Abdominal and auricular acupuncture reduces blood pressure in hypertensive patients.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrated that abdominal electro-acupuncture for 6 weeks reduced both systolic and diastolic blood pressure and auricular acupuncture had a short-term adverse effect on both SBP and DBP. PMID: 28434467 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28434467?dopt=Abstract

Source: Complementary Therapies in Medicine - April 1, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Abdi H, Tayefi M, Moallem SR, Zhao B, Fayaz M, Ardabili HM, Razavi AA, Darbandi M, Darbandi S, Abbasi P, Ferns GA, Ghayour-Mobarhan M Tags: Complement Ther Med Source Type: research