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Does acupuncture reduce blood pressure and improve wellbeing in a patient with hypertension intolerant to antihypertensive agents?
Does acupuncture reduce blood pressure and improve wellbeing in a patient with hypertension intolerant to antihypertensive agents?
Acupuncture may serve as a beneficial adjunctive or alternative therapy for managing hypertension in patients who cannot tolerate the side effects of standard antihypertensive medications.
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May support acupuncture as adjunct in drug-intolerant hypertension; hypothesis-generating, requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
This report describes the regular use of acupuncture treatments for a patient with hypertension who could not tolerate the side effects of the antihypertensive agents. The patient received 60 acupuncture treatments in the course of 12 weeks, during which time his overall wellbeing improved, his blood pressure reduced and the side effects of antihypertensive drugs were removed. Although acupuncture plus the drug appeared to have a substantial synergistic effect that was weakened when the drug was discontinued, acupuncture may still play a role in the management of hypertension, especially for patients who cannot tolerate the side effects of antihypertensive agents.
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