Can Acupuncture Lower Your Blood Pressure?
Acupuncture is an ancient and respected form of treatment of a variety of ailments. Practiced for thousands of years in the east is still a controversial but accepted form of treatment here in the West. But can acupuncture lower your blood pressure?
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.
How Acupuncture Can Lower Your Blood Pressure
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 Fengchi 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.
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Thank You.
I am presently in the UK, but am South Africa. Of Irish
and Celtic orgin, I am a Celt so believe in things esoteric
Ex professional soldier, one time aircraft designer, now a
film concept creator,
Over time I have occasionally studied the ancient ‘art’ of healing, and believe in the fact that some can pass on
healing by touch and ‘mind’-mesaging.
Certainly I can endorse the concept of using the pressure points for producing great results, such as netrualizing
long-term migraine and emoving stress from others, and
sometimes self.
The UK is a Western country which has the distinction of having the most highly stressed, mentally tortured and
unrelaxed countries in the Western World, perhaps due to its up-tight and woeful governmental style !
I believe it is for this reason that alternative healers,
Shiatsu, Reiki, the ‘laying on of hands’,spiritual healing and contact massage are officially regarded as suspect by
a government which , regardless of political persuasion of
the ruling party, will automatically acquire the style of the Inquisitorial orders of earlier times,like the
Sanhedrin at the time of Christ and the Courts which
condemned the Cathar Healers at Montsegur, and in
what was kindly called the Dissolution by England’s
Henry VIII. This was no gradual change of religion but
the mass genocide of a large part of the puopuation which followed the Roman Catholic faith which had created the
centres of learning,human development , the sciences and
healing , with the World’s first ‘hospices’ the leper
colonies and the schools whch were teaching the sciences
and knowledge of Ancient Egypt, by way of the Greek and
Roman rulers which the Romans had brought to Europe.
England has many fine but gaunt ruins which were once great
cathedrals, convents, hospitals, centres of learning and
other buldngs of great beuty and function, laid to waste ,
while Europe still proudly has its fine ancient sites and cathedrals and have enlightened govermments which have
populations facing the same problems as the British, but
have enlightened approaches which result in far happier
national outlooks.
I mention this because I feel that the UK as a whole needs
a re-awakening in terms of its shocking popouation health decline, and responsible nations need to get together to
help it in the interntional interest.
The British government has a current anathema toward those of us who dare to live longer that 65. We are regarded as a burden, and with the way thinking is going I can see
a kind of ‘gentle’ ‘gerricide’ coming.
Coming back to ‘touch’ healing, it has immense value- and does work, even though almost outlawed in the UK. It needs
a serious research program in a country which has led
in making war throighout the World.
Kind Regards Rory. Thanks for the great report , Keep up the good work.
The points recommended in your blog do reallly work – we
do have the capability
Hypertension is classified as either primary (essential) hypertension or secondary hypertension; about 90–95% of cases are categorized as “primary hypertension” which means high blood pressure with no obvious underlying medical cause.:,-`
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