is so widespread that proving an effect in people will be tough.

Still, it’s the latest clue that infections may somehow affect a number of the factors that lead to heart disease, from stiffening arteries to obesity.

“There’s likely to be considerable skepticism about this in the medical profession,” acknowledged lead researcher Dr. Clyde Crumpacker, an infectious disease specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

But, “what we would postulate is yes, there can be persistent infection of blood vessels that could be leading to high blood pressure.”

At issue is cytomegalovirus, or CMV. More than half of U.S. adults are infected by age 40, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It’s a lifelong infection but the vast majority will never even know they have it. ……

……

Almost one in three adult Americans, or 72 million people, and almost one billion people worldwide have high blood pressure. It’s a leading cause of heart disease and strokes.

Poor diet and lack of exercise are key risk factors, but doctors don’t understand all of the underlying triggers of hypertension – including why some couch potatoes never get it and some thin, fit people do.

“It’s an intriguing report” that calls for more research into the possible effect, said Dr. Cheryl L. McDonald of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which funded the work.

But she cautioned that any human testing would be years away.

Response:

I wouldn’t get your hopes up about the CMV – hypertension connection as it’s largely based conjecture.

The best way to combat high blood pressure is to lead a healthy lifestyle including diet and exercise.