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Bioelectric Acupuncture Treatment of Hypertension
To some people, it may be a surprise to know that acupuncture can treat hypertension. Acupuncture treatment of high blood pressure has been extensively studied and proven effective by doctors and researchers in Chinese medicine universities and research institutes in China and around the world. Click here to read 19 acupuncture research reports from South Korea, Russia, Ukraine, and China. An interesting example here in U.S is that Massachusetts General Hospital and New England Research Institutes started a program last year to study the effectiveness of acupuncture on stopping hypertension. Read ABCnews and National Geographic reports for more detail.
From viewpoint of bioelectricity, human body is a live electric conductor and the bioelectric activities play a key role throughout the journey of human life. Dr. Bjorn E.W. Nordenstrom, MD, Professor Emeritus of Radiology Karolinska Institute, Sweden further proposed the biologically closed electric circuits theory ("Biologically Closed Electric Circuits", Bjorn, E.W. Nordenstrom, 1983, Nordic Medical Publications). It is believed that the energy exchange in tissue and organ metabolism, the material transportation between blood vessel and cell is accomplished not only through blood circulation but also through biologically closed electric circuits (BCEC). The bioelectric methods based on Dr. Nordenstrom's theory are even used for cancer treatment at St. George Hospital in Bad Aibling, Germany and Chinese-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, China.
In the other hand, there are considerable research on hypertension treatment by low voltage electric stimulation in U.S. Click the list below to read references from referred scientific journals:
1.The effect of transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation in patients with therapy-resistant hypertension. Jacobsson F, Himmelmann A, Bergbrant A, Svensson A, Mannheimer C. (Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Ostra, Goteborg, Sweden)
2.Effect of acupuncture-point stimulation on diastolic blood pressure in hypertensive subjects: a preliminary study. Williams T, Mueller K, Cornwall MW. (Havasu Samaritan Regional Hospital, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403).
3.Long-lasting cardiovascular depression induced by acupuncture-like stimulation of the sciatic nerve in unanaesthetized spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Yao T, Andersson S, Thoren P.
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Endorphin mediated increase in pain threshold induced by long-lasting exercise in rats. Shyu BC, Andersson SA, Thoren P.
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Simple custom-made disposable surface electrode system for non-invasive "electro-acupuncture" or TNS and its clinical applications including treatment of cephalic hypertension and hypotension syndromes as well as temporo-mandibular joint problems, tinnitus, shoulder and lower back pain, etc. Omura Y. (Heart Disease Research Foundation, New York) |
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