Chin J Integr Med
August 2015
Objective: To observe the clinical effificacy of treatment with catgut implantation at acupoints on simple obesity.
Methods: Following the theory of Chinese medicine (CM), pattern identification (PI) and treatment was based on the patient's symptoms and signs. Patients were observed during three courses and one year following treatment through self-comparison before and after six or seven acupoints catgut implantation.
Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi
June 2004
Objective: To explore the mechanism of acupuncture in treating obesity complicated with climacteric syndrome (OCCS).
Methods: Thirty female OCCS patients were treated by acupuncture, combination of body and auricular acupuncture, according to the treating principle based on syndrome differentiation. The changes in symptoms, signs, obesity index, Kupperman index, vegetative nerve system equilibrium index (Y value), levels of estradiol (E2), luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), leptin (LP), insulin (INS), nitric oxide (NO), nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and insulin activation index (IAI) in patients were observed.