Can Acupuncture Help With Weight Loss?
Although acupuncture is generally used to treat illnesses and other health problems, many weight loss experts believe that it can also be used to treat excess weight. However keep in mind that, acupuncture is strictly an aid to your weight loss, and not the magic pill to lose weight so to speak.
In other words, you cannot consume tons of calories and eat junk food and expect acupuncture alone to make you lose weight. Let’s see exactly how acupuncture is said to help with weight loss, and you will see why. How Can Acupuncture Help with Weight Loss? Below are how acupuncture is said to help with weight loss. So it possibly may help a lot with weight loss, but it does not give you a free pass to consume a lot of calories or fattening foods.
On the other hand, if you are having difficulty with increased appetite or sluggish metabolism, acupuncture may help tremendously with your weight loss. The side benefit of acupuncture is that with the blocked energy (called “chi”) being released, your overall health may also improve. Can Acupuncture Help With Weight Loss?
More frequent sessions are typically recommended by acupuncturists for people looking for faster weight loss, or for people having severe overeating issues. For average patients, the recommended frequency will probably be 1-3 times a week, depending on his/her condition and goal. Typically at least 10 treatments are recommended for weight loss results.
You can expect the acupuncturist to stick very fine needles into your ear and stomach and other body parts. The acupuncturist may use electro stimulation, meaning he/she may circulate electricity throughout your body through the needles. The acupuncturist may also tape ear tacks onto your ears after the treatment. Ear tacks are tiny needles inserted into the ear and held in place by an adhesive.
Whenever you have an urge to eat, you can rub the ear tack and it is supposed to remove your temptation to eat. The acupuncturist may also give you some Chinese herbal tea to drink in between sessions. These may not be very tasty. Make sure the acupuncturist is licensed in your state. If you have other health issues, make sure to tell the acupuncturist, and have him/her treat those conditions as well if possible. Two birds with one session. Occasional soreness in needle points may occur, but if it happens too often, you may want to find a new acupuncturist.
I found myself practicing breathing more and actually filling out my stomach. Cool I like - thank you anglnwu - I think our tour guide made the difference. She was just so good and so well informed - and she constantly gave us a running commentary about everything. I'm a big believer in feng-shui too so to hear her talk about the good luck bok choy - and the lucky number 8 - she was wonderful! Thanks for all the great comments!
This is such a cool story--experiencing TCM in Beijing,no less. Funny too, if you ask me. We practice lots of that in Singapore, as our ancestors were from China. Thank you for sharing. I like Eastern Medicine, but I especially like it now I know their pholosophy about having a stomach pouch. I didn't know that, but I think breathing is important. I hope he wasn't teasing.
Terrific hub, now I want to go to Beijing. Great hub about TCM. Informative and entertaining at the same time. I'm with most people here; I haven't been to an allopathic doctor since 1990 when I got real sick with upper respiratory track problems. After that, I started paying very close attention to my health. Have been very healthy since, except for the flu back in August and a shoulder problem that lasted several months. Both those problems came from acute stress. Have taken steps to reduce the stress and, at almost 60, am feeling fine now.
Sounds from you description of TCM diagnostic procedures that they consider the body a hologram where every part of the body contains the whole body. Does that make sense? As always powerful stuff! Incredibly, God has always given us all the medicine we need, and men decided to synthesize it.
Because of big fish greed they add some other stuff that in the long run are not good for us. So if it is dangerous to self-medicate, it is much more to do it with medicine whose content is chemical rubbish. What a very interesting hub and to experience this in China was a great experience for you. You explained things very well.
Hello hellomoo - there is so very much more to TCM beginning with another branch of Chinese medicine known as CCM! We were absolutely overwhelmed when we went to the clinic - there were so many exhibits and ancient books and then the figure with all the acupuncture points. I'm glad your parents go on and on about TCM - it is something we should embrace - and here in the US, where our medical profession is not health-driven but profit-driven - we are embracing so-called alternative practices.
I read many years ago that one of the philosophies of TCM was to keep people healthy - and that way they can pay their bills! Here in the U.S. Nice to meet you by the way! Thanks for the explanation about the herbs. I am chinese and grew up in the UK, with my parents going on about chinese medicine but i didn't really understand it.
I had conflicting issues since I understood western medicine better -having had a western education. I do think there is a lot to be said for TCM but it needs to be regulated so it can get the credit it deserves. I was surprised at the massive size of Beijing - it is a gigantic city! Due to the Olympics, there is amazing new architecture! The Bird's Nest stadium is a beautiful design and that Olympic bubble pool - so unique. There is so much to China that I'd like to go again and again and spend much more time.
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