The Clinical Acupuncture Research About The Effect Of Strengthen The Spleen To Dampness To Cure Simple Obesity

Background:Fat is a common nutritional disease disorders, along with social and economic development, it has become one of the serious harm to human health and disease. Obesity not only affects the appearance of the body, causing the patient psychologically inferior.Epidemiological and clinical studies found that with the body mass index and waist circumference increasing, the obesity-related diseases risk also increases.Currently known disease closely associated with obesity, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension, type2diabetes (T2DM) and dyslipidemia and so on. Advantages of acupuncture for treatment of simple obesity has been clinically proven, its efficacy, toxic side effects, low cost, easy to procure, etc. It is widely accepted by obese patients, it is a "green" method of treating the true sense.Purpose:Clinical acupuncture research on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine about how to cure of simple obesity of spleen dampness, to find the way how to use the acupuncture treatment in acupuncture prescription.Method:60cases of obese patients with spleen dampness were randomly divided into two groups. One group (n=30)accept the acupuncture treatment by strengthen the spleen to dampness.While the other group(n=30) accept the treatment with "Cullen eight points".Both give electric-acupuncture respectively.Observe the changes of obesity index (weight, waistline, hipline, thighline, calf circumference,biceps circumference, BMI, percentage of body fatt) before and after acupuncture treatment. SPSS17.0software was performed in the statistical analysis.Result:After treatment, the patients’weight, waistline, hipline, thighline, BMI, percentage of body fat of two groups were all descended(P<0.01). Comparing the value of each index declined, suggesting that the treatment group weight, hipline, BMI, FAT significant decline in the value of statistical no significance (P<0.05) by two independent samples T-test compared with the control group, the difference; waist circumference and thighline have no statistically significant difference between the two (P>0.05).After three courses, efficient and significant efficiency rank sum test after discoveryt, P<0.05, with a difference, indicating that the treatment by strengthen the spleen to dampness has a better efficacy than che Cullen eight points.Conclusion:The acupuncture treatment based with traditional Chinese medicine of strengthen spleen to dampness have a better efficacy than "Cullen eight-point" about simple obesity.