High vs. Low Blood Pressure: How Pulse Diagnosis Provides a Deeper Medical Assessment

High or low blood pressure isn’t just a number on a monitor — it’s a signal of how your body is functioning at its core.

For many Londoners, the diagnosis comes after routine GP checks or hospital visits: “Your blood pressure is high, here’s medication.” Or, in the case of low blood pressure: “It’s nothing serious, just drink more water.”

But for those experiencing daily fatigue, headaches, dizziness, or anxiety, these quick labels don’t always explain the full picture.

What if your pulse could reveal not only why your blood pressure is out of balance, but also what your body needs to restore stability?

This is the unique power of pulse diagnosis, an advanced skill in classical Chinese medicine that George has refined to world-leading levels.

Why Blood Pressure Issues Are So Complex

Blood pressure reflects how efficiently blood flows through your body — but many different factors can disturb this balance:

• High blood pressure (hypertension): Often linked to stress, poor diet, excess weight, or family history. Left unchecked, it can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and kidney problems.

• Low blood pressure (hypotension): May be dismissed as “benign,” but can cause chronic dizziness, fainting, fatigue, and poor circulation.
  

In Chinese medicine, both patterns are understood as disturbances in the harmony of the Heart, Kidney, and Liver systems — affecting circulation, fluid balance, and stress response.

Why Conventional Approaches Often Fall Short

Western medicine focuses heavily on controlling numbers. Antihypertensive drugs may successfully lower blood pressure readings but often:

• Don’t address why the imbalance occurred.

• Come with side effects like fatigue, dizziness, or sleep disruption.

• Overlook patients with “borderline” results who still feel unwell.
  

For low blood pressure, patients are often told simply to hydrate or add salt to their diet — yet many continue struggling with fatigue, brain fog, and weakness.

This is where George’s diagnostic approach offers a deeper, functional perspective.

How Pulse Diagnosis Reveals Hidden Imbalances

Through pulse diagnosis, George reads dozens of subtle pulse qualities at the wrist — far beyond “fast” or “slow.”

This allows him to detect patterns that explain why blood pressure is unstable, such as:

• Dysfunction in the Liver pulse → stress-driven hypertension, protein deficiency causing hypotension, liver inflammation from diet.

• Weak Kidney pulse → inability to maintain fluid and blood pressure balance.

• Sluggish circulation → thick or sticky blood slowing movement.

• Deficient Heart Qi → fatigue, palpitations, or dizziness in low blood pressure cases. The heart and cardiovascular system fail to pump the blood effectively throughout the body (cold hands and feet, Raynaud’s disease).

Unlike a cuff or other blood pressure reading, pulse diagnosis gives real-time insight into the body’s dynamic function — what’s happening beneath the surface, not just the outcome number.

How Acupuncture Supports Blood Pressure Balance

Once pulse patterns are identified, acupuncture treatments are tailored to restore harmony by:

• Calming the nervous system → reducing stress-driven spikes in blood pressure.

• Improving circulation → ensuring smooth, steady blood flow with strong, healthy blood quality.

• Strengthening the Kidneys and Heart → stabilising pressure in both high and low cases.

• Reducing systemic inflammation → preventing long-term vascular damage.

Unlike medication, acupuncture works with the body’s regulatory systems, creating balance rather than forcing artificial control.

A 55-year-old Londoner came to George after years of fluctuating high blood pressure. Despite medication, his readings remained inconsistent, and he suffered from headaches, poor sleep, and anxiety.

Within the first consultation, George’s pulse diagnosis revealed he was stuck in fight-or-flight mode (the sympathetic nervous system) due to excessive heating and stimulating foods and drinks that amplified his reaction to stress - that was fuelling both his high blood pressure and anxiety. Treatment focused on calming the nervous system, improving liver function and resolving excess heat in the liver and stomach acids.

Within one month, his blood pressure stabilised to a healthy range, his headaches reduced, and he reported sleeping deeply for the first time in years. His GP was able to gradually reduce his medication dose, and he continues to maintain stability through regular treatment and lifestyle adjustments.

Blood pressure problems aren’t just numbers on a chart - they’re reflections of deeper imbalances in circulation, stress, diet and organ systems.

George’s pulse diagnosis offers an unmatched ability to uncover why high or low blood pressure occurs, and acupuncture provides a safe, natural way to restore balance.

Your pulse already holds the key to better cardiovascular health. All it takes is the right expertise to unlock it.

If you struggle with high or low blood pressure, or if your symptoms don’t match your test results, George can help.

Book your consultation today and experience how world-leading pulse diagnosis and acupuncture can reveal the real story behind your blood pressure.

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