Acupuncture treats high blood pressure by relaxing the body, dilating the blood vessels, stimulating the immune system and reducing inflammation. Watch naturopathic specialist Pina LoGiudice, ND, discuss the benefits of acupuncture for hypertension.
Acupuncture is wonderful in lowering blood pressure. There are so many wonderful acupuncture points throughout the body because with hypertension it could be because you're stressed out or you're dehydrated, you're working too hard. So, what acupuncture serves as is that it could relax the body, it could dilate your blood vessels, it could actually stimulate your immune system and function as an anti-inflammatory.
So a great wonderful treatment with a licensed acupuncturist, you can do that on a weekly basis or on the Internet buy Murphy basis for acupuncture treatments for hypertension and it works great.
Pina LoGiudice, MD, is a naturopathic medicine physician and co-author in the third edition of the Textbook of Natural Medicine.
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