Acupuncture Therapy For Hypertension Diabetes and Kidney Diseases

Acupuncture Therapy For Hypertension, Diabeties and Kidney Diseases

• High blood pressure

Q. What causes it ?

In many people with high blood pressure, a single specific cause is not known. This is called essential or primary high blood pressure. Research is continuing to find causes.

In some people, high blood pressure is the result of another medical problem or medication. When the cause is known, this is called secondary high blood pressure

Q. What is high blood pressure ?
A blood pressure of 140/90 or higher is considered high blood pressure. Both numbers are important. If one or both numbers are usually high, you have high blood pressure. If you are being treated for high blood pressure, you still have high blood pressure even if you have repeated readings in the normal range.

Q. What are the symptoms of high blood pressure?
Usually, there are no specific symptoms which indicate that someone has high blood pressure. But some population surveys have shown that a wide variety of common symptoms, such as sleep disturbance, emotional upsets, and dry mouth, are slightly commoner in people with higher pressures. The differences are small, however. Going red in the face, or feeling flushed, is not indicative of high blood pressure.

Q. What is Diabetes ?
Diabetes Mellitus is a syndrome characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from impaired insulin secretion and/or effectiveness, associated with risks for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) or nonketotic hyperglycemic-hyperosmolar coma (NKHHC) and a group of late complications including retinopathy, nephropathy, atherosclerotic coronary and peripheral arterial disease, and peripheral and autonomic neuropathies. Hypertension, hyperinsulinemia and hyperlipidemia are often associated with diabetes. The normal fasting plasma glucose level range is between 60 to 109 mg/dl.

• Type 1- Diabetes (formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) accounts for 10% of all cases of diabetes mellitus and is clinically characterized by hyperglycemia and a propensity to DKA. Its control requires chronic insulin treatment. Although it may occur at any age, it most commonly develops in childhood or adolescence.
• Type 2- Diabetes (formerly known as non-insulin–dependent diabetes mellitus) is characterized clinically by hyperglycemia (fasting plasma glucose level >126mg/dL) that is not associated with a propensity to DKA, but some patients intermittently or persistently require insulin to control or prevent symptomatic degrees of hyperglycemia which might lead to NKHHC. It is usually found in patients over the age of 30 but it also occurs in children and adolescents. It is commonly associated with obesity. Type 2 diabetes is a heterogeneous group of disorders in which hyperglycemia results from both an impaired insulin secretory response to glucose and decreased insulin effectiveness.
• Symptoms of Type 1- Diabetes include irritability, frequent urination, abnormal thirst, nausea or vomiting, weakness, fatigue, weight loss despite a normal intake of food and unusual hunger.
• Symptoms of Type 2- Diabetes include blurred vision, itching, unusual thirst, drowsiness, fatigue, skin infections, slow wound healing, tingling or numbness in the feets.

Acupuncture as a complex therapeutic system has been used to treat a variety of diseases and pathological conditions. Although the exact mechanism(s) of acupuncture remains unknown, some evidence suggests a mechanism initially involving signal transduction through connective tissue, with secondary involvement of other systems including the nervous system. Acupuncture has become increasingly popular in the Western countries as a therapy for pain and several chronic disorders difficult to manage with conventional treatments. Acupuncture and acupuncture-like somatic nerve stimulation have been used in different kidney diseases and several complications related to them. The effect of acupuncture techniques in some kidney diseases, hypertension or diabetes is reviewed on the basis of clinical reports as well as mechanisms that may possibly explain the beneficial effects mediated by acupressure/acupuncture. The potential effect of acupressure techniques in renal inflammation and whether these effects could be mediated through the newly identified cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway are discussed.

Results are encouraging but individual results sometime gives thought to summaries results very carefully.
About the author:-
Consulting Acupuncturist
Dr.B.S.Taneja
M.D Ac.,M.Ac,S.I.Jaipur
M.I.C.C.M.Delhi
M.I.C.Ac.Beijing
Gold Medalist
Acupuncture Specialist

Basically an Ayurvedic Physician Awarded Graduation Degree in Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery. In 1981 Post Graduation Degree in Clinical Psychology from GurukulKangri University Haridwar.U.K. In 1985 Post Graduation Degree in Acupuncture Therapy M.D.Acupuncture.Practicing Acupuncture for last 25Years with Success.
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