A Clinical Trial of Thread-embedding Therapy at Acupuncture Point for Simple Obesity

A Clinical Trial of Acupoint Thread-embedding Therapy for Simple Obesity

Thread-embedding Therapy has been used for treating Obesity in recent years. This research is aimed to observe the clinical effect of thread-embedding therapy in treating Simple Obesity. One hundred patients is planned to be enrolled in the research and receive a thread-embedding therapy. The level of BMI, serum triglyceride, cholesterol and fasting blood glucose will be adopted for evaluation before and after therapy.

Each participant will receive thread-embedding therapy every two weeks, and eight times in all.Blood test will be taken at the beginning of the first week of the whole therapy, and at the end of the 8th therapy. During the periods of whole therapy, the participants shall follow diets control and physical exercise as the protocol described.

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with age from 18 to 60 years old;
• patients with BMI≥ 24, meanwhile waist more than 85 cm (for male) or 80 cm (for female);
• patients with diagnosed as central adiposity and/or Simple obesity according to the diagnosis criteria；
• patients who is willing to cooperate with the test treatment and signed informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant or lactating women;
• patients who Syncope after acupuncture；
• patients who present hypersensitivity reactions after acupoint-embedding therapy;
• patients with serious heart, liver, kidney, brain and other diseases;
• patients with severe primary diseases;
• patients with psychiatric diseases；
• patients who did not meet the criteria for the inclusion criteria while investigators find out during the trial;
• participants who did not complete dietary control and physical exercise as the protocol described.