Suitable population: Those who need full-body or partial weight loss and have no fundamental diseases. Not suitable for pregnant women and children. Women within half a year postpartum should not use it either. Patients with weak constitution, pregnant women, menstruating women, those with bleeding tendencies, and individuals with a history of allergies should be cautious.
埋线: No daily acupuncture required (Editor in charge: Deng Qi)
Key points: There are many treatment methods for obesity, but many of them are long-term and prone to recurrence, often leading to treatment failure due to the inability of patients to persist. The thread embedding therapy is based on traditional Chinese medicine theory, using catgut to produce prolonged acupoint stimulation for therapeutic effects.
Ms. Feng has been a mother for a year now. She was slim before pregnancy but gained weight after childbirth. During an accidental encounter with her former colleague who had changed jobs, she learned about the thread embedding weight loss method. The treatment involves embedding threads every 15 days, with a typical course consisting of three sessions, eliminating the hassle of frequent acupuncture treatments for obese patients. Generally, 2-3 courses are needed for effectiveness. Shen Weidong, director of the Acupuncture Department at Shuguang Hospital affiliated with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, stated that acupoint thread embedding therapy originated in the 1960s and was originally used to treat other diseases such as neurasthenia. In recent years, it has started being used for obesity treatment. This therapy uses biodegradable "bio-protein threads" to suppress the excessive appetite and gastrointestinal digestion and absorption of obese individuals while stimulating their sensitive autonomic nerves to increase energy consumption, thereby achieving weight loss.
However, this weight loss method involves breaking the skin, so it cannot be conducted in beauty salons. Moreover, some institutions claim that they can reduce 18 pounds in an hour and a half, which, even if possible, is extremely dangerous. Any physical change should not occur rapidly in the short term, otherwise, there may be negative effects. Li Linghuo, director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Aesthetics Department at Time Plastic Surgery Hospital, warned that after thread embedding treatment, there might be sterile inflammatory reactions such as redness, swelling, heat, and pain within 1-5 days post-operation. Some cases may have a small amount of milky white exudate, all of which are normal reactions and usually do not require handling. However, if there is a lot of secretion, medical attention is necessary. Some patients may experience a slight rise in body temperature within 24 hours after treatment.
Expert review: This acupoint thread embedding method, called "green weight loss" by fashionistas, has the greatest advantage of being suitable for busy urban dwellers. Since the bio-protein threads implanted in the human body will naturally dissolve or be absorbed by the body within 15 to 30 days, they do not need to be removed. After thread embedding, the physiological, physical, and biochemical stimulation to the acupoints can last for 15 to 30 days or longer, continuously adjusting and repairing the local microcirculation under this benign stimulation.
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