It has been found through extensive research in the acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine that there exists strong bioelectrical connections between ear acupuncture points and other organs of the human body. When people get ill, bioelectric parameters such as resistance or potential usually change around the ear points. Heart specialists around the world consider angiocardiopathy caused by hypertension a leading cause of death. In Asia, 11.9 percent of those with hypertension in 1985 died, said sources from the United States. And the WHO says more than 13 million people die from angiocardiopathy in the world every year.
China is a country where the hypertension rate is very high.
Hypertension is often caused by aging, stress, abnormal blood fat, obesity, smoking, drinking, heredity, lack of physical exercise, excessive nervousness, and heredity, and other uncertain causes. Today hypertension is usually treated by drugs with side effects. Traditional Chinese medicine has unique advantages over drugs. Examples are acupuncture, magnetic field therapies and qigong therapy. Zhang's theory became a precondition for the Blood Pressure Regulator.