General Survey on Treatment of Obesity with Acupuncture
- Author:
Qinfeng HUANG
;
Zhengming WANG
;
Lizhen QI
;
Yuanchun XIAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Obesity;
Acupuncture-Moxibustion;
Review Literature
- From:
Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science
2004;2(2):8-9
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This paper statistically analyzes sixty-two articles concerning the treatment of obesity with acupuncture, and finds that the common therapy embraces needling, moxibustion, electroacupuncture, ear acupuncture, auricular application, auricular needle-embedding, acupoint application, acupoint embedding and combined methods of acupuncture. The frequent auricular acupoints are Stomach (MA-IC), Endocrine (MA-IC 3), Er Shenmen (MA-TF 1), Lung (MA-IC 1), Spleen (MA-IC), Hunger Point (MA-T) and Sanjiao (MA-IC 4). The clinical total effective rate was 75.8%.