Acupuncture Benefits Heart & Reduces Angina
Research concludes that acupuncture is effective for the treatment of heart pain, angina pectoris. This condition, commonly referred to as angina, is chest pain due to ischemia of the heart muscle wherein blood supply is restricted resulting in concomitant oxygen and glucose deprivation to the heart. A major cause of heart pain is coronary artery disease due to atherosclerosis. The researchers found that acupuncture does not adversely interact with medications. More importantly, the Read more...
Read MoreAcupuncture Helps Lung Cancer Patients
A Groundbreaking new study concludes that acupuncture treatments correlate to improvements in symptoms experienced by lung cancer patients. The study notes that lung cancer patients experience pain, depression, anxiety, nausea and a lack of well-being associated with either the disease or cancer treatments. The researchers discovered that a minimum of six acupuncture treatments was required to exert a 70% chance of a “clinically important improvement in well-being.” The study demonstrated Read more...
Read MoreAcupuncture Lowers High Blood Pressure
Acupuncture can reduce blood pressure. The study discovered that patients taking antihypertensive medications benefitted from further reductions in blood pressure by adding acupuncture to the treatment regime. As a result, the researchers concluded that “acupuncture should be in the hypertension treatment guidelines and widely used for blood pressure regulation. Acupuncture subjects chosen for the study had been taking antihypertensive medications for at least 24 months. Each subject was Read more...
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