To lose weight, you must first understand the three major obesity types! Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and fat-burning tea are all good ways to lose weight

Traditional Chinese medicine has a way to help patients stay healthy and lose weight! However, before losing weight, you must first understand what type of obesity you have? A depressed middle-aged woman recently visited the doctor for the first time and said to Lai Jianming, director of the Acupuncture Department of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of Annan Hospital: "Doctor, I am getting fatter and fatter, and my husband no longer loves me. He doesn't come home to sleep at night... Please help me!" At first glance, the woman's relationship with her husband is on the verge of breaking up, and she blames this situation on her own obesity, appearing to have very little self-confidence.

Director Lai Jianming shared that women's obesity is caused by their long-term preference for iced coffee for breakfast, excessive addiction to cold drinks and irregular diet, which can cause the spleen to lose its healthy function and the internal generation of phlegm and dampness. In addition to Chinese medicine and acupuncture treatment, the follow-up treatment also included health education on diet control and encouragement to exercise more to maintain a good body shape. We hope that she will not only be healthy, but also quickly regain her happiness and confidence.

Director Lai Jianming used this case to point out that modern people's high-calorie diet and sedentary lifestyle easily lead to obesity, which not only affects appearance and body shape, but also endangers physical health. Diseases such as infertility, high blood pressure, diabetes, and degenerative arthritis become more likely to occur.

Lai Jianming, director of the Acupuncture and Traumatology Department of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of Annan Hospital, said that obesity in traditional Chinese medicine is mainly caused by "deficiency of yang energy and excess phlegm and dampness", of which fat is a type of "phlegm and dampness". (Photo courtesy of Annan Hospital)

3 types of body types that are prone to obesity

Obesity in traditional Chinese medicine is mainly caused by "deficiency of Yang Qi and excess of phlegm and dampness", of which fat is a type of "phlegm and dampness". By using professional Chinese medicine practitioners to diagnose and treat individual physical conditions and using Chinese medicine or acupuncture to regulate health, it is indeed possible to improve obesity and achieve healthy weight loss. Director Lai Jianming further introduced the three most common types of obesity:

1. Spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction type:

Symptoms include poor appetite, fatigue, heavy limbs, intestinal flatulence, soft and sticky stools, edema of the face and lower body in the morning, and obesity in the lower body. It can be treated by strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, and removing phlegm and reducing fat.

2. Qi and blood deficiency type:

The symptoms include loose and weak muscles, uniform obesity throughout the body, small appetite, easy weight gain despite eating little, fatigue, even dizziness, palpitations, cold hands and feet, and shortness of breath after the slightest movement. Metabolism can be enhanced by nourishing qi and blood.

3. Excessive stomach fire type:

The symptoms include good appetite, large food intake, overeating, fast digestion, easy hunger after eating, no dietary restrictions, oily face and skin, thirst, bad breath, mouth sores, incomplete excretion of stool, etc. It should be regulated by clearing stomach heat and moistening the intestines to promote bowel movements.

If acupuncture treatment is adopted, some acupoints can be selected for conditioning, such as: Shuifen, Daheng, Tianshu, Guanyuan, Zusanli, Fenglong, Yinlingquan, Neiting, etc., to promote water metabolism and help gastrointestinal digestion. In addition, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Annan Hospital has also developed a "fat-burning tea liquid package" that can be taken by people in need.