Minimally invasive acupuncture point burial thread for simple obesity

  Obesity not only affects aesthetics, but more seriously, it is easy to complicate a variety of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, gout, ischemic stroke, arthritis, etc. and affect quality of life and cause anxiety. Traditional treatment of obesity is mainly diet control and exercise therapy, but the efficacy is not optimistic.  Among the Chinese medical methods, acupuncture is widely used to treat obesity disease and its efficacy is sure. It is an extension and development of acupuncture and moxibustion. It is to implant protein magnetized threads into the corresponding acupuncture points with a thread-buried apparatus to produce a continuous and effective stimulating effect on the acupuncture points through the threads (the threads are naturally dissolved and absorbed in the body for 15 days to 3 months) to achieve weight loss. This method is the preferred weight loss method for busy modern people, as it eliminates the trouble and pain of “needle” once a day for obese patients.  According to the individual differences of patients, different symptoms and different obesity mechanisms, we select the points with reasonable and effective identification, and bury the protein magnetized thread (thread instead of needle) in the corresponding points to achieve the effect of “strengthening the spleen and benefiting the qi, unblocking the meridians, harmonizing the yin and yang qi and blood”, so as to adjust the patient’s phytoncotic and endocrine functions.  On the other hand, it can stimulate the patient’s sluggish autonomic nerves (sympathetic nerves) to make them active, increase energy consumption and promote fat decomposition in the body. Therefore, it is the body’s fat rather than water that is lost by acupuncture point burial, and it can ensure the health and energy of the body during the weight loss process, and the rebound rate is extremely low.  With the development of modern biomedical materials, buried thread weight loss has now developed to the stage of minimally invasive buried thread weight loss with less trauma. The buried material used by the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Hospital is the polymeric biomedical material PGLA, which produces a gentler stimulation of acupuncture points and avoids adverse reactions such as allergy and infection brought about by the traditional sheep intestine thread (protein thread).  I believe that many people are more concerned about the clinical efficacy, right? It varies from person to person. This is definitely not a pretext to fool people, in fact, it does. Because obesity in Chinese medicine is divided into symptoms, the need for evidence-based treatment. Different types of obese patients, the efficacy is naturally different, in addition to each person’s diet and lifestyle habits are also different, acupuncture point buried line treatment after each patient whether the strict implementation of medical advice is also an important factor affecting the efficacy.  Dr. Tang treated obese patients, there are very good results, but also very little effect. Every time this time, Dr. Tang will also have a sense of frustration, whether it is his own academic incompetence, or the cause of the patient. Dr. Tang does not want to escape, but only wants to say that in order to achieve good results, both doctors and patients need to make efforts, and unilateral efforts are not enough. Dr. Tang’s dream is to one day set up a specialist obesity non-surgical therapy clinic and a weight loss exclusive ward in the hospital.  Outside the hospital, slimming centers abound, but they are expensive and not suitable for everyone, especially the elderly. In addition, the majority of the mixed, give customers to eat meal replacement powder, diet pills, under the banner of traditional Chinese medicine to lose weight (cupping la, moxibustion la, etc.) the list goes on. Is the effectiveness of TCM really as good as the advertisements say? Which people are effective and which are less effective? The only thing that Dr. Tang wants to do is to be honest and give his patients a real weight loss data.