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Case Report on the Treatment of Hypertension with Wood and Fire Acupoints  

Kim, Young-Jin (Department of Physiology, College of Oriental Medicine, Dongguk University)
Kim, Gil-Whon (Department of Physiology, College of Oriental Medicine, Dongguk University)
Shin, Heung-Mook (Department of Physiology, College of Oriental Medicine, Dongguk University)
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Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine / v.21, no.1, 2007 , pp. 303-307 More about this Journal
Abstract
This clinical experience reports the effect of wood and fire acupoints therapy on a hypertensive patient. Wood acupoint indicates Jing point in yin channel or Shu point in yang channel. Fire acupoint is Jing in yin channel or Jing in yang channel among the five acupoints of Jing, Xing, Shu, Jing and He. The patient was treated with indicated acupoints of 7 channels: lung, large intestine, spleen, pericardium, triple warmer, heart and liver, for 5 weeks. In case of necessity, another acupoints were added with wood and fire acupoints. After 5 weeks treatment, the blood pressure improved by 125/80 which is in normal level. This result suggests that wood and fire acupoints therapy is effective in the treatment of hypertension.
Keywords
Hypertension; wood and fire acupoints; blood pressure;
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