Traditional Chinese Medicine's liver yang ascendant hyperactivity pattern of essential hypertension and its treatment approaches: A narrative review.

Xuhua Huang, Sakhorn Ngaenklangdon, Jun He, Xiumei Gao

Complementary therapies in clinical practice 2021 May

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Liver yang ascendant hyperactivity" (SF52), as termed by WHO, is a commonly observed pattern of essential hypertension (EH), herein referred to as EH-SF52. This paper summarizes the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspectives, biomedical findings, and TCM managements for EH-SF52 in modern times. EH-SF52 is generally identified as an EH individual presenting with headache, dizziness, poor sleep quality, tinnitus, facial flushing, fatigue, signs of mild dehydration, and whom are highly irritable individuals with a tendency to overthink, be competitive, or be aggressive. The proposed EH-SF52 model features a state of autonomic imbalance and vascular changes that accounts for the above symptoms. TCM managements for EH-SF52 includes Chinese herbal medication, acupuncture, qigong, taichi, massage, food therapy, as well as lifestyle changes, which targets symptomatic alleviation and blood pressure reduction in a multi-mechanistic manner. An increasing shift towards integrated practice of TCM and western medicine in EH-SF52 requires effective communication between both disciplines. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Xuhua Huang, Sakhorn Ngaenklangdon, Jun He, Xiumei Gao. Traditional Chinese Medicine's liver yang ascendant hyperactivity pattern of essential hypertension and its treatment approaches: A narrative review. Complementary therapies in clinical practice. 2021 May;43:101354