Research progress on auricular plaster therapy for hypertension and related commonly seen symptoms / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews the clinical research literature of auricular plaster therapy for hypertension and related commonly seen symptoms. In clinic, auricular plaster therapy combined with orally taking Chinese and Western medicine, acupoint massage, ear point bloodletting and other auxiliary therapies can lower blood pressure and improve symptoms such as dizziness, headache, forgetfulness and insomnia. Auricular plaster therapy shows significant effect in the early treatment stage of essential hypertension; for patients with sleep disorders, auricular plaster therapy can increase sleep time and improve sleep quality without changing their normal sleep mode; for patients with depression or anxiety disorder, auricular plaster therapy shows significant effect in the short-term is, but when stop the intervention, it’s not that effective in the long term, and the antihypertensive and antidepressant effects disappear quickly. The main acupoint selection of auricular plaster therapy is relatively fixed, and the manipulation is roughly the same, which is easy to be popularized.