Clinical Study Of Acupuncture With Moxibustion On Obesity Of Splenic Deficiency Syndrome

Obesity is a kind of chronic disease related with heredity, nervous and endocrine system, habits of food and life, metabolizable turbulance and psychic factors. It results in the energy unbalance in which body absorption is greater than consuming and then excess energy called fat stay in the body. It is a too complex course to find out the pathogeny till now. Being a dangerous factor of many chronic uncontagions, it means a lot to prevent and cure obesity for alleviating diabetes, hypertension, blood oil turbulence, arteriosclerosis, gall-stone, stroke and cancer.Herbalist doctors regard spleen as the most important viscera. The spleen can govern transportation and transformation, and is the acquired base of life. All the nutrients needed could only come from food. And food is not only taken into your mouth and your stomach, but also digested by the spleen, and transported to the heart and the lung. The abnormal state of the functions of the spleen to transport and transform is called unhealthy transformation of spleen-qi. It will bring on the abnormal absorption coming with phlegm, edema and obesity in syndrome of asthenia of spleen.It shows acupuncture can normalize your nerves, incretion and matter metabolism, then lose your weigh. Moxibustion is good to splenic deficiency syndrome such as the turbulence of digestive system, energy and substance. Acupuncture with moxibustion stimulate the points combining acupuncture with moxibustion. That is what I am going to talk about.Methods: 30 cases were randomly divided into the observation group treated by acupuncture with moxibustion and the control group treated by electroacupuncture. The same points were used. It mainly was: Pishu, Guanyuan, Qihai, Tianshu, Zusanli, Yinlingquan, Sanyinjiao. And we added some other points when needed. The period of treatment is fifteen days. It was observed every two periods.