Sunday, August 3, 2008

Nature therapy- Acupuncture for Simple Obesity

[Introduction]
Obesity refers to accumulation of fat in the body due to changes of the biochemical and physiological functions. Clinically body weight increase by 20% more than the standard level is regarded as obesity, usually accompanied by abnormal changes of appetite and sleep, sweating, dry mouth and disorder of stool. TCM believes that obesity is mainly due to disorder of the spleen and stomach as well as dyfunction of defensive qi. The pathological changes are blood sthenia and qi asthenia, exuberance of yin and deficiency of yang as well as disorder of qi and blood. Insufficiency of primordial qi in the triple energizer affects metabolism of water and transformation of qi, consequently leading to obesity.

[Syndrome differentiation]
1. Heat in the stomach and intestines
Hyperorexia, polyphagia, dry mouth and preference for drinking water, aversion to heat and profuse sweating, irritability and susceptibility to rage, constipation, yellow and scanty urine, red tongue with yellow and greasy fur, slippery and powerful pulse or slippery and rapid pulse.

2. Asthenia of spleen and stomach qi
Pale complexion and lips, poor appetite, abdominal distension after meal, spiritual lassitude and fatigue, palpitation and shortness of breath, somnolence and no desire to talk, loose stool or scanty urine and dropsy, light-colored tongue with tooth prints on the margins, thin and white tongue fur, thin, slow and weak pulse or deep and slow pulse.

3. Insufficiency of renal primordial qi
Bright-white complexion, preference for quietness and aversion to activity, normal appetite or reduced appetite, shortness of breath and asthma, sweating in movement, dizziness and aching loins, or afternoon fever, thirst without much drinking, or aversion to cold and edema of limbs, often accompanied by irregular menstruation in women and impotence in men, light-colored tongue with tender texture and tooth prints on the margins, scanty tongue fur, deep, thin and weak pulse.

Source: Acupuncture- Acupuncture for Simple Obesity
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