Nervous Stomach Anxiety: yin/yang explanation
Why You get Nervous Stomach Anxiety and How to Handle It. Acupuncture has great ways to help.
If acupuncture for weight loss works, how does it work, how long does it work for, and which acupuncture points do the trick? And will acupuncture do it without having to do anything else?
Given that World Health Organisation figures in 2005 showed that out of 6.5B humans worldwide then alive, 1.6Bn were overweight and 400M were obese, (which means just under a third of us were classified as overweight) and the problem is worsening, if acupuncture for weight loss works, why aren’t all acupuncturists rich?
Very good reasons!
But before answering, why would people wish to lose weight?
Here are some possibilities. You may or may not think they are reasonable, but here they are:
As a small aside, don’t forget that many people would like to weigh more! Thin or weedy, they’d love to ‘bulk up’ a bit. What about them? Can acupuncture help them?
And what about people who like to play sports, and athletes?
And let us avoid all the questions about BMI (click here for BMI) which show that you are over the recommended weight for your height etc. Let’s just assume that you want to lose weight, rightly or wrongly.
Acupuncture’s been used for between 3000 and 5000 years, that we know about for sure.
Not that long, if we put aside a small group at the elite top of society who have always had more money and fat, because of no need for physical work.
The rest of us, barring those with disease or inherited conditions, mostly haven’t been overweight simply because
For many, stress itself is an effective mechanism, though for others it stimulates the urge to eat. You’ll see why in a moment.
First, if you don’t have any surplus flesh, less politely called ‘fat’, then your reasons for losing weight, or indeed using acupuncture for weight loss, may not be so good:
Have you read about semaglutide drugs (like wegovy, ozempic)?
They seem to offer an effortless way to lose weight. But I don’t think it’s effortless – and they don’t work for everyone.
Click here to find out more and what Chinese medicine thinks about it!
If you are one of the above, going on exercise and diet regimes will not, from a Chinese medical perspective, be favourable for your long-term health.
Why? Because, although one salutes people such as fitness competitors and actors who have the determination to achieve physical goals, they often do so only by putting themselves through a process that Chinese medical practitioners might regard as being too extreme for long-term health.
People’s physiology is so different person-to-person that one cannot generalise. What one person finds easy would damage another.
But even so…
The thinking behind Chinese medicine tends to be long-term: they want you live a long time.
Over-straining joints when you are young, or starving yourself too often, means that those joints may not support you when you are old, and what is called your Spleen energy may become less reliable.
Of course, that doesn’t mean you should become a couch potato! Far from it, and learning Tai Chi for example is hard work and keeps you fit and helps weight loss.
But it seldom strains you, and it also seeks to exercise all your inner organs in a way that keeps them and you healthy.
So, assuming you aren’t one of those listed above, and you want to lose surplus ‘fat’ by using acupuncture for weight loss, what is ‘fat’ in Chinese medicine? And why are you making too much fat?
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