Pathologically obese patients can be treated with acupuncture
Obesity is generally divided into pathological obesity and physiological obesity. Patients with pathological obesity can be treated with acupuncture to improve the disease and achieve weight loss, while for physiological obesity, the acupuncture weight loss method is basically ineffective.
The most suitable age is between 20￣40 years old. Especially for abdominal obesity, through meridian adjustment and acupuncture points, the weight loss effect 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, thus achieving the effect of eliminating water dampness and achieving weight loss.
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. capacity and absorption function.
Some obese people are fat because of constipation, acupuncture can achieve the effect 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.
It is important to note that patients with the following conditions are not suitable for acupuncture weight loss.
2. have bleeding disorders such as hemophilia, coagulation disorders and anemia. 3. have volunteered to donate blood for less than one month. 4. have skin diseases. 5. have poor heart function, such as patients with a pacemaker.
Here is also a solemn reminder that people who are ready to lose weight with acupuncture, there are many different names of acupuncture and weight loss in the society, and the treatment institutions are mixed, so be sure to choose the medical units approved by the relevant departments and qualified to practice, under the guidance and treatment of professional doctors for weight loss and conditioning.
Related: In the process of acupuncture for weight loss, excessive control of diet is not emphasized, and starvation therapy is especially not advocated. However, acupuncture with diet is more effective, and here is a reference recipe for acupuncture weight loss.
Breakfast: a cup of white soy milk (no sugar) + a slice of whole wheat bread (or) skim milk + egg whites
Chinese food: one or two rice + a few vegetarian dishes (water is best)
Dinner: eat before 6:00 pm. You can choose tomatoes, cucumbers, coleslaw.
The earlier the dinner time the better, not more than 7:00 pm. 5 hours before bedtime, no water and no food.
