Acupuncture and weight loss, beauty and risks coexist. Recently, incidents of internal organ damage and sudden death caused by acupuncture and weight loss in unqualified beauty institutions have occurred from time to time. The relevant person in charge of the health department said that medical beauty treatments such as acupuncture and weight loss must be approved by the health administrative department. Among the relevant regulations that will be introduced within the year, medical treatments such as acupuncture, weight loss, and beauty treatments will be strictly distinguished from traditional health care. Experts emphasize that acupuncture is mainly used in acupuncture. This is a medical method that invades the human body and has certain risks. Non-medical personnel are not allowed to operate it. However, reporters found that despite repeated orders, a considerable number of the hundreds of various forms of acupuncture, weight loss, beauty and rehabilitation institutions in Shanghai still have no medical qualifications. Some beauty salons are unscrupulous and take advantage of the rules, causing constant harm. According to a search from the Municipal Traditional Chinese Medicine Archives, improper acupuncture has caused damage to the heart, lungs, liver and other internal organs in China in recent years, and has even spread blood diseases such as AIDS, resulting in loss of life. Relevant experts remind that the most important thing about acupuncture for weight loss is to choose a medical institution with formal qualifications. For patients with contraindications to acupuncture for weight loss, a scientific and healthy weight loss method that combines diet and exercise should be promoted. ●Reporter's investigation ◆Acupuncture and weight loss fees vary. As the weather warms up, acupuncture and weight loss are also rising sharply in Shanghai. Many beauty salons also post advertisements for acupuncture and weight loss. According to an incomplete statistics from the Acupuncture Industry Association, there are more than 70 beauty salons and barber shops in this city engaged in acupuncture for weight loss. Recently, the reporter conducted an on-site visit. The reporter found that in different institutions, the charges for acupuncture and weight loss vary. The reporter learned from the weight loss center of the outpatient department of the Shanghai Acupuncture and Meridian Research Institute that a course of acupuncture and weight loss here is 10 times, and the fee is 150 yuan each time. The maximum cost of the entire course of treatment is 1,500 yuan. In beauty salons, reporters found that some places charge 3,000 yuan for a course of treatment, and the highest charge even reaches 6,000 yuan for a course of treatment. To the reporter's surprise, not all those who come here to receive acupuncture to lose weight are fat. Many of them are young female white-collar workers with delicate figures. According to reports, among the female population, there are two main groups, one is white-collar women, and the other is menopausal women. ◆Acupuncture is accompanied by the promotion of weight loss drugs. The reporter learned that, generally speaking, TCM acupuncture for weight loss is planned, and regular acupuncturists will provide syndrome differentiation treatment according to the different conditions of each patient. However, regardless of the nature of obesity, generally no more than 20 acupuncture needles will be inserted at one time. In some beauty salons, hundreds of needles may be inserted at one time. Acupuncture pays attention to the "deqi" effect. Only when you have the feeling of acupuncture can you have good results. However, many beauty salons don't understand this and just stick to the general acupuncture points. Therefore, even though hundreds of needles were inserted all over the body, they were all very shallow and could not achieve the real effect. However, failure to achieve results is the intention of these beauty salons. In this way, they can consider other measures for those who lose weight, such as formulating treatment auxiliary recipes and taking the health products and nutritional products they prepare. Most of these nutritional products are fiber and spiral bath type health foods. Many promoted foods contain appetite suppressants. After eating them, you may have some reactions, such as palpitations, chest tightness, weakness and dry mouth, and some may cause irreversible damage to the heart. ◆“Quick Acupuncture Practitioners” are frequently released. An acupuncturist in a beauty salon revealed that they usually only receive some short-term acupuncture training before jumping into the field in a hurry. Another doctor who declined to be named told reporters that he graduated from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine more than 10 years ago and has a practicing physician license. I served as a teacher for these short-term training courses last year. Most of the students came from beauty salons. Some students have now opened their own businesses, and some are doing acupuncture in beauty salons. After short training, students will receive a completion certificate. It is reported that there are many training courses like this, some borrowing university venues, and many training courses even use fake graduation certificates from the Municipal Acupuncture Research Institute and Bian Que Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Research School. Various beauty salons use such "deception" to win the trust of various customers and earn huge profits. ●Expert opinion ◆It takes 5 years to become an acupuncture doctor for weight loss. Han Zhong, chief physician of the outpatient department of Shanghai Acupuncture and Meridian Research Institute, told reporters that it generally takes at least 5 years to learn acupuncture for weight loss. After 5 years of undergraduate study, if you have a graduate degree, you can master acupuncture and weight loss better in 2 or 3 years. First of all, doctors are required to have a qualified medical license as stipulated in the National Medical Doctor Law. Therefore, only registered doctors can perform acupuncture and weight loss treatment. However, short-term training of only 1 month or 3 months cannot carry out treatment; secondly, you must master clinical diagnosis experience and clinical operation skills, so that the needle can correctly hit the intestinal cavity network layer of the abdomen; in addition, master the relevant medical equipment. Experience and skills in use, such as being able to use electroacupuncture instrument, spectrum analyzer and leveling instrument, etc. At the same time, during use, it can be used according to the patient's condition. Dr. Han also said that not all Acupuncture doctors can all engage in acupuncture for weight loss. They need to undergo special training before they can gradually get involved in the analysis of the causes of obesity and the actual operation. Otherwise, it is easy to mislead and cause adverse problems.

There are more than 300 acupuncture points on the human body. It takes a real undergraduate one year to learn. How can a "short-term training doctor" in a beauty salon understand these acupuncture points thoroughly? ◆Beauticians cannot cope with patient accidents. Dr. Han said that some beauty salon acupuncturists are not familiar with anatomy and do not understand the important organs under acupuncture points and the direction of nerves and blood vessels. During the acupuncture process, weight loss may occur. Death due to intestinal perforation and other accidents. Therefore, punctures in the stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine and waist, multiple punctures in the liver, and death due to intrahepatic bleeding are prone to occur during weight loss. Beauty salons that do not refer to the regulations stipulated in the "Measures for the Administration of Medical Institutions" and the "Law of Practicing Physicians" are not allowed to perform weight loss. If an accident occurs, they do not have the rescue equipment, measures and experience to deal with it in a timely manner. Under non-medical conditions, even if a medical accident occurs, compensation is not available, and the beauty salon has no legal liability. During the weight loss process, weight loss patients may experience symptoms such as needle syncope (the patient faints), needle stagnation (the needle cannot be pulled out from the body), etc. Acupuncturists are required to respond to and handle various post-acupuncture reactions in a timely and accurate manner. In addition, when acupuncture is used to lose weight, some instant acupuncturists do not strictly sterilize the silver needles or use disposable silver needles, which may also cause the spread of blood diseases; red spots appear on the skin after acupuncture, and dermatitis appears within a few days. , skin lesions, etc. Some beauty salons do not use disposable silver needles. If they are used repeatedly, cross-infection may occur between needles, and therefore AIDS and hepatitis may also be transmitted. ◆It is illegal to operate acupuncture and weight loss without a license. Chen Qiang, captain of the law enforcement brigade of the Municipal Health Supervision Office, believes that setting up acupuncture and weight loss in a beauty salon is not allowed by law. Whether it is weight loss or other effects, acupuncture is definitely a medical practice. Acupuncture for weight loss uses filiform needles, which must be inserted into the skin when applying. Captain Chen said that according to the law, this kind of invasive behavior that causes trauma to the human body is a medical behavior. Therefore, as long as it is a medical behavior, the performer and the place must have corresponding qualifications. In other words, the person who injects the acupuncture must be a practicing physician holding both the "Physician Qualification Certificate" and the "Physician Practice Certificate", and the location of the acupuncture must be in a medical institution; if the diagnosis and treatment is outside the hospital, it must go through the health administration department Approval and filing. At the same time, he also emphasized that medical equipment that invades the human body must be sterilized under high pressure. In some beauty salons, burning only boiling water or alcohol lamps may not achieve strict disinfection results and may spread blood diseases. ◆Acupuncture weight loss should be combined with diet and exercise. The World Health Organization proposes that simple weight loss is not the best way, including acupuncture weight loss. Therefore, weight loss can be achieved with auxiliary therapies such as diet, exercise, and sleep. Moreover, sleeping well can also help you lose weight. Regarding acupuncture weight loss, if you don’t pay attention to your diet, you will definitely regain it. Dr. Han said that because people who lose weight often prefer to eat more sweets and greasy foods, if they are not properly controlled, there will definitely be a rebound phenomenon. Therefore, a "three-in-one" weight loss package of diet, exercise, and sleep is the most scientific and healthy. In addition, acupuncture weight loss must be combined with adjustments in daily life. Because obesity is mostly caused by unreasonable living habits. For example: not interested in exercising, lethargy, eating too much, etc. Therefore, doctors list "relevant regulations" on diet and exercise for consumers who come for acupuncture to lose weight. This regulation is not to ask consumers to eat less blindly, but to pay attention to protein intake and eat less sugar, fried foods, etc. You can also take auxiliary measures such as continuously and slowly reducing food, or not eating on a certain day, such as: insisting on not eating every Saturday, only drinking water and eating only vegetables, etc. ●Related links◆There are contraindications for acupuncture for weight loss. The following three types of patients and some special conditions are not suitable for acupuncture for weight loss: 1. Patients with heart disease; 2. Patients with stage II and stage III hypertension; 3. Diabetic patients; 4. , fasting, fatigue, severe sweating, heavy sweating after exercise, etc., you cannot receive acupuncture for weight loss immediately, and you should postpone it or change the time. ●News replay Although there has not yet been a vicious incident involving acupuncture for weight loss in Shenzhen, similar "beauty tragedies" are common across the country. 1. According to reports, a 28-year-old young female boss in Taizhou had hundreds of needles inserted into her body when she was undergoing acupuncture to lose weight in a beauty salon. Then she restricted her diet and did not even drink water. Her mouth was so dry that it turned white and she was still standing. Died from heart and kidney failure. After losing 15 kilograms in less than a month, he suddenly died under the weight loss needle. 2. A Mrs. Shock death occurred and life was lost.