How To Use Acupuncture To Lower High Blood Pressure Video

Acupuncture is now used to treat high blood pressure and other medical conditions in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Learn how to use acupuncture to lower high blood pressure in this acupuncture video.

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Different causes for high blood pressure
Common acupuncture points for hypertension
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Robert Linde, acupuncture physician and registered herbalist, has studied herbs since 1975 and practiced traditional Chinese medicine for more than six years. He created the Professional Herbalists Training Program in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he consults patients. Linde is a frequent lecturer, CEU provider, founder of PACO (Pinellas Acupuncturists Co-operative), as well as the Florida Chapter of the America Herbalists Guild.

STEVE ARKIN, MD: This is Dr. Steve Arkin and I'll be talking a little bit about how to use an ovulation calculator. Ovulation calculation is a way of trying to predict the day that the egg is released from the ovary using calculations. Typically, you start your very first day of the calculation as the first day of your last menstrual period as day 1. Then you want to count for your entire cycle. So let's say your cycle was 30 days, if you knew your cycle was 30 days from one period to the other you subtract 14 days, which means you ovulated on day 16. If you have a 28-day cycle, you subtract 14, you ovulate on day 14. If you have a 32-day cycle, you subtract 14, which means you ovulated on day 18. So your typical ovulation calculator is really based on the length of your menstrual cycle, from day 1 of your menstrual cycle to the next day 1 of menstrual cycle, and to pick the day that you ovulate is 14 days backwards from the last day. That's how it's typically done. Sometimes it's done in conjunction with a test called BBT or basal body thermometer where you take your temperature everyday and if day 16, let's say on a 30-day cycle, was your ovulation, you would notice a rise in temperature, which corresponds to the rise in progesterone levels.

How to Use Acupuncture to Lower High Blood Pressure Video

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