Clinical observation on electro-acupuncture combined with ear-acupuncture in treating patients with obesity of stomach-intestine excessive heat type complicated with hyperlipidemia

Objective: To observe the clinical ei cacy of electro-acupuncture combined with ear-acupuncture in treating patients with obesity of stomach-intestine excessive heat type complicated with hyperlipidemia. Methods: One hundred and thirty cases of patients with simple obesity of stomach-intestine excessive heat type complicated with hyperlipidemia were randomly divided into control and treatment groups with 65 cases in each group. According to the basic principle of treatment based on syndrome differentiation, patients in control group were treated with acupuncture and electro-acupuncture, and patients in treatment group were treated with ear-acupuncture based on the treatment of acupuncture and electro-acupuncture for 3 months. Symptoms, physical signs, obesity indexes, changes of lipid contents and the curative effect of patients in the two groups were observed before and after treatment. Results: After treatment, the weight, obesity degree, BMI, body fat percentage of patients in two groups were decreased significantly(P0.01), the correlative indexes of lipid contents of patients in two groups as TC, TG and LDL-C were decreased significantly(P0.01), and the level of HDL-C was increased significantly(P0.01). The difference in blood lipid indicators between the two groups was significant after treatment(P0.05). Conclusion: The therapy of electroacupuncture combined with ear-acupuncture and pure electro-acupuncture therapy had good antiobesity effect and adjustment effect on abnormal lipid metabolism on patients with simple obesity of stomach-intestine excessive heat type complicated with hyperlipidemia, and the curative effect of therapy of electro-acupuncture combined with ear-acupuncture on antiobesity and improving lipid metabolism was superior to that of pure electro-acupuncture therapy.