A 40-year-old woman went to a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner with a complaint of neck pain. As the owner of a company, she was subject to persistent high stress in her daily work, and paid little attention to her diet. Her abdomen was starting to bulge as a result.
The TCM practitioner first took her pulse using traditional diagnostic methods and found that it felt like a “violin string,” indicating high blood pressure pings against the blood vessel walls. Blood pressure measurements revealed a systolic pressure of 160 mmHg and a diastolic pressure of 95 mmHg. At only 40, she could hardly imagine having hypertension.
