Traditional Chinese medicine slimming methods such as expectoration, diuresis, and dampness elimination, combined with acupuncture for weight loss.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Detox and Weight Loss Practical Plan: The Wisdom of Our Ancestors

expectorant therapy

Applicable symptoms: chest tightness, drowsiness and lethargy, phlegm obstruction in the throat, white and greasy tongue coating, and swollen tongue.

Commonly used medicinal materials include: dried tangerine peel, pinellia, poria cocos, immature bitter orange, perilla seed, and radish seed.

Recommended medicinal diet: Malt, Codonopsis, Poria, and Beef Tripe Soup

Ingredients: 500g beef tripe, 100g raw malt, 50g each of codonopsis, yam, and poria cocos, 6g each of dried tangerine peel, star anise, and fennel, appropriate amounts of ginger and pitted jujubes.

Instructions: 1. Soak the tripe, cut it into pieces, and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. 2. Add the medicinal herbs and simmer together. 3. Simmer over low heat for another 2 hours, then add salt, chicken bouillon, etc.

Detox and Weight Loss Practical Plan

Dissipation method

Applicable symptoms: Increased appetite, obesity and lethargy, abdominal distension and food stagnation, constipation and white tongue coating.

Commonly used medicinal materials: hawthorn is used to eliminate meat stagnation, medicated leaven is used to eliminate facial stagnation, and malt is used to eliminate food stagnation.

Recommended medicinal diet: Hawthorn and mung bean soup

Ingredients: 10g hawthorn, 10g lentils, 30g mung beans, 6g magnolia flower, salt, chicken bouillon, and scallions to taste.

Instructions: Soak lentils and mung beans in warm water until soft, then boil for 1.5 hours. Once cooked, add hawthorn and magnolia flower, simmer briefly, and then add seasonings.

Liver-soothing and bile-promoting method

Applicable symptoms: Obesity combined with liver qi stagnation, manifested as obesity accompanied by chest tightness and rib pain, irritability, dizziness, abdominal distension, and yellow tongue coating.

Commonly used medicinal materials include: Bupleurum, White Peony Root, Poria, Angelica Sinensis, Fried Gardenia, Moutan Bark, Magnolia Bark, Scutellaria, and Immature Bitter Orange.

Recommended medicinal dish: Angelica and Ginseng Chicken Soup

Ingredients: 500g chicken, 15g angelica root, 15g codonopsis root, a little scallion and ginger, a little salt.

Instructions: 1. Clean the chicken thoroughly, and wash the angelica root and codonopsis root. 2. Put the chicken from step 1, along with scallions, ginger, etc., into a pot and simmer to make soup.

Dehumidification method

Applicable symptoms: abdominal distension, feeling of fullness throughout the body, difficulty in movement, greasy tongue coating, and deep and thready pulse.

Commonly used medicinal materials include: Alisma plantago-aquatica, Poria cocos, Stephania tetrandra, and Astragalus membranaceus.

Albizia and Poria Soup: Ingredients: 15g Albizia bark, 12g Poria cocos, 10g Curcuma longa, 30g floating wheat, 15g lily bulb, 150g lean pork, 30g daylily, 6 pitted jujubes. Instructions: Wash all ingredients and simmer to make soup.

Other conditioning methods

This book suggests that regardless of the method chosen, one should first determine the cause of their obesity in order to achieve truly targeted treatment. The tea introduced below uses a variety of ingredients, thus combining multiple weight-loss benefits.

Recommended medicinal rose hibiscus tea

Ingredients: 1 tablespoon rosehips, 1 tablespoon hibiscus, 100 ml hot water, crushed ice as needed, 3 lychees, 500 ml mineral water, 2 tablespoons sugar

Instructions: 1. Place rosehips and hibiscus in a pitcher, pour in hot water and steep for about 3-4 minutes. Strain and let cool. 2. Place lychees and crushed ice in a glass, then pour in the rosehip and hibiscus juice. 3. Add mineral water and sugar to taste.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Detox and Weight Loss Practical Plan: The Wisdom of Our Ancestors

Detox and Weight Loss Practical Plan

□Acupuncture Weight Loss Method□

Acupuncture is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine. After thousands of years of application, it has shown remarkable effects in both localized weight loss and overall weight reduction. It is also widely welcomed due to its advantages such as simplicity, effectiveness, minimal pain, and few side effects.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that meridians and acupoints are distributed throughout the body, and each acupoint has special effects in preventing and treating diseases, and in strengthening the body. Applying acupuncture to specific acupoints can adjust the feeding center in the hypothalamus, blocking hunger signals and suppressing the feeling of hunger, thereby reducing food intake. At the same time, acupuncture therapy has a beneficial regulatory effect on autonomic nervous system function, which is also key to achieving weight loss.

Commonly used acupuncture points for body weight loss

Tian Shu (ST25): Two inches to the side of the navel. Regulates the stomach and intestines, eliminates food stagnation and indigestion.

Guanyuan: Located on the anterior midline of the abdomen, two inches below the navel. It invigorates Qi, strengthens the body's foundation, promotes diuresis, and eliminates dampness.

Xuehai (SP10): Two inches above the upper inner border of the patella. It strengthens the spleen and eliminates dampness, and also regulates menstruation.

Yinlingquan: Located at the lower border of the medial condyle of the tibia, the depression is level with the tuberosity of the tibia. It strengthens the spleen and resolves dampness.

Sanyinjiao: Three cun above the medial malleolus, on the posterior border of the tibia. It nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the spleen, and promotes diuresis.

Quchi (LI11): With the elbow bent at 90 degrees, it is located 0.5 cun lateral to the head of the elbow crease. It clears heat and promotes diuresis.

Q: I heard that after acupuncture, you need to go back to have the needles removed after a period of time, otherwise it will not be effective. Is that true?

A: Acupuncture can promote metabolism and activate the circulation of meridians, which also have a metabolic period. Therefore, as metabolism gradually slows down, the circulation of some meridians becomes sluggish, leading to a slower metabolism and gradual weight gain. Thus, appropriately using acupuncture to strengthen the circulation of Qi and blood throughout the body is very important. Generally, after weight loss, you can adopt a regular maintenance acupuncture approach. This means that whenever you feel your weight is increasing, you should return to your doctor for an acupuncture evaluation to determine the course of treatment; or you can focus on maintenance, such as returning for a checkup before and after large meals to increase metabolism and burn off calories-this is called "closing the acupuncture session."

Q: Is it dangerous to apply moxibustion to the wrong acupoint?

A: Generally, acupuncture methods involve inserting needles into acupoints on the body. Attention is paid to the thickness of subcutaneous fat and the needling sensation of acupoints in obese individuals. It is rare to make a mistake in acupuncture. However, when using abdominal needle embedding or thread embedding methods, special attention must be paid to the location. Otherwise, if the needle remains on the abdomen for too long or is inserted too deeply, side effects such as inflammation, hiccups, and fever can easily occur.

Q: How long does it take for acupuncture to show results?

A: Generally, you'll see results after about 3 acupuncture sessions. If you combine this with dietary control, such as reducing your intake of starches and fats, the metabolism-boosting effect of acupuncture will be even faster, sometimes resulting in a weight loss of 0.5 to 1 kilogram per week. (Note: When you're trying to metabolize body fat, avoid consuming too much fat and starch.)