If you have high blood pressure and you live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, you have a new advocate in Desert Health Acupuncture because they are now offering a treatment regimen for people with hypertension or high blood pressure. Going back several 1000 years acupuncture was known to be a great treatment option for people suffering from high blood pressure. Hypertension is where the blood in the walls of the human body’s circulatory system exerts pressure. If left unchecked or untreated this pressure will cause harm to the lining of the blood vessels in the circulatory system which in turn can lead to arteriosclerosis.