help in treating high blood pressure

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Hi Richard. Welcome to Chinese Traditional Medicine.

 

One or more of several TCM imbalances can underlie hypertension. You'll

need to see a TCM healer to determine which are operating in your case.

One of the things that most surprises many Westerners about TCM is that

there is no one-to-one correspondence between TCM imbalances and

allopathic-defined medical conditions. For example, one person with HBP

may have an underlying Root of Liver-Kidney Yin Deficiency, another

Blood Stasis Obstructing the Network Vessels, another Yin & Yang Dual

Deficiency, and so on. What helps one person may do nothing for a

second and could make a third sicker because the underlying TCM

imbalances are different.

 

Bob Flaws and Philippe Sionneau report in The Treatment of Modern

Western Medical Diseases with that " Acupuncture is

usually very effective for bringing down a high systolic pressure

within 15-20 minutes of insertion of the needles. It is less effective

for reducing an elevated diastolic pressure. " (p. 279.) They add that

in cases of HBP acupuncture is more effective in treating Excess

imbalances than in treating Deficiency imbalances. (p. 279.) (Excess

imbalances are caused by there being too much of something - Phlegm,

Blood Stasis, etc. Deficiency patterns are caused by there not being

enough of something the body needs. For example, Yin Deficiency, Yang

Deficiency, Qi Deficiency, etc.

 

" Ear acupunmcture with intradermal needles left in place between

regularly scheduled body acupuncture sessions may improve the

therapeutic effect of acupuncture. It is also possible to use 'ion

pellets' or radish seeds taped over the selected ear points which the

patient stimulates several times per day with finger pressure. " (p.

279.)

 

According to Flaws and Sionneau, HBP is one of those conditions that as

a general rule responds best to a combination of allopathic medicine

and TCM. They instruct TCM healers to " do a pattern discrimination of

the patient's signs and symptoms WHILE ON THEIR WESTERN DRUGS and

proceed accordingly. " (p. 279.) (A " pattern discrimination " means

determining what TCM imbalances are present.)

 

Flaws and Sionneau mention " Onion and garlic can both prevent and lower

hypertension. " (p. 279.) They mention chrysanthemum flower, celery, and

shepherd's purse as being good foods and herbs for people with an

underlying TCM pattern of Liver Fire Flaming Upward or Yin Deficiency-

Yang Hyperactivity (Liver Yang Rising). (p. 279.)

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--- victoria_dragon <victoria_dragon escreveu:

 

> > " Ear acupunmcture with intradermal needles left in place

> between

> regularly scheduled body acupuncture sessions may improve the

> therapeutic effect of acupuncture. It is also possible to use

> 'ion

> pellets' or radish seeds taped over the selected ear points

> which the

> patient stimulates several times per day with finger pressure. "

> (p.

> 279.)

>

 

For lowering blood pressure with auricular therapy one can use

the Groove for lowering blood pressure and Point Hypertension.

P.Hypertension can lower it smoothly, while Groove makes it fall

too quikly(causing hypotension) with a rebound of increase of

blood pressure afterwards.

 

This doesn't treat the cause, which is desirable, just the

symptom.

The cause continues to operate, and may 'pop up' in another form eventually.

 

 

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , marcos <ishk18 wrote:

>

> This doesn't treat the cause, which is desirable, just the

> symptom.

> The cause continues to operate, and may 'pop up' in another form

eventually.

 

I want to emphasize this not only for the beginning TCM students on

the list but also for the list members who are new to TCM. It's true

of any untreated TCM imbalance and the many ways an imbalance can

manifest. It's why the emphasis in TCM is on identifying and treating

Roots (underlying imbalances) instead of merely treating symptoms. If

you treat the symptoms but not the Root, the Root is going to

manifest in other ways. It still exists. Not only that, as time goes

by, untreated Roots tend to get worse and to manifest in more and

more ways - " key " symptoms as well as other possible symptoms.

Students, one of the things you'll learn in clinic is that people

very rarely will have every possible symptom of a particular

imbalance. As a general rule, the more symptoms that are present and

the more severe the symptoms, the more severe the imbalance and the

longer it's gone untreated.

 

Something else for beginning students to keep in mind is that in

time, one imbalance can trigger another. For example, untreated

Internal Cold will trigger Blood Stasis. Cold is one of the things

that will work against the proper flow of Blood. Treatment will vary

according to etiology. For example, in a case where Cold has been a

factor in the Blood Stasis, Herbs That Move Blood alone are not going

to be enough. The Internal Cold also will need to be treated. In

these cases, the Blood Stasis imbalance is a " Branch " and the

Internal Cold is the Root. (A good TCM Materia Medica (list of

healing substances) will give suggestions on other herbs to add to a

formula if such and such symptoms or imbalances also are present.)

 

Advanced TCM: Beginning students, it can be very helpful to keep in

mind that TCM recognizes that one Pernicious Evil (Cold, Heat, Wind,

Dryness, Dampness, Fire) can change into another. One of the first

examples you'll learn is how a cold due to Wind Cold Invasion (or

Wind Heat Invasion) can transform into the Fire of pneumonia if the

Wind Cold (or Wind Heat) becomes trapped.