Obesity refers to accumulation of fat in the body due to the biochemical and physiological function. The 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. Chinese medicine believes that obesity is mainly due to disorder of the spleen meridian and stomach as well as dysfunction of defensive qi. The changes are blood sthenia and qi asthenia, exuberance of yin and deficiency of yan as well as disorder of qi and blood. Insufficiency of primordial qi affects metabolism of water and transformation of qi, consequently leading to obesity.

1, Some of obesity people have syndrome below: Easy to hunger, eat a lot of food, dry month and preference for drinking water, aversion to heat and profuse sweating, irritability and susceptibility to rage, Constipation, yellow and scanty urine.

2, Some of obesity people have syndrome below: pale complexion and lips, poor appetite, abdominal distention after meal, spiritual lassitude and fatigue, palpitations and shortness of breath, somnolence and no desire to talk, loose stool or scanty urine and dropsy.

3, Some of obesity people have syndrome below: 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.

Acupuncture Treatment:
Use acupuncture points below:
Quchi (Li 11), Shangjuxu (St 37), Neiting (St44), Yinlingquan (SP9), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
For heat in the stomach and intestines: Hegu (LI 4), Zusanli (ST 36) are added.
For asthenia of stomach and spleen qi, Pishu (BL20), Zusanli (St 36) are added.
For insufficiency of renal primordial qi, Acupuncture Single Point Zhongwan (Cv 12), Acupuncture Single Point Guanyuan (CV 4) are added.