9 Chinese medicine weight loss tips, female Chinese medicine practitioner teaches you how to master them all at once

I have tried many methods to lose weight but failed. What should I do? Losing weight is not just about losing weight, but about reaching a certain standard of body fat percentage. Chinese medicine for weight loss is one of the important methods of weight loss in traditional Chinese medicine. It can help you regulate your physical condition, treat the symptoms and the root cause, and gradually eliminate obesity. The following are 9 tips for weight loss using traditional Chinese medicine, we will teach you how to master them all at once!

1. Dehumidification method

It is used for the so-called spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction type in people who are obese due to imperfect spleen and stomach function, which makes it difficult for moisture and waste to be utilized or excreted and accumulate in the skin. Such patients are obese and bloated, and often feel abdominal distension, dizziness, sallow complexion, fatigue, lower limb edema, loose stools, greasy white tongue coating, and thin, smooth pulse. This type is more common in middle-aged and elderly obese patients, especially women. When improper diet is sustained for a long time and the function of the spleen and stomach is damaged, and the body functions gradually decline after middle age, the metabolic function gradually decreases, and the spleen and stomach function becomes abnormal, causing the body to become bloated.

Treatment principle: Strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness and clear turbidity.

Prescription: Representative traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions such as Zexie Decoction, Ershu Siling Decoction, Fangji Huangqi Decoction, etc., and Shenling Baizhu Powder combined with Qingxiao Yin with modifications.

2. Expectorant method

It is used for obese patients with phlegm and turbidity. Such patients have a particularly good appetite and are gourmets. They usually drink a lot at social events, have weight loss, are sleepy and lazy, and are accompanied by dizziness and chest tightness, or women with infertility, amenorrhea, greasy or yellow tongue coating, and a stringy and slippery pulse, which is the so-called phlegm and turbidity obstruction type. The ancients had a saying that "fat people have more phlegm." This type is mostly caused by overeating of fatty and sweet foods, which damages the spleen and stomach, causing endogenous dampness and heat. Dampness turns to heat, which turns into phlegm. The phlegm blocks the blood vessels, causing blockage of the collaterals, accumulation of fat, and obesity.

Treatment principle: Regulate the spleen and resolve phlegm.

Prescription: For mild cases, use Erchen Decoction combined with Zexie Decoction and Sanzi Yangqin Decoction with modifications. Tangerine peel, Pinellia, Poria, Acorus calamus, Polygala, Alisma orientalis, and wax gourd peel. For severe cases, use Kongxiandan, Daotantang, etc.

3. Water-removing method

It is used for obese patients with spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction type who have abdominal distension, lower limb edema, or even swelling of the whole body, difficulty urinating, thin white and light tongue coating, and slow pulse. There is a difference between small profits and promotion. For mild cases, use Wupi Yin, Daoshui Fuling Tang, Xiaofenqing Yin. For severe cases, use Zhouche Wan, Shizao Tang, etc.

Representative prescriptions include: Wupi Drink (mulberry bark, tangerine peel, ginger peel, dried tangerine peel, red Poria peel); Wuling Powder (Alisma, Poria, Polyporus, Atractylodes, Cassia Twig); Daoshui Fuling Decoction (red Poria, Ophiopogon, Alisma, Atractylodes, mulberry bark, Perilla, papaya, dried tangerine peel, Amomum, costus root); Qipi Drink (Dacang peel, tangerine peel, Poria peel, ginger peel, Citrus aurantium, Rehmannia root, Licorice peel); boil the above medicines in water and drink to eliminate dampness, regulate qi and strengthen the spleen.

4. Bowel-clearing method

Mainly mild soft stools. It is mostly used for obese people who like to eat greasy or fried food. Most of these patients are moderately obese and eat more. They get hungry easily, have red faces and are afraid of heat, have dry mouth and want to drink, have big bellies, are prone to constipation or dry stools, do not like to exercise, become short of breath when they move, and have thick and greasy yellow tongue coating. This type is more common in teenagers, pregnant women and those who gain weight after childbirth, the so-called stomach heat accumulation type.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the organs of storage, the stomach is responsible for receiving, and the spleen is responsible for transportation and transformation. The food taken in by the stomach is fermented and heated in the stomach, and its essence is transformed by the spleen and distributed to the internal organs, meridians, limbs and joints to nourish the whole body. If you eat too much, the food and water you eat will transform into a lot of essence, and the spleen will be burdened with transporting and distributing this essence, which will exceed its function of transporting and transforming. This is not due to insufficient spleen function, but rather a sign of overload, referred to here as "stagnation of the spleen." As a result, the fine substances that cannot be transported and distributed by the spleen accumulate in the body, turn into fat, and cause obesity.

Treatment principle: Clear the stomach and relieve heat, unblock the bowels and resolve stagnation.

Prescription: You can choose Dachengqi Decoction, Xiaochengqi Decoction, Tiaoweichengqi Decoction or single-ingredient rhubarb tablets, or Xiaochengqi Decoction combined with Qingtongyin with modifications.

5. Digestion-promoting method

Used for obese people with hyperphagia. Patients of this type have a strong appetite for all kinds of food and eat a large amount, are obese and lazy to move, have a bloated abdomen, indigestion, plump and tender skin, red face and dry tongue, white or yellow tongue coating, and a slippery and strong pulse.

Representative prescriptions of this treatment method include: Baohe Pills (hawthorn, Shenqu, malt, Pinellia, Poria, Tangerine Peel, Forsythia, Radish Seed); Zhishi Daozhi Pills (rhubarb, Zhishi, Shenqu, Poria, Coptis, Scutellaria, Atractylodes, Alisma); Sanxian Drink (hawthorn, Shenqu, malt). All of the above prescriptions are used to digest food, eliminate stagnation, eliminate fat and resolve accumulation. Generally, hawthorn is used to eliminate meat accumulation, Shenqu is used to eliminate surface accumulation, and malt is used to eliminate food accumulation. Together they are called Sanxian Drink, which has a certain effect on obesity caused by overnutrition.

6. Liver-soothing and gallbladder-promoting method

It is used for obesity accompanied by liver depression, qi stagnation (inability to express one's will, depression type) or blood stasis. Symptoms include obesity accompanied by distension and pain in the flanks, irritable personality, headache, bitter taste in the mouth, yellow eyes, aversion to greasy food, frequent dizziness, fatigue, abdominal distension, yellow tongue coating and red tongue, and stringy pulse, which is the so-called liver depression and qi stagnation type.

Treatment principle: Soothe the liver and regulate qi, clear away heat and reduce fire.

Prescriptions: Shuganyin, Wendantang, Shuganyin (Bupleurum, Curcuma, Turmeric, Menthus), Xiaozhangsan (Amomum, Radish Seed), Xiaoyaosan (Pills), etc. are commonly used with additions and subtractions.

7. Strengthening the spleen

It is used for patients with so-called pseudo-obesity to strengthen the spleen and stomach and replenish the kidney qi to restore the body's normal circulation and metabolism and thus lose weight. This type of patients often have weak spleen, poor appetite, obesity, fatigue and weakness, white tongue coating and light red tongue, and thin and weak pulse.

Treatment principle: Invigorate Qi and strengthen the spleen, warm and nourish the spleen and kidneys. Commonly used prescriptions include Shenling Baizhu Powder (ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, licorice, yam, white hyacinth bean, lotus seed, Coix seed, Amomum villosum, tangerine peel); Yigong Powder (Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, licorice, tangerine peel); Wuling Powder (Poria cocos, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, cinnamon twig, Alisma orientalis); Zhishu Pills, etc.

8. Warming Yang Method

It is used for obesity of yang deficiency type. Most of these patients have symptoms of spleen and kidney yang deficiency, such as easy sweating, shortness of breath, wheezing when moving, easy fatigue and weakness, soreness or edema of waist and legs, fat tongue with white coating, thin and deep pulse, fear of cold, etc.

Treatment principle: Warming Yang and eliminating dampness. The commonly used ones are Jisheng Shenqi Pills, Jiawei Shenqi Pills, Gancao Fuzi Decoction, Linggui Zhugan Decoction, Zhenwu Decoction, etc. with modifications. This type is more common in obese patients with obesity combined with diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, hypothyroidism and some chronic diseases. Because the spleen is the foundation of acquired constitution and the kidney is the foundation of innate constitution, they jointly dominate the body's yang energy and jointly complete the process of gasification and transportation of water and moisture. Yang deficiency of the spleen and kidneys causes inability to transport and transform water and dampness. The food we eat cannot be warmed and distributed, but instead turns into dampness and turbidity that overflows into the skin, causing the person to appear fat.

9. Yin nourishing method

It belongs to the Yin fluid depletion type in obese people, with symptoms of constipation and weak pulse; those with both Qi and Yin deficiency show symptoms of eating too much and getting hungry easily, dry mouth and sweating, fatigue, palpitations and shortness of breath, dizziness and tinnitus, hot hands and feet, and a red tongue with little coating.

Representative prescriptions for this treatment include: Zhibai Dihuang Pills (Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Phellodendron chinense, Chinese yam, Cornus officinalis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Paeonia suffruticosa, Poria cocos, Alisma orientalis); Dabuyin Pills (Phellodendron chinense, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Rehmannia glutinosa, Turtle shell, porcine spinal cord); Baozhen Decoction (Ginseng, Achillea millefolium, Atractylodes macrocephala, Licorice, Red and White Poria cocos, Schisandra chinensis, Chinese angelica, Raw Rehmannia glutinosa, Rehmannia glutinosa, Asparagus cochinchinensis, Ophiopogon japonicus, Red Peony Root, White Peony Root, Bupleurum chinense, Magnolia officinalis, Lycium bark, Phellodendron chinense, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Lotus seed, Tangerine peel, Ginger, Jujube), etc. Boil the above medicines in water and drink it to nourish yin, clear heat, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements.

Reminder: Since obesity is not formed in a short period of time, it is not easy to eliminate it as soon as possible, so it is generally recommended to take heavier dosages. However, for patients with weak constitution, the dosage should be carefully selected to avoid excessive haste and causing other discomforts. At the same time, while taking Chinese medicine, you should also adjust your diet reasonably, strictly control your food intake, eat mainly light food, eat less high-fat food, and insist on a large amount of exercise to achieve the goal of weight loss.