Accupuncture Helps Reduce Weight

Acupuncture is a 5000-year-old practice. This practice enables one to loose weight effectively. It also makes it easy to maintain that loss of weight if the individual is willing to change their lifestyle.

It is a successful way to loose weight on a long-term basis. This is one reason why this practice is such a major hit.

Acupuncture weight loss treatment involves inserting of hair-thin needles into particular spots on the skin that are believed to help the body function properly. Insertion of needles leads to release of endorphins, which have a calming and relaxing effect that makes it easier to deal with stress, frustration, and anxiety that can trigger overeating and bingeing on fattening foods.

Also, releasing of endorphins-the feel good factors, help control appetite to a great extent. Endorphins help affect the digestive and hormonal systems so acupuncture can help rebalance the organ systems, which in case of obesity are too slow.

In the case of overweight patients, the acupuncture specialist will first ask a variety of questions and perform an examination. The acupuncturist would check the individuals pulse to discern the general state of energy and would measure the health of his/her stomach energy in particular, and then they would look at the tongue to check for cracks, peeling or puffiness on the stomach area, or a suspicious yellow or thick white coating that might indicate troublesome heat or coldness in the stomach and would provide some clues as to why the person is gaining weight.

Many of the body points that are important for weight loss treatments in acupuncture are

• Mouth – for the impulsive eater who may also smoke a lot and talk a lot
• Stomach – for the person who eats even after they’re full or who’s constantly nibbling
• Hungry – for general appetite control
• Lung – for food addicts, and people who love chocolate, sweets
• Shenmen – a calming point, for the psychology overlay for anxiety, anger, frustration,insecurity
• Endocrine – for water retention that’s responsible for some of the weight gain
• Adrenal and Ovary – if weight gain is due to menopause or P.M.S.
• Spleen – for sugar imbalances and hormonal disturbances
• Kidney – for water retention, and nervous system and hormonal imbalances
• Thyroid – for slow metabolism

Once the root cause of the problem is identified, the acupuncture specialist will choose two or more of these points   and insert needles into different areas of the body in order to help improve the body’s functioning in a way that will promote weight loss.

For effective results it is necessary that acupuncture treatments be repeated at regular intervals. Attention should also be paid to diet and exercise. The acupuncture specialist may provide the patient with certain guidelines as to what to avoid eating in order to promote the regular flow of energy throughout the body as well.

Try out this technique and feel the difference.