Acupuncture weight loss is also not applicable to women who are in menstrual period or have not recovered their menstrual period after postpartum or abortion. This is because acupuncture weight loss needs to adopt the "bleeding to return to the yuan" formula in abdominal acupuncture. If this needle is used, it may affect the whole blood circulation system of the human body and other systems in the body, especially for women who have not recovered their menstrual period after postpartum or even after abortion, it may lead to an increase in menstrual flow. Therefore, for safety, women,
Although acupuncture can't be used to lose weight at this time, other methods can still be used, such as diet or exercise. In fact, even if you use acupuncture to lose weight, you also need to participate in diet and exercise to lose weight. It is far from enough to unilaterally hope to achieve the goal of losing weight through acupuncture weight loss.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that obesity is caused by spleen-stomach imbalance, qi deficiency and dampness stagnation, strong stomach and weak spleen, internal stagnation of damp heat, imbalance of chong and ren, disharmony with pulse, etc., which leads to disorder of lipid metabolism in water and fluid, and accumulation of lipid in water and phlegm, which leads to obesity. Therefore, balancing yin and yang, regulating viscera, activating qi and blood, and dredging meridians are the basic treatments. Acupuncture weight loss is effective, especially for postpartum obesity. At present, there are many methods in acupuncture weight loss, and most of them adopt the method of combining body acupuncture with auricular point sticking and pressing.
Body acupuncture treatment: The patient is supine, and the commonly used acupoints are combined with local acupoint selection based on syndrome differentiation. The main points are Tian Shu, Zhongwan, Yinlingquan, Sanyinjiao, Shuidao, Fenglong and Zusanli, and different reinforcing and reducing methods are adopted according to syndrome differentiation.