Abstract:

Through the review of the literature on acupuncture treating hypertension in the past 10 years published on the domestic core journals and SCI, combined with the author′s personal clinical perception, it is believed that acupuncture for hypertension has the following advantages: It can assist the control of hypertension risk factors; compared with the controversy over the intervention of western medicine, the benefits that acupuncture brings for the pre-hypertension and mild low-risk hypertension population are clearer; dual-direction regulation makes blood pressure more stable; it applies individualized treatment by selecting acupoints with the combination of disease and syndrome; it can reduce blood pressure variability and the possibility of target organ damage. However, the current acupuncture point compatibility and manual measurement of hypertension are different, and further optimization is needed.

Key words: Acupuncture therapy, Hypertension, Review