{"id":114,"date":"2016-11-02T05:53:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T05:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=114"},"modified":"2016-11-11T05:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T05:55:03","slug":"new-study-found-that-acupuncture-activates-opioids-lowers-hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"New Study Found that Acupuncture Activates Opioids, Lowers Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A new study from researchers at the UCI Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine has identified the molecular mechanism behind this benefit of electroacupuncture for hypertension.<\/p>\n<p>The study revealed that regular electroacupunture treatment has the potential to lower hypertension by increasing the release of a kind of opioid in the brainstem region that controls blood pressure. Electroacupuncture is acupuncture using a mild electrical current to run down the needles.<\/p>\n<p>This study is the first evidence published about the molecular activity behind electroacupunture&#8217;s benefits, a press release from UCI reported. These findings suggest that the therapy could be appropriate for for treating clinical hypertension.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, researchers also discovered that acupuncture has the potential to improve symptoms of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which is a precursor of dementia, Medical Daily previously reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicaldaily.com\/science-acupuncture-treatment-activates-opioids-lowers-hypertension-403084\">Medical Daily<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from researchers at the UCI Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine has identified the molecular mechanism behind&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture","category-alternative-medicine","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}