For a long time, it has been the dream of obese and beauty lovers to lose weight easily. In this regard, many people place their hopes on diet pills, but they are worried that the side effects will be too great. It is too tiring to strengthen exercise, but dieting can't stop the temptation of food ... The lazy people's diet came into being. Among them, acupuncture and catgut embedding, which are known as "green weight loss", are popular. Is it really so magical?

Acupuncture becomes an alternative weight-loss clinic

Wang Zi (pseudonym), who just received the admission notice from Wuhan Conservatory of Music this year, has good facial features and is 1.7 meters tall. However, due to her love of food, she has been practicing piano for a long time and neglected to exercise, and her weight is almost 161 kg.

After the college entrance examination, Wang Zi came to the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to try acupuncture weight loss. Li Shaolan, the deputy chief physician of this department, learned that Xiao Wang had no basic diseases, and was obese because of her strong appetite and lack of exercise. She usually practiced the piano for a short time, so she suggested that she try to lose weight by embedding thread.

On the basis of acupuncture weight loss, this method embeds catgut processed by traditional Chinese medicine into acupoints such as Zusanli, Tian Shu, Zhongyu and Guanyuan through special needles, and then continues to stimulate, and then rebuilds the catgut after two weeks of natural absorption by human body. After two months of persistence, Xiao Wang has lost a little weight.

However, for another part of people who need to lose weight but are not symptomatic, acupuncture seems a bit "superficial". Because of hypothyroidism, Ms. Li gained 21 Jin, and sought acupuncture treatment, but there was little change.

"Generally, middle-aged and elderly people come to the acupuncture department, all of whom are patients recovering from headache, dizziness, insomnia, facial paralysis and encephalopathy. In recent years, acupuncture weight loss has become more and more popular." Yi Ping, deputy chief physician of the department, said that although acupuncture can regulate the endocrine and metabolic functions of the body by stimulating some acupoints, it is still an auxiliary weight loss method for simple obese people, and it should be combined with exercise and diet control to avoid weight rebound after weight loss.

acupuncture weight loss must "resist the Japanese War" for a long time

After beginning of autumn passed, the temperature dropped slightly, which made many people who lost their appetite because of the hot summer weather feel a lot better. Li Shaolan pointed out that the acupoints selected by acupuncture and catgut embedding for weight loss are precisely to suppress the obese people's overactive appetite, and can also moderately inhibit the patients' gastrointestinal absorption function, so as to achieve the purpose of slimming by regulating the "less intake and more output" of the human body's own metabolic system.

However, no matter how perfect it sounds, it should be combined with diet and exercise therapy. It can even be said that acupuncture weight loss is an auxiliary measure for diet and exercise.

In fact, the mechanism of acupuncture weight loss is still unclear. Although it mobilizes the body's fat catabolism to a certain extent, this effect is not enough to decompose a lot of fat in the body to lose weight quickly. It is generally believed that one is to strengthen the diuretic effect of the body; The second is to suppress appetite, delay gastrointestinal peristalsis and reduce eating; The third is to regulate endocrine. This also determines that short-term acupuncture or catgut embedding can not achieve long-term slimming effect, and it must be a process that needs long-term persistence.

In order to avoid "losing weight every year and gaining weight every year", when evaluating acupuncture weight loss, we should not only look at the weight loss, but also consider from many aspects, such as whether the eating habits have changed, whether the hunger is obvious and the safety of acupuncture. Therefore, diet should not be over-controlled, basic needs should be met, and aerobic exercise should be insisted to make weight loss really reduce fat.

Beware of hidden tricks in informal occasions

In recent years, the market in acupuncture weight loss is booming. However, due to the fact that there are no night outpatient clinics in large hospitals, and most dieters are on the job, it gives some beauty and body-building institutions without medical qualifications an opportunity.

An expert said that why everyone dares to do it in acupuncture weight loss now, so that it is flooded, is also related to "safety". Because acupuncture weight loss's acupoints are mainly the hands, legs, abdomen, and the abdomen will not be deeply pricked, and the key parts such as the head and neck are not involved, the probability of major accidents is low, which makes some laymen dare to operate needles.

Those service personnel who are completely ignorant of human anatomy and have only been trained by health care schools for a few days, under their needles, some dieters have been punctured by blood vessels, resulting in bruises, subcutaneous caking, and even broken needles into meat, so they can't go to the hospital to "put out the fire" afterwards.

In addition, in informal occasions, acupuncture or catgut embedding are often tied to other products, such as requiring dieters to take their diet pills at the same time, or using massage essential oil, or even buying expensive corsets, which has become a real promotion of fake acupuncture.

Experts remind us that acupuncture is a medical project after all, so we must go to a regular hospital to see a doctor, which not only ensures one-time use of needles, but also has a precise grasp of dialectical treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and acupoints, which is far from being comparable to street beauty salons and health care institutions.

Seven kinds of acupuncture for secondary obesity are ineffective

Recently, the reporter learned from provincial and municipal traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, the First Hospital of the city and Pu 'ai Hospital that the number of citizens in acupuncture weight loss has increased every year, and some hospitals have seen nearly 21% of dieters.

who is suitable for acupuncture weight loss and who is less effective? Yi Ping introduced that first of all, acquired obesity, that is, those who eat more and exercise less, and those who weigh more than 11% of the standard value, especially those with high body fat rate and fat accumulation in the waist and abdomen. If some girls are not fat or even slim, they may be disappointed if they want to get below the normal weight through acupuncture.

Experts emphasize that people who have been taking diet pills for a long time, or secondary obesity, that is, obesity caused by certain disease factors, such as thalamus disease, pituitary disease, insulin, hypothyroidism, adrenocortical hyperfunction, taking hormones or sedative drugs for a long time, acupuncture adjustment will basically not help to lose weight.

losing weight is not a short-term behavior, and acupuncture series therapy is not achieved overnight. Losing weight sharply will not only rebound, but also lead to amenorrhea, gallstones, brain cell damage, osteoporosis, hair loss and other diseases, and even lead to organ failure. Losing weight should be a long-term behavior, and it is important to stick to it and form a habit. Safe weight loss should be reduced by 1 kg -3 kg per month, which is more practical.