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| Research on rules of selecting points in treating simple obesity with acupuncture and moxibustion |
| Hits 2040 Download times 2642 Received:March 14, 2011 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1673-9043.2011.02.10 |
| Key Words
simple obesity;acupuncture and moxibustion;rules of selecting points in acupuncture and moxibustion |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | ZHAO Qiang | The Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Institute of TCM, Tianjin 300120, China | | FENG Wei | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China |
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| [Objective] To explore the rules of selecting points in treating simple obesity with acupuncture and moxibustion. [Methods] The database of excel was set up and the literatures about treatment of simple obesity by acupuncture in Chinese Journal Full-text Database were cleaned up and analyzed. [Results] According to the selecting standard 158 modern literatures were included. The most used points are as follow:Sanyinjiao, Zusanli, Tianshu, Fenglong, Zhongwan etc.;In the selected channel the Stomach meridian, Spleen meridian, Ren meridian and Bladder channels are used mostly;The selected acupoint are mostly located on the the chest or the abdomen. Mu point, He point and lower-confluent point are the specific points with the most used frequency. [Conclusion] Acupuncture is a safe and effective approach for treating simple obesity. The selected points are mainly come from the Stomach, Spleen, Ren and Bladder channels. |
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