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Moxibustion for essential hypertension.

Xingjiang Xiong¹, Wei Liu¹, Xiaochen Yang¹

¹Department of Cardiology, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China.

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

|February 25, 2014

Summary

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Moxibustion alone showed no benefit for essential hypertension (EH). However, when combined with antihypertensive drugs, it may help lower blood pressure, though more research is needed for confirmation.

Keywords:

Essential hypertension Moxibustion Systematic review

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Area of Science:

Integrative Medicine
Cardiovascular Health
Evidence-Based Practice

Background:

Essential hypertension (EH) is a prevalent cardiovascular condition requiring effective management.
Moxibustion, a traditional therapy, has been explored as a potential treatment for EH.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically review and assess the clinical evidence for moxibustion in treating essential hypertension.
To evaluate moxibustion as monotherapy and as an adjunct to conventional antihypertensive drugs.

Main Methods:

A comprehensive search of 7 electronic databases was conducted up to March 2013.
Included were randomized clinical trials comparing moxibustion (alone or combined with drugs) against antihypertensive drugs alone.
Study selection, data extraction, and analysis followed Cochrane standards; 5 trials were included.

Main Results:

Methodological quality of included trials was generally low.
Moxibustion monotherapy did not show significant blood pressure (BP) lowering effects compared to antihypertensive drugs.
Moxibustion combined with antihypertensive drugs demonstrated statistically significant reductions in systolic and diastolic BP.

Conclusions:

Current evidence suggests moxibustion may be beneficial as an adjunct therapy for essential hypertension, but not as a standalone treatment.
The safety of moxibustion for EH remains uncertain due to a lack of reported adverse events in most trials.
Further rigorously designed randomized clinical trials are necessary to confirm the efficacy and safety of moxibustion in managing essential hypertension.