Treatment of 60 cases of hyperlipidemia by electroacupuncture

Hyperlipidemia, which is the result of lipid metabolic disorder, can be simply divided into 3 types of hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and mixed type in clinic. The increase of lipids in the plasma is the important cause of atherosclerosis. It′s significant that hyperlipidemia is treated for preventing and treating the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease caused by atherosclerosis. The exploitation of blood-lipid lowering drugs is relatively rapid. But their application is limited in clinic for the side effects and potential fatalness to the elders. The author treated hyperlipidemia by electroacupuncture and it was reported as follows.