Simple Obesity Treatment In Animals Model Using Chinese Herbs And Acupuncture

The Simple Obesity is a disorder that is increasing in importance and prevalence actuality. Obesity can viewed as a consequence of the interaction between environmental forces and the individual genetic substrate, for this reason the cure is unlinked. The treatment is important due to the associated health risks but this kind of treatment is made difficult because few effective drugs have been available and the main disadvantage of most obesity drugs are the side effects.The Traditional Chinese Medicine method to lose weight will be a new way in the treatment of the Simple Obesity.Clinically, the Simple Obesity is always due to energy intake that is greater than energy expenditure causing a chronic energy imbalance, resulting in the accumulation of fat in the body.Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) views that obesity is closely related to the spleen and stomach. It is mainly caused by over-eating greasy, sweat and spicy food which transforms in to the heat and produces fire, leading to hyperactivity of yang in the middle energizer, excessive heat in the stomach, over-eating and excessive appetite and hyper-nutrition, finally leading to obesity. Alternatively, it is caused by damp due to the spleen deficiency , retention of phlegm and damp, or by yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney and retention of damp , manifested by edema and obesity; according to that the simple obesity is basically caused by spleen qi deficiency, accumulation of phlegm and damp, blood stasis, deficiency of kidney and stomach heat, the spleen is unable to transform and transport body fluid resulting in accumulation of damp phlegm between the skin and muscles .This is the principal physio-pathologycal mechanism to imply in the Simple Obesity according to TCM.This research use Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs and Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs together to produce lose weight using 5 groups of rats.The first step in this research was obtain the obesity animal model and the corresponding obesity weight data and the second step was give Traditional Chinese Medicine lose weight treatment according to each treatment groups of rats to obtain the corresponding lose weight data.The Acupuncture prescriptions use the acupuncture points (housanli, sanyinjiao, neiting) and electro acupuncture in these points.The ingredients of the Chinese Herbs prescription are: 大黄 (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei) 10g,泽泻 (Rhisoma Alismatis tuber) 10g, 茯苓(Poria sclerotium)10g.The weight/height changes in each groups of rats were evaluate and the blood tests, and histopathology tests changes also were evaluated shown the Acupuncture Treatments has good lose weight effect in treating Simple Obesity due to that treatments could activate the metabolism of energy increase the energy consumption, and speed up the lipid catabolism, hence the weight-reducing effect recovering the normal serum cholesterol , LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides values and the fat tissues normal morphology and release internal heat ,improved the spleen function to transform and transport the food inside the body. As a word, these research shown that Acupuncture Treatment has an important ami obesity effects and remarkable improved effects on the lipid catabolism in experimental rats, without obvious adverse reactions.