Is acupuncture really as amazing as some people say it is? Or does it not work at all as some people say? This is what many people want to understand. In fact, acupuncture for weight loss has been around for a long time. The Chinese medicine has records of acupuncture for weight loss since ancient times. It’s just that it hasn’t been as hot as it is now. As a result of the economic era, there are many misconceptions about acupuncture for weight loss. It is important to get rid of these misconceptions so that you can truly understand acupuncture for weight loss. The body fat accumulation too much, weight more than 20% of the standard, that is, called obesity (obesity). The common one is simple obesity, which is not accompanied by obvious changes in the function of the nervous or endocrine system. Acupuncture weight loss is mainly aimed at simple obesity. Mild obesity often has no obvious symptoms, while severe obesity has fatigue and weakness, shortness of breath, slow movement, and even puffy face. Obesity is easily combined with diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and various infectious diseases. Almost all obese patients are looking for a way to lose weight that works quickly and never bounces back, without any harm. Liposuction is one of the fast-acting methods of weight loss, where fat is lost through liposuction. The surgery does remove some of the undesirable fat from the body, but it does not touch the deeper visceral fat. Liposuction can easily lead to rebound and is more difficult to maintain a healthy body shape. Therefore, people are still using more drugs to lose weight. There is a wide range of weight loss drugs and teas on the market, some of which are effective in the near future. But most of the long-term effects are not ideal. A few drugs often come at the cost of damage to liver and kidney function. Chinese medicine is not the safest way to lose weight. In Japan, 12 cases of acute liver damage were reported at Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo after taking health products herbal weight loss agents produced in Hunan and Guangzhou, China. Therefore, the healthiest way to lose weight should be exercise therapy. Exercise therapy not only provides weight loss, but also strengthens the body, promotes health and, more importantly, its body-shaping function. The right exercise method can make you maintain a fit body while losing weight. First, exercise should become a habit. It is important to find the right method of exercise for you. Exercise must be in moderation, and you must not over-eat after exercise. But so many people often complain about the lack of time and perseverance. In addition, although exercise can consume a lot of energy in the body, while easy to cause hunger. This requires a combination of exercise and dieting. Dieting and starvation therapy have certain efficacy, but improper operation should also affect physical health, or affect normal work life and study. And it is difficult to adhere to. Bad dieting methods may cause a person’s personality to change, becoming quiet, reluctant to interact with others, inattentive, memory loss, academic performance decline, etc.. Girls may suffer from anorexia and wasting due to long-term dieting, causing metabolic and endocrine disorders in the body, which may lead to low fever, anemia, amenorrhea, etc. Serious cases may lead to death due to complications. Eat a nutritious low-fat diet, limit the intake of high-fat foods, prepare some fresh fruits and vegetables, eat less sweets, eat more fiber-containing foods, eat more protein, eat a good lunch and less dinner, while stopping ineffective dieting, etc. This will help you lose weight more and will not affect your health. Of course, dieting may lose a lot of the pleasure of eating, without the dash of wolfing down the food. The disadvantage of dieting that is difficult to overcome is hunger or anorexia. An effective solution to these problems is acupuncture therapy. Acupuncture for weight loss, no matter how perfect, should be combined with diet and exercise therapy. It can even be said that acupuncture for weight loss is an adjunct to diet therapy and exercise therapy. To really lose weight easily and healthily and to avoid weight regain after weight loss, scientific diet and proper exercise together with acupuncture become the three inseparable measures. The mechanism of acupuncture for weight loss is still not very clear. It is generally believed that one is to strengthen the body’s diuretic effect, through the reduction of water to achieve the effect of reducing weight. However, this is often only an immediate weight loss effect, not lasting. The second is to suppress appetite, slow down gastrointestinal motility and reduce eating. This effect is the key to the organic combination of acupuncture for weight loss and diet and exercise therapy. It overcomes to a certain extent the biggest drawback of exercise and dieting – hunger. Third, endocrine regulation. This is the key to maintaining the long-term efficacy of acupuncture for weight loss, avoiding rebound and having body-shaping function. Acupuncture mobilizes the body’s lipolysis metabolism, but this effect is not yet sufficient to break down a large amount of body fat for rapid weight reduction. Acupuncture achieves weight loss and weight reduction by mobilizing lipolysis in a state where the body’s energy intake is lower than its consumption (or decomposition) by controlling the diet, reducing the body’s intake, and making the body’s energy intake lower than its consumption. Therefore, acupuncture weight loss is the result of the interaction of multiple factors. Acupuncture suppresses the patient’s appetite and slows down gastrointestinal motility, which can produce a weight-lowering effect. However, if the amount of food eaten is too small, it is difficult to ensure the basic energy consumption of the organism for a day. Although the patient does not have an obvious feeling of hunger, it does not mean that the organism is not in a state of hunger. Therefore, dieting should also be moderate. In general, when the body is in a state of starvation, it first uses liver glycogen stored in the liver and muscle glycogen stored in the muscles, and then consumes protein from various organs such as muscles, and does not consume excessive fat in the body. Some studies have shown that 65% of the weight lost by dieting alone is in non-adipose tissue, while only 35% is in adipose tissue, and once the appetite suppression is lifted and normal eating occurs, the weight may rebound. This is the reason why it is not advisable to control the diet alone. Therefore, one of the advantages of acupuncture for weight loss is that it suppresses the patient’s appetite without putting the body in a state of starvation. It is also evident that short-term acupuncture for weight loss will not likely result in long-term weight loss. By regulating the patient’s satiety center through acupuncture, the patient’s over-exuberant appetite can be suppressed while leaving the body in a non-starvation state without hunger, and at the same time mobilizing the decomposition of fat for weight loss, which is the ideal solution that acupuncture should pursue for weight loss and should be a long-term process. When evaluating the effect of acupuncture for weight loss, we should not only look at the weight loss, but also consider it from various aspects. For example, whether the eating habits change, whether hunger and satiety are obvious, whether weight loss, the safety of acupuncture in the process of weight loss, and whether weight rebound after acupuncture. That “year after year weight loss year after year fat” scenario, so many obese patients lose confidence in weight loss. Therefore, the control of diet must not be excessive, must make the body’s intake can meet the basic needs of patients, which includes the reasonable distribution of the three meals, the nutritional composition of dietary components, so that the body’s energy intake and consumption in a balanced state. In addition, to ensure that patients drink water intake, not to strengthen the diuretic effect for the immediate effect, and adhere to appropriate physical activity. So that weight loss can really lose fat. In addition, another issue that people are more concerned about is whether acupuncture is safe and hygienic; whether there is cross-infection. Since most of the regular hospitals use disposable acupuncture needles, this concern is superfluous. Moreover, acupuncture is not as painful as people think. Some people are not worried about the pain, but mainly about the soreness and swelling of the qi. The painless needle method can avoid pain to a certain extent. But it is better to keep the feeling of soreness, numbness, swelling, etc. This is the reason why Chinese medicine believes that “Qi is effective when it arrives”. Acupuncture is a green therapy with no side effects, and it can also play a role in health care, improving immunity and strengthening resistance. In the first few days of acupuncture, some patients will have an increased appetite, which can be supplemented by auricular pressure points, such as the stomach points, endocrine points, Sanjiao points, spleen, etc., with Wang Bu Liuxing seeds, 30 minutes before each meal to lightly stimulate 3 minutes, a burning sensation. There is absolutely no need for patients to control their own diet. If necessary, this can be combined with gua sha therapy and fire cupping therapy. These are all inexpensive, simple to operate, and have no side effects. Although acupuncture has some effect on weight loss, it is also a painful thing to lie there every day. If long-term acupuncture weight loss, it will take even more time. So, does acupuncture weight loss have nothing to do with people who don’t have a lot of time? Of course not. If you are busy with work, you can also cancel acupuncture and use acupuncture points instead. Acupuncture point burying solves the problem of time consuming. A single buried thread is approximately equivalent to 2 weeks of acupuncture. The so-called “buried thread” is a special thread that is pushed into the acupuncture point with a set of needles at the location where acupuncture is needed, so that it can stimulate the point like acupuncture, and then you don’t have to lie there for a long time every day. This thread is also made of special materials, can be completely absorbed by the body, 2 weeks later completely disappeared, then just “buried” once again can be. Of course, although it is simple, it is still a surgery, involving the dermis or muscle layer, and requires strict sterilization and operation. A small number of patients have immune reactions. Therefore, it should be done in a regular hospital with certain sanitary conditions. The mechanism of acupuncture point embedding is more or less the same as that of acupuncture. By adjusting the neurological and endocrine functions of obese people, it can inhibit the hyperactive appetite of obese people and reduce energy intake. At the same time, it can promote energy metabolism, increase energy consumption, promote fat mobilization and fat decomposition, and finally achieve weight loss. Weight loss is not a short-term act. Acupuncture series of therapy is not a quick fix. To control weight and avoid rebound, it is necessary to eat regular scientific meals and participate in regular physical exercise. If it is not for work or temporary needs, you should give up the surprise weight loss. Weight loss dramatically will not only rebound, but also lead to amenorrhea, gallstones, brain cell damage, osteoporosis, hair loss and a variety of other diseases, and even cause organ failure. Weight loss should be a long-term behavior, it is important to adhere to, to develop habits. Safe weight loss should be 0.2 to 0.5 kg per week, and a monthly weight loss of 1-3 kg is more realistic.