Can pressing the hunger-stopping points help you lose weight? Chinese medicine doctor: Press these two ear points to lose weight easily

The main cause of obesity is mostly related to "not being able to control your mouth", that is, eating more calories than you consume. The reason is that hunger strikes, and if you don't eat, you will feel very uncomfortable. This is also the most difficult part of losing weight. There is a rumor on the internet: "Pressing the hunger-relieving points before meals can help you lose weight." Is this true?

People with hot stomachs often feel hungry

Why do people feel hungry easily? Chen Chaozong, honorary chairman of the Taipei Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association and a Chinese medicine practitioner, said that Chinese medicine theory mentions "good appetite and easy hunger", which refers to a symptom of eating twice as much as usual and often feeling hungry. Which body types are prone to hunger? Mainly include: "Excessive stomach fire". Cause: mostly due to external dryness and heat, or liver depression turning into fire attacking the stomach, etc., resulting in excessive stomach heat and damage to yin due to excessive heat. Common symptoms: good appetite, easy hunger, thirst, weight loss, constipation, red tongue, dry yellow tongue coating with little fluid, and a slippery and strong pulse.

Another physical condition that makes people prone to hunger is "Yangming blood retention", which is mostly caused by long-term blood stasis and heat evil intertwined in the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in poor appetite and frequent hunger. Common symptoms include: good appetite and easy hunger, fever without aversion to cold, dry mouth and throat, hard and full lower abdomen, spontaneous urination, dark stools that are hard but easy to pass.

Eating until you are full can easily damage your spleen and stomach

In order to satisfy their hunger, some people try their best to eat as much as they can and love to eat a lot of meat and fish. What will be the consequences? Improper diet can easily damage the spleen and stomach, leading to food poisoning or food stagnation. Common symptoms include: vomiting due to food poisoning, sour and smelly vomiting, or foul breath, sour and smelly burping, abdominal distension, or pain and discomfort, restless sleep, dry stool, or sour and smelly diarrhea, thick and greasy tongue coating, etc.

Internet legend: "Just press the hunger-stopping point before meals to lose weight." Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Chaozong said that Chinese medicine believes that massaging the three acupoints of Neiting, Zhongwan and Zusanli can indeed adjust the functions of the spleen and stomach, and remind people to chew slowly when eating to make the body feel full, so that they will not feel hungry often. However, when you go out and massage these three acupoints, you need to take off your shoes and massage your legs, which is really inconvenient. It is recommended to use ear acupuncture to suppress appetite. The principle of auricular acupuncture point selection is based on the corresponding part of obesity. Sticking a compression pill on the surface of the ear point can continuously stimulate the point. It is safe, painless and has no side effects.

The recommended locations for auricular acupuncture are as follows:

1. Ear acupoint - hunger point: located above the earlobe and in the middle of the front of the tragus, it has the function of stimulating endocrine, reducing hunger and suppressing appetite. It is an important acupoint for weight loss. Because the area of ​​the acupoint is very small, it is recommended to stick ear beans to assist in stimulation.

2. Ear acupoint - thirst point: located slightly above the hunger point, it can reduce the feeling of thirst and control water intake and appetite. The area of ​​this acupoint is very small, so it is recommended to use ear beans to assist in stimulation.

Auricular acupoints are located on the ears and are usually pressed with magnetic beads or fenugreek seeds. They can be pressed when you feel hungry to suppress your appetite and avoid gaining weight due to overeating.

In addition to pressing acupoints and auricular acupuncture to suppress appetite, you should also pay attention to the following precautions in your daily diet:

【10 dietary considerations for weight loss】

1. The principle of weight loss is very simple. As long as the calorie output is greater than the calorie input, you will start to lose weight. As long as you pay attention to the calorie input and output every day, controlling your weight is actually not difficult.

2. Avoid overeating, overly refined diets, fried foods, salty flavors, thickened foods, processed products, sugary drinks, cakes and other high-calorie foods to reduce the intake of excessive calories.

3. It is important to note that food should have calorie and nutritional labels. If there are no labels, including production date, calories and ingredients, it will be difficult to identify, and you will have concerns about your health after consuming it.

4. Disadvantaged groups often have fewer opportunities to receive health education messages, and due to limited economic capabilities, they tend to buy low-nutrition, high-calorie foods.

5. Parents should be aware that unhealthy food advertisements combined with gift marketing may cause people to accidentally increase their intake of fat and sugary foods, which has a particularly great impact on children.

6. Reduce your daily calorie intake by 300 to 500 calories and increase your physical activity to burn an extra 200 calories, and you can lose about 0.5 kg per week. And when controlling your weight, you should pay attention to not less than 1200 calories per day. (Those who are sick, injured, pregnant or breastfeeding are advised to eat normally.) It is not advisable to lose weight too quickly. When losing weight, you should develop good living habits to avoid the vicious cycle of gaining and losing weight.

7. Drink enough boiled water, drink less sugary drinks, chew food slowly, avoid eating raw, cold fruits and cold foods, eat three meals on time, exercise moderately, eat low-fat and less fried food, eat five kinds of fruits and vegetables every day, eat a balanced diet, do not eat three hours before going to bed, do not eat too much at each meal (80% full), eat more natural and unprocessed foods, and do not eat snacks, midnight snacks or desserts.

8. It is recommended that you take public transportation on your way to and from get off work, and try to find time to walk to and from the station; or take the stairs instead of the elevator if you can. Not only does it save energy, it also increases your daily activity. Walk up a few floors before taking the elevator, slowly increasing your exercise intensity.

9. Do exercises while watching TV or ride a stationary bike or treadmill; help with housework or walk the dog; on holidays, it is recommended to go hiking with family members or engage in outdoor leisure activities, and reduce the time of static activities (avoid sitting for long periods of time watching TV, using the computer, or playing video games).

10. It is recommended to lead a more regular life: maintain a normal work and sleep schedule to prevent hormonal disorders from affecting metabolism and increasing the risk of obesity.