The Mechanism of Weight Loosing by Acupuncture

The term of weight loss is to loose excessive fat accumulated in the body.
To get rid of excessive fat is different from desiring to be at certain weight. The weight loss trials started by esthetical varies may not be healthy every time. The most important problem of the present day is to have excessive weight. It is more definite solution to loose weight instead of fighting with the disease brought about by excessive weight.

Heart and vein disease which causes the largest proportion of death, gynecological disorders, and the majority of skeleton problems are caused bye excessive fat carried by the body. The total length of the veins in a man is 380.000 km. This is equal to the distance between earth and the moon. Since certain amount of fat sort or accumulated in the body is stuck into internal faces of vain. It is obvious that this would cause problems in the circulation of the blood in the vein. The causes and the results of the same psychological problems are excessive weight.
I don't want to give any scale or major to define the excessive weight.
Everybody has a certain weight according to his height, age, race, and sex.
This weight is known by everybody.
Our object is not to loss weight.
Our object is to make people get rid of their excessive weight by means of a health method.
Everybody knows how much excessive weight he or she has.
Our method is to loose weight by acupuncture. This method is becoming popular among the others already tried hundreds of methods. Based on publications and the 20 years of studies carried at different centers we can say the followings:
The acupuncture is not a solution by itself alone.
There is a need for a support suitable for the nature of the acupuncture. The acupuncture is the best treatment suitable for the human body. In order to apply this method successfully the nature of the body has to be known.
Its results may be unsuccessful if one does acupuncture on the other hand, however but diet and eating system given to support it are not suitable to the nature of the body.
This subject is going to be described in a simple language as much as possible.
The reason for this one looks at from a patient point of view they have a right to know what is happening to them.
When it is looked at practioners are not able to relate the traditional Chinese medicine to modern medicine.
As a number of practioners do not have any specialties the do not know the mechanism of what they do and they think they do it in the right way.
The complex working mechanism of the body is in fact work with simple principals. To explain this subject more thoroughly an analytical explanation will be made using simple mechanism and methods.
The gathering of a number of stimulation and knowledge is made in the center called Thalamus found in brain. Thalamus is made up of varies masses (gray one) of nucleus have varies links.
This center receives all information farmed in a body directly or indirectly. While it uses certain amount of this information itself it sends the remaining information to the other important centers sometimes as it is or by changing.
Thalamus sends some of the raw and processed data which reaches itself, to the cortex (special and general impulses).There are equal numbers of fibers going from cortex between the cortex and a centre in the brain.
Thalamus has the widest feature of such structure.
The whole fiber system between the cortex and the Thalamus is called "radiatio thalamocorticalis". This system use s reflection mechanism called feedback and reciprocal circuits. There are Thalamocortical fibers as many as Corticothalamic fibers.
We understand that all senses except smell sense reaches to the cortex after processed by Thalamus. There are number of internal links between Thalamus and its centers. These links forms an interpration between the sense information before cortex. There are a number of links between Thalamus and Frontal cortex, Hypothalamus.
This shows that Thalamus has an interpration between Thalamus visseral and somatic functions.
Thus Thalamus works as a data bank.

In the working of Thalamus as a data bank there is influence of (traces) human beings evolution over million years and the present day education level psychological structure and the living style have major role. The influence of Thalamus is undiscussable in appearance of a number of human behaviors. In assessment of a stimulus or any information is made by collaboration of Thalamus with is automatic mechanism and with the other centers. Information of automatic mechanism, the psychological data plays an effective role as well as material data.
All these roles are formed in the light of information coming from genetic heritage as well as chromosomes. All these life traces of a child in mathers womb is recorded in Thalamus.

Thus everybody has is own Thalamus.
In other word everybody is like his Thalamus.
The centre of acupuncture is Thalamus.
"In 'Body time' -Gaer Gay Luce write as follows:
"Dr. Richter reports that when the Thalamus was partly destroyed blinded rats began to eat every 40 to 60 minutes and drink every few minutes. They no longer slept as before in an interval of 12 hours but wandered around in a continuous stupor. After making lesion in the brains of 200 animals Dr. Richter surmised that the Hypothalamus or related regions were important in regulating the activity rhythm.
Hunger centers marked "A2" on the sketch of the Thalamus, when probed creates extreme hunger while probing of the points marked "b" destroys appetite" (*).
Hypothalamus is located in the ventral part of Diencephalon.
The cores of Hypothalamus have high centers related to autonomic nervous system. Thalamus and Hypothalamus are related externally and internally to each other.
"The Thalamus plays a very important part in controlling the body's fluid balance. While water is itself the great stabilizer of bodily processes its own balance must be regulated, not only in quantity but also in concentration of dissolved materials. The balance of water within the body needs to be very precise-a variation of no more than% ı or %2 from normal immediately makes itself felt as thirst or pain.

The master control centre is the Hypothalamus. The Hypothalamus govern processes that must be responded to automatically without any delay of waiting for conscious decision such as hearth actions, sleeping and waking, appetite, sex, digestion and thirst. It maintains water balance by creating a hormone which regulates the kidneys and also affects the nerves at the back of the throat causing thirst".

As it is known the acupuncture treatment is applied to special points known as acupuncture points. As each point has its own special effects when the points are coupled with one another they have other common effects.
In selection of these points and preparation of prescriptions the most important key is the "Traditional Chinese Medical Theory".
By joining points with one another a number of closed circuits within the body are either included into the general working mechanism or they are pushed out of the system.

For example: Yanglingquan (GB.34) is an effective point for the gall bladder channel. If Janjiao channel is used together with Zhigou (8J.6) points, it treats constipation.
If the same Yanglingquan is used with Quchi which is the eleventh point of Large intestinal channel is used for the treatment of allergia and urticaria and it is effective.
This stimulation given to these circuits make either compress or loosening at the points of applications.
For example: By treating the same point constipation as well as diarrhea may be treated. Thalamus is at the centre of this process.
Thalamus directs these systems with its ability and its structure.
it transmits information as well as directing and recording into the brain.
If there is to be a defect within the normal body system the organism repairs it automatically. If the repair is not done in a short while that system is taken out of service in order not to give any confusion in the continuous breakdown signal in the main table.
Thus cortex as well as Thalamus and lower cores are saved from disturbance caused by continuous breakdown signal.
If acupuncture is applied to the body for different aims the Thalamus starts repairing the previous broken system after receiving the stimulation. In most cases it is successful.
The expert knows that.
When a patient having pain in the back is treated menstrual cyclus disorder or ear pain are treated by itself.
Whereas special points or circuits are not used in treatment of their systems.
As it seen Thalamus is aware of everything and there is nothing can take place without its knowledge.
The information coming from all parts of the body definitely passes through the Thalamus station. Thalamus is in very close cooperation with the beast1y instinct.
Because Hypothalamus and Thalamus are located at the centre of limbic system.
Gyrus subcallosum, gyrus cinguli, gyrus parahyppocampalis, gyrus dentatus and hyppocampus which forms cortex and encircles corpus callosum are called Limbic lob.
The extensive nerves mechanism which includes certain parts of hypothalamus, epithalamus; thalamus anterior nucleus, septal nucleus, basal ganglions and limbic lob are called limbic system.
Limbic system forms the oldest part of brain.

The brain which is newer than the limbic system is located in the deeper parts due to excessive development of the cortex. Limbic system directs our instincts and emotional behaviors. Because of that it affects the endocrine system and autonomic nervous system via hypothalamus.
Everybody has aggression instinct, sexual instinct, and nutrition instinct. These are found balanced in the people having normal healthy, psychological structure and regular social life. Increasing social stress unbalances these instincts.
These instincts are directed by the centers located at the limbic system. The electro-chemical contact among these centers are disturbed (broken down) when one of these instincts are under pressure. Since the aggressive and sexual instincts are not satisfied every time the satisfaction of feeding (nutrition) instinct which has less damage to the environment is fulfilled easily.
This is the reason for excessive fatness.
When a person does not satisfy the aggressiveness instinct caused a by the social stresses and the sexual instinct which come after it the strongly ties to satisfy his feeding (nutrition) instinct.
The satisfaction of the feeding instinct occurs by having frequent and huge amount of meals. At such times there is no need for good qualified food every time.
A person eats excessively in order to compress his aggressiveness but becomes relented after eating.
The relentness makes him angry and this makes him reel guilty.
Punishment behavior can be in the form of terror with hatred, pain, anxiety, irritation, defense, attack and run away.
These centers are sunstantia grisea periaquaductalis, medial part of hypothalamus, medialline nucleuses in thalamus, amygdaloids and hippocampus.
The punishment must hurt!
In this cage a person will be hurt by putting on a few more kilos of weight.
In order to put on few more kilos of weight one needs to get hungrier.
Thus a person gets angry he eats more and as he eats he gets angry.
Thus a person falls into circulus vitiosus.
Whole these events pass through of the center which also includes thalamus and all these things happen within the knowledge of it.
The meals eaten unconsciously at nights by getting up from the bed it's due to dissatisfactional sexual instinct.
And the sexuality does not satisfy him.
At this time this eating habit starts not from the aggressiveness instinct but this dissatisfaction of the sexual instinct.
Human tongue is the most developed part of the body due to its muscle structure and activities. The taste corpuscles found on the tongue extends its sensitiveness. The tongue has large part in the cortex. The reason why the tongue accomplishes a number of things is due to with the area occupied in the cortex and its direct and indirect connections with a number of centers.

it compares the newly tasted food information with the old information and it defines the food. This is made by staring and classifying the information about the food touch the tasting organoids after the birth. Even when the knowledge about the food which touches the tongue it is remembered how this knowledge when and under what sort of psychological situation (happy or unhappy) is recorded.
The idea of the emotional and instinctive mechanism may be related to limbic system as it was first suggested by Papez was proved by Klüver-Bucy in 1939.
The matter which touches the tongue also activates the digesting mechanism in the body. Such as if the food contained eggs stims the gall bladder and sweet things stimulate the pancreas. Such classification and analysis is made by the thalamus but not by the tongue. The role of tongue here is to read barkaot reader.

. Body deforms.
. Body depressed.
. When a rice grain touches the tongue, it analyses it and recognizes it as rice. What sort of meals contains rice? It searches memory and finds the previously eaten meal contained rice. pilaf, puddings etc.
. If chick-pea grain touches the tongue it recognizes it straight away and it gives sings that floury food when a piece of bread is put on a tongue ,the tongue recognizes it straight away and the brain analyzes it an ask what flour + bran +salt +butter are.
. The brain answers this might be a piece of pizza or bread.
. An impulse within the limbic system moves *reciprocal cortex and hypothalamus. Every new impulse stimulates cerebral cortex. However as these impulses repeated without any punishment or present cortical responses die down.
. The animal gets used to this stimulation and does not response to it. If there is present or punishment effect in the stimulation the cortical responses get stronger instead of dying down.
. The animal keeps strong memory records for such stimulation.
. In this cage the present and punishment centers enable us to select the necessary information. What does brain to when the food contains fat or the matter changeable to fat touches the tongue.
. The organism opens a memory file about that matter by moral and psychological values. In the light of this information in the memory the normal physiology works. The organism act according to the content of the matter coming to it the organism tries to keep the absorbed sufficient amount or to keep the level of the absorbed materials at certain level in the blood.

When this procedure starts a number of digestion system starts working one after other in a automatic fashion.
The necessary preparations are made to keep the sugar content in blood under hundred and twenty mg and total lipid in between one thousand and twelve hundred.
The preparation is connected with the observation mechanism.
The carbonhydrate sucked from intestines is partly converted to fat and the others converted to glucogen and stored.
It is registered in the main memory that based on the feeding habit how many times a day and how much is eaten. The biological watch is adjusted as such that the person how many times a day a person eat between the meals and what he eats are all recorded in the memory. Even if a person doesn't eat anything at normal eating the time, the biological watch starts and it drops the sugar content in the blood and enforces the person to eat.
If a person starts a diet with normal daily calorie: He starts taking certain amount of calories from different categories of food.
Such as fifteen hundred or two thousand calorie per a day.
When the person gets hungry however he tries to eat low calorie containing food he continuously feels hungry.
The biological watch stars at the certain times based on his habits he starts feeling hungry. At that time if he puts a piece of food containing fat or carbon hydrates to his mouth his hunger becomes less or passes away temporarily.
But if the person eats less than the normal portion for example, if he eats one fourth portion of fried potatoes instead of full portion since the organism knows how much the amount he is used to eat, it secrets the insulin as for the fulls.
This time glucose contends in the blood falls.
Thus the people who are on the diet feel hungrier as they eat in between meals.
Since the insulin increases the amount stored in the body the fat points and fat stores are never lost.
When a person is on diet if he eats fat or any material which can be converted to fat by metabolism. When these materials touch the tongue the brain is informed and shut down the fat stores.
If a person who is on diet insists an eating less the necessary amount of calorie has to be spent by the body. Where does it come from since the fat stores are shut down the calories are not supplied from different sources.
This source is muscles!
The glucogene stored in the muscles starts to dissolve.
The people trying to diet with fat and carbon hydrate do not loose fat but their muscles dissolve.
The thick fat layer on the skeleton does not dissolve but the muscles dissolve.

The body is deformed after such diets.
Wrinkles and yielding are developed in the appearance!
Since the muscles are weakened tiredness and weakness occur. The heart is an engine made from muscle and the kidneys are filters made from muscles. People who are on calorie diet for a long time may have heart, kidney and other internal diseases.
Certainly!
Weigh loosing programs with acupuncture have a strong dynamic.
The acupuncture points are in touch with all organs by thalamus.
The ear is connected to cortex and thalamus, cortex and other cores by nerves.
The effect of acupuncture:

Thalamus: Its tries to balance the animal senses of that person (aggressiveness, sex and feeding). This is made just like the principles of liquids in connected cups.
The information of healthiness and disorderness coming from all the organs are putting in order in the thalamus.
The timing quality and quantity for secretion produced by the internal secretional gland are regulated by the coordination of thalamus with the lower brain centers.
People who have started diet by acupuncture are not given sugar, fat and yogurt is enough for a person during the diet.
The salt is not certainly forbidden (except for people having blood pressure problems).
In the routine weight loosing by diet When the fat is lost below the skin (this may change according to the person) there is relaxation occur in the skin when about 4-5 kilos are lost.
It takes about three weeks when the skin to rejuvanete. Within these three weeks the skin has to be stretched so that there is no wrinkle, no shrivel occur. For this we cannot send air underneath the skin in order to keep it stretched.
it is more practical to fill the underneath the skin by water. The most practical way is not to restrict the salt usage. Salt keeps the water then the water keeps the skin stretched. When it is 4-5 kilos lost underneath the skin, the salt takes by the body keeps the water. For this reason the ski n does not become shriveled and the blood pressure does not drop (decrease).
As the water ratio increases in the body the brain recognizes it and the kidney tubes push the salt in the process of diuresis (saluresis). On average 10 kilos is lost over 30 -40 days and there is no aesthetical deformation occurs over the period.
The weight loosing by acupuncture program is made by changing the needle attached to the ears one e a week.
Fat, starch and carbon hydrates are not given.
The points are to be selected on the ears are known by the acupuncture experts.
The necessary arrangements are made at these points according to the person's needs.
Salt and mineral water are not excluded from the diet (The necessary arrangements are made for the people having high blood pressure).
It is advised to walk one hour per a day an average.
For people having extreme kilos are not given permission to do exercise.
Because one kilo of excess will have 16.5 kilos on one cm square of vertebra.
The person is allowed to make exercises after loosing 8 kilos.
Thus 16.5 X 8 =132 kilo s is reduced from one cm square of the joint.
Since the knee joint is about 10' cm square in area 1320 kilo s less weight affect the knees. It is not healthy to do the exercise with additional1320 kilo s on the body. Therefore only walking is recommended instead of exercise at the beginning of the diet.
The weight loosing method by acupuncture is a teaching quality teaches the person not to become refat.
The person should eat the daily fruit need in the morning.
The person should eat three times a day without eating any portion at intervals.
nothing should be eaten anything after evening meal.
It should be known that if one eat less he will loose less as much as what he eats.
It should be known that if one puts on weight again it will be difficult to get rid of it than the previous one.
A person should know that when his diet finished, the normal feeding diet which he expects to start after the diet is a fattening diet in reality.
When this diet is applied with the acupuncture:
*People having excessive weights loose can 10- 13 kg in a month and people having % 20 excess weight loose 8-9 kg in a month.
*They don't feel very hungry during the program.

*They don't have dizziness.
*They don't have blood pressure drop or increase.
*They nervous system is not disturbed. They are more calm and tolerant (considerate). *If they have any problem in their menstrual system, this becomes regular.
*The person who doesn't have baby because of excessive weights or metabolism problems or unknown reasons may become pregnant.
*People having headache because of hunger do not have such problem during the diet.
*Tension headache becomes less.
* Skin shrivels and wrinkles do not occur in the body after the diet even if they loose 13 kg in a month, 20 kg in two months whatever age they are.
*There is no other technique comparable with the acupuncture in loosing the excessive fat. All these are done by the effect of acupuncture on brain and thalamus.
"Weight loss activity by acupuncture is the mechanism which the body tries to balance its internal dynamics"

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