How To Treat High Or Low Blood Pressure

Since ancient times, acupuncture is known to be an effective treatment for treating high blood pressure in human beings. High blood pressure is a situation where the blood starts exerting pressure against the walls of the veins, arteries and several chambers of the heart. Over an extended period of time, this heavy pressure of blood begins to damage the lining of the blood vessels. The situation could also lead to arteriosclerosis, the condition that causes the hardening of the arteries.

The symptoms of high blood pressure are often acute in all human beings. They consist of flushed faces, immediate dizziness, painful headaches, difficult breathing, restlessness, nose bleeding, nervousness, depression, bad temper, insomnia, emotional instability and intestinal complaints. The high blood pressure is diagnosed as soon as the normal pressure begins to rise repeatedly. The other corporeal symptoms of blood pressure include the decrease of muscle strength, weaker eye vision as well as the tendency to urinate frequently.

Acupuncture treatments along with electric stimulation can decrease the lower elevations of high blood pressure in human beings. There was a research conducted where the acupuncture needles were inserted on the inside of the forearm or merely above the wrist. Electric current was then being passed through these needles and lower frequencies of such electric stimulation reduced the blood pressure successfully. Another research on acupuncture treatment showed that the needles inserted would excite the brain cells and causes them to release ‘feel-good’ chemicals known as neurotransmitters. These chemicals often increase the heart related activities.

In order to cure blood pressure, several needles are inserted on the forearm; wrist or legs, so as to excite the opioid chemicals located in the brain and lessen the excitatory activities of the cardiovascular systems. Such a decrease in the heart activities and increase in the need for oxygen can reduce the blood pressure greatly. It also helps in healing some of the other heart-related ailments such as myocardial ischemia and hypertension.

At the time of going through acupuncture treatments to cure high blood pressure, some of the other herbs such as Gastrodia Rhizome, Shan Za or Prunella could be used to reduce blood pressure. The juices of these herbs should be injected in order to achieve better results. A unique acupuncture treatment for high blood pressure would also involve the pressing of your skin on the palm between the index finger and the thumb. Acupuncture is available with a range of different variations and is successful on all the patients with hypertension. Unlike the existing myth, the pricking of needles is not painful and the goal of this treatment is to benefit everyone suffering from high blood pressure and other cardiac disorders.

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Slowly but surely the face of healthcare treatment for high blood pressure is changing. The goal, it would now appear as a result of the information provided from a recent study in Canada is that there are significant results to be gained from simplifying the way we look at and treat high blood pressure.

Now this might not appear to be Rocket Science and indeed might actually appear to be quite logical to some but the results of this study if it were to be extended could radically change the way that not only the health care profession views high blood pressure but also the way that we, the patients, view high blood pressure as well.

The other side effect of this particular study was that though the primary focus of the study was purely in relation to hypertension or high blood pressure it would appear from the initial results of this study that it could cause a massive change in the way healthcare practitioners and doctors treat a whole series of chronic conditions and diseases.

The trial, otherwise know as the Simplified Treatment Intervention To Control Hypertension (STITCH) trial was a programme that analyzed the results of the treatment of both the 2100 patients with high blood pressure spread over 45 family practices in Ontario in Canada.

What exactly is high blood pressure and quite why can it (if left untreated) be so deadly?

Only in approximately 1 out of 20 cases will the sufferer be aware of their high blood pressure.

Quite often an apparently symptom less disorder, a diagnosis of high blood pressure can be missed for years and hence the morbid description “the silent killer”.

There are certain signs that can be a bit of a give away with regards to high blood pressure and these should not be left unattended if observed.

Included amongst the following are some of the symptoms: Dizziness, Ringing in the Ears , Blurred Vision, Increased frequency of urinating at night.

The above taken together would tend to indicate an occurrence of high blood pressure but a careful diagnosis is needed as they just as easily could indicate associate conditions.

OK, we have all heard the term high blood pressure but what exactly does it mean?

Well, if we are to go back to basics then the body’s major tissues and organs are supplied and fed with blood pumped to them from the heart via a network of hose like vessels called arteries.

In around 90% of all cases of diagnosed high blood pressure there is no one particular cause and as such this high blood pressure is called “Primary (Essential) High Blood Pressure”.

For those whose incidences of high blood pressure fall outside of the category described above then if the cause of the high blood pressure can be traced directly to one particular failing organ etc then the cause can usually be dealt with and as such the “Secondary High Blood Pressure” can accordingly be treated quite successfully.

In less than 10% of the incidences of high blood pressure diagnosed, the diagnosis falls into the category known as “Malignant Hypertension”. Quite often this is discovered totally by accident and may be as a result of an associate test such as an eye test whereby the Optician can sometimes detect the condition by merely looking into a patients eye.

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