Recently, there are a lot of acupuncture weight loss patients in the clinic, and I am grateful for the acupuncture weight loss theory and clinical treatment plan summarized by our senior doctor after years of clinical exploration and experience, and the results are always surprising and amazing. I think a few years ago when I was in school, I did not take obesity seriously and did not think that acupuncture would have any effect on weight loss, but I really know that I have to do it myself. During the internal medicine transfer period, I also deeply know the danger of obesity, so I often repeatedly mention to patients that obesity is a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, obesity is often accompanied by hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, etc. Fortunately, now every patient can understand and can recognize the danger of obesity. So what is obesity which? When we take in more energy than the consumption of energy, excess heat in the form of fat stored in the body, more than the normal physiological needs, and reached a certain value when it evolved into obesity. So obesity must be the intake of energy than the consumption of energy caused by, this is undoubtedly. The diagnosis of obesity can simply use the body mass index (BMI): weight kg/height m2, if more than 24 for the normal upper limit, 24-28 for overweight, more than 28 for obese. Of course, it can also be calculated according to the standard weight formula: (height – 100) * 0.9, if more than 20% of the standard weight can be diagnosed obesity. Obesity treatment Just mentioned the concept of obesity, that is, energy intake > energy consumption, then according to this principle, the first treatment program is to reduce energy intake, or increase energy consumption, that is to say, diet control and increase physical work is the main. Any means of weight loss, no matter how much it is boasted, must be treated based on these two means, which must be stated again and again. If we can control the diet at 1000 calories a day, we can basically lose 1 pound a week without other means. Understanding this, let’s talk about acupuncture for weight loss. Acupuncture weight loss must also be based on diet control because it is fundamental, so what is the role of acupuncture? When we do diet control or increase consumption energy expenditure, acupuncture will fully mobilize the body fat into energy to meet the body’s energy needs, so that fat burning, so in the case of your diet control satisfactory acupuncture can achieve twice the effect with half the effort. Acupuncture can help control the diet by stimulating the spleen and stomach meridian points to make the spleen’s main transport function work better, so that the fluids can be distributed smoothly, and have a certain appetite suppression, enhance the feeling of satiety. As for the mechanism of acupuncture for weight loss, modern medical research has not yet reached a definite conclusion. But according to the basic theory of Chinese medicine can be briefly summarized as above.