The Clinical Effect Of Meridian Scrapping Combined Cupping Therapy In Simple Obesity

[Background]Simple obesity occurs when calorie intake is higher than calorie consumption that leads to over accumulation of fat and abnormality in distribution of fat; this means that bodily disease and metabolic disorder aren’t the causes of simple obesity. Obesity not only leads to appearance problem but also various diseases. As society develops, obesity prevalence is increasing; therefore, prevention and treatment of obesity are regarded important. Obesity treatment in m modern medicine focuses on diet, exercise, and change of action. Among the methods above, oriental medicine is more easily accepted by the patients than modern medicine is. There are many researches on oriental medicine treatment on obesity:sole treatment and combined treatment etc. Meridian scraping is very simple and efficient treatment that doesn’t accompany pain and side effect, so this treatment can be applied to people of all ages. Usually, meridian scraping-cupping treatment is applied to simple obesity in clinical trials. Therefore, in this study, I would like to compare efficacy of meridian scraping-cupping therapy and the exclusive meridian scraping treatment.[Purpose]This study aims at investigating the clinical effects of the meridian scraping-cupping combination therapy on simple obesity patients, and at establishing the basic foundation to improve the safety of treatment, find a better therapy, and help researches take a major step forward.[Methods]60 females of simple obesity, who met the qualifications of research subjects, were divided at random into a treatment group and a control group. Meridian scrapping-cupping therapy was applied to treatment group once a week. The exclusive meridian scrapping therapy was applied to control group once a week. After 12 weeks, I compared changes in body composition, blood lipid level and body satisfaction before/after treatment.The statistical processing was performed using Spss 18.0, and to compare the treatment and the control group, T-test, Paired t-test, repeated measures ANOVA test were conducted because the two groups had been expected to display normal distribution. When p<0.05, it was assessed to be statistically meaningful.[Result]1. Body composition change(1) The meridian scraping - cupping therapy caused decrease in the obesity patients’weight, body fat, BMI, fat percentage, degree of fatness, waist size, buttocks size, thickness of abdominal subcutaneous fat and WHR, and increase in their muscle amount and basal metabolic rate(p<0.05)(2) The exclusive meridian scraping therapy brought about the decrease of the obesity patients’ weight, body fat, BMI, fat percentage, obesity degree, waist size, buttocks size, thickness of abdominal subcutaneous fat, and WHR, and the increase in the amount of muscle and basal metabolic rate(p<0.05)(3) The meridian scraping-cupping therapy was more effective for decreasing thickness of abdominal subcutaneous fat (p<0.05)(4) The cure rate of the meridian scraping-cupping therapy was 83.3% and that of the exclusive meridian scraping therapy was 80.3%, no statistically meaningful differences were found between the two groups(p>0.05). The cure rates of both groups were very high.2. Blood lipid changeThe meridian scraping-cupping therapy was effectual to lower the numerical value of the total cholesterol and triglyceride in the blood lipid (p<0.05), exclusive meridian scraping therapy was efficacious to lower the numerical value of triglyceride (p<0.05)3. Physical satisfactionThe meridian scraping-cupping therapy and the exclusive meridian scraping therapy increased the BCS score regarding the physical satisfaction, and decreased the BET score, but the meridian scraping-cupping therapy worked better than the exclusive meridian scraping therapy for the decrease of the BET score(p<0.05).【Conclusions】It is describe above, both meridian scraping -cupping therapy and exclusive meridian scraping therapy also brought changes (blood lipid level and body composition). However, meridian scraping-cupping combination therapy was more effective for decreasing thickness of abdominal subcutaneous fat.