Treatment of Hypertension from the Liver Based on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine

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  • 1.School of Medicine Foshan University Guangdong Foshan 528225, China
    2.Department of Endocrinology Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Guangdong Shenzhen 518033, China
    3.Department of Cardiology Foshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Guangdong Foshan 528099, China

Received date: 2024-12-10

  Revised date: 2025-06-11

  Accepted date: 2025-10-06

  Online published: 2025-12-24

Abstract

Hypertension characterized by high prevalence and suboptimal control rates remains a critical risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality. The development of comprehensive strategies for effective hypertension management persists as a clinical challenge. Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM has accumulated substantial therapeutic experience in hypertension treatment. TCM interventions can not only alleviate clinical symptoms and enhance quality of life of the hypertension patients but also demonstrate stable hypotensive effects modulate risk factors and protecte target organ. Within TCM theoretical frameworks hypertension is principally classified under dizziness and headache with predominant etiological attribution to liver system dysregulation. Current clinical practice predominantly advocates liver-oriented therapeutic strategies and liver-regulating herbal formulations have demonstrated validated antihypertensive efficacy. Nevertheless the theoretical foundation underlying this liver-focused treatment paradigm warrants systematic elucidation. This study adopts an integrative medicine perspective to investigate TCM liver system fundamentals through  functional analysis of its roles in emotional modulation spleen-stomach coordination bile metabolism qi-blood-fluid dynamics and blood storage regulation. Analyze liver-hypertension pathophysiological relationships through neurological mechanisms digestive interactions and circulatory dynamics. Evaluate clinical applications by reviewing research progress of  liver-modulating herbal formulations in the prevension and treatment of hypertension so as to further explore the theoretical connotation of treating hypertension from the liver thereby providing a theoretical basis for clinical application of liver-regulating herbal therapies.


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Treatment of Hypertension from the Liver Based on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine

[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL GUIDE, 2025 , 27(11) : 1203 -1203-1207 . DOI: magtech.2024.12.10-00004

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