High Blood Pressure? Bring It Down Quickly With Traditional Chinese Wisdom
Beyond medication, treatments including acupuncture, foot soaking, herbal teas, and isometric and aerobic exercise can help keep blood pressure in check.
High blood pressure is often called a “silent killer” because it can strike without warning and lead to serious health consequences. Wu Hongqian, director of Taiwan’s Yisheng Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, provides three tips for quickly lowering blood pressure, increasing the chance of saving lives.
According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), acute attacks of hypertension are often caused by emotional excitement, excessive hot and spicy foods, or long-term insomnia. The core mechanism is an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system, resulting in loss of control of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve functions.
3 Tips to Quickly Lower Blood Pressure
Massaging acupoints is something you can do at home.
1. Stimulate 3 Relevant Acupoints in Sequence
Wu once had a patient whose blood pressure surged to 190 mmHg. After acupuncture on three acupoints in sequence, it dropped to 120 mmHg in just five to 10 minutes. These three acupoints are the Yanglingquan (GB-34), Zusanli (ST-36), and Taichong (LR-3). Wu emphasized that these three acupoints can be stimulated through acupuncture or massage, in the proper sequence, to guide the upward-surging qi back down.
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