Effects of acupoint catgut-embedding therapy combined with infrared sauna room in patients with simple obesity

Objective To observe the efficacy of acupoint catgut-embedding therapy combined with infrared sauna room on simple obesity. Methods 130 patients with simple obesity were randomly divided into 3 groups. Sixty patients with simple obesity in group A received the treatment of acupoint catgut-embedding per 2 weeks and infrared sauna room per week for 12 weeks. Forty patients in group B were treated with acupoint catgut-embedding per 2 weeks. Thirty patients in group C were treated with infrared sauna room per week.Body weight(BW),waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC) and body mass index (BMI), the level of percentage of body fat(PBF) and lipid were assessed before and after the whole treatment. Results The levels of WC,HC,BMI and PBF were decreased significantly after treatment in all three groups(P0.05).The total effective rate of group A was 85%,compared with 72.5% and 66.7% in group B and group C,respectively, and there were significant differences between the three groups(P0.05). Conclusions Acupoint catgut-embedding therapy combined with infrared sauna room treatment could be helpful to improve the obese physical condition.