Acupuncture has an antioxidant effect when treating hypertension

On 9th March, I wrote a blog about three different research studies demonstrating the benefit of acupuncture in treating hypertension. I have just come across another article published last November about a collaboration between the University of South Florida College of pharmacy and Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine.

Acupoint Liver 3

They compared two groups of rats with high blood pressure, one of which had an acupuncture needle inserted in a point on the foot (clearly Liver 3 in traditional acupuncture language), the other a needle in a non-acupuncture point.  Data revealed that the first group had significantly lower blood pressure after treatment but also noted that the part of the brain which regulates blood pressure contained higher levels of antioxidant enzymes, indicating the likely neural mechanism for acupuncture.

You can read the article here, and find out more about treating hypertension with acupuncture on my website.