Brief discussion on acupuncture technique "controllingto regulate blood pressure" proposed by academician / 中国针灸

ABSTRACT

According totheory, academicianestablished the acupuncture technique "controllingto regulate blood pressure" which focused on Renying (ST 9), and achieved favorable effects in clinical application. In this paper, based on thetheory, from aspects of,,andand relations among, blood and veins in TCM, and cardiac output, sympathetic nerve activity and blood vessels in modern medicine, the understanding on hypertension was explained. As a result, both TCM and modern medicine had consistency in the understanding of hypertension, reflecting the scientificity and practicability of this acupuncture technique. Besides, according totheory and "wind leading to vertigo" theory, academicianbrought forward the key pathogenesis of hypertension was "dysfunction of", and the acupoint selected Renying (ST 9), Quchi (LI 11), Hegu (LI 4), Zusanli (ST 36) and Taichong (LR 3). At the same time, the operation specification of each acupoint was mainly discussed, and the references of acupoint selection was explained based on TCM theory and modern clinical research.