Obesity is generally divided into pathological obesity and physiological obesity, pathological obesity patients can be treated by acupuncture to improve the disease and achieve the purpose of weight loss, while for physiological obesity, acupuncture weight loss method is basically ineffective.
The function of acupuncture is to reduce the stomach fire of obese people, reduce or inhibit the hyperactive appetite of obese people, so as to reduce the amount of food, avoid over-eating, and inhibit the digestion and absorption function of the intestines and stomach.
The other obesity is due to habitual constipation, acupuncture can achieve the role of laxative; there is also menopausal female obesity, this period of women due to low activity, endocrine disorders, if the diet is not strictly controlled, it is easy to accumulate fat, resulting in obesity, acupuncture through the regulation of the body’s endocrine and achieve the purpose of weight loss.
The most suitable age is between 20~40 years old. Especially for people with abdominal obesity, through meridian adjustment and acupuncture points, the effect of weight loss is more prominent for those with abdominal fat accumulation; secondly, for obese people with too much water dampness in the body, acupuncture can facilitate diuresis and sweating, so as to achieve the effect of eliminating water dampness and achieve the purpose of weight loss.
It is important to note that patients with the following conditions are not suitable for acupuncture for weight loss.
- 1. suffering from skin diseases.
- 2. Patients with poor heart function, such as those with a pacemaker.
- 3. Not suitable for acupuncture for weight loss during illness.
- 4. Patients with bleeding tendency diseases such as hemophilia, people with coagulation mechanism disorders and anemic people.
- 5. Compulsory blood donation for less than one month.
It is also important to remind people who are ready to lose weight with acupuncture that there are many different types of acupuncture in the society, and the treatment institutions are also mixed, so you must choose a medical unit approved by the relevant authorities and qualified to practice, under the guidance and treatment of professional doctors for weight loss and conditioning.
