Question: Can high blood pressure be treated with TCM?
Answer: External symptoms always have a root cause, according to TCM. The true source of any health problem is what TCM practitioners work to determine and treat through their diagnosis and treatment plan. Each person is unique, with his or her own constitution and internal energy (Qi) pattern. It may surprise you to know that from the TCM perspective, similar symptoms do not always have the same root cause.
Take high blood pressure, or hypertension, for example. In the TCM view this condition can be related to the Heart, the Kidney, or the Stomach organ systems. Frequently it is a combination of organs that have some kind of functional disorder and have fallen into a state of imbalance. Actually, in many cases, you can say that the symptom of high blood pressure is a sign that the entire body is out of balance. Read more
