Advocates of acupuncture for weight loss believe that acupuncture can stimulate the body’s energy flow (chi) to impact factors that can reverse obesity such as increasing metabolism, reducing appetite, lowering stress and affecting the part of the brain that feels hunger.
Weight gain, according to traditional Chinese medicine, is caused by body imbalance. This imbalance, according to ancient teachings, can be caused by a malfunctioning of the liver, spleen, kidney, thyroid gland or endocrine system.
So, for weight loss, acupuncture treatments commonly target these areas of the body.