Losing weight is an eternal topic for many women, and using traditional Chinese medicine to lose weight is the most important part. Let's follow the editor to learn about common Chinese herbal weight loss remedies and the suitable population.
Causes of Obesity
1. Genetics: If both parents are overweight, there is a 70% chance that their children will be obese. If one parent is overweight, there is a 50% chance that their children will be obese. Of course, family eating habits also have a significant impact.
2. Overeating: Consumption of sweets, beverages, high-calorie foods, high-fat, high-sugar, high-protein, low-fiber foods is the main cause of weight gain.
3. Lack of exercise: If the diet remains unchanged or the calorie intake is excessive, and there is insufficient exercise, the excess calories will be converted into fat storage, leading to weight gain over time.
4. Midnight snacks: People who eat late at night or eat before bed are more prone to weight gain. Because metabolism and absorption are poor at night, weight gain is more likely to occur.
5. Emotional eating: Eating or binge eating due to high emotions or sadness leads to excessive calorie intake, which turns into fat and gradually leads to obesity.
Several Common Traditional Chinese Medicine Weight Loss Remedies
Honeysuckle:
Weight loss principle: Honeysuckle is sweet and cold in nature, good at clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing fire, and dispelling dampness. It is especially suitable for consumption in summer, but not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach.
Suitable population: Generally speaking, honeysuckle has a wide range of applications, but there is only one type of person who is not suitable. They don't eat much, but have a lot of fat. This is obesity caused by endocrine disorders. If you are in this situation, honeysuckle is not suitable. Generally, this type of obesity is caused by a weak and uncoordinated spleen and stomach, so honeysuckle is likely to exacerbate this imbalance and aggravate obesity, leading you in the opposite direction of weight loss.
Bupleurum:
Weight loss principle: Bupleurum is bitter in taste and slightly cold in nature, entering the liver and kidney meridians, and has the effects of regulating liver and gallbladder, relieving qi stagnation, and dispersing fire. The unique saponin component in bupleurum has a lipid-lowering effect.
Suitable population: How is your temper? If you are an irritable overweight woman, then brew some bupleurum tea. Since the liver is an important organ for regulating fat metabolism, emotional instability can affect the liver's operation, leading to obesity. Nowadays, women are under a lot of stress, have unstable emotions, eat excessively, and often binge eat. Weight becomes the easiest sacrifice. Drinking bupleurum tea can also solve obesity-related complications such as chest tightness, bloating, mood swings, breast tenderness during menstruation, and irritability.
Alisma:
Weight loss principle: Alisma is sweet and cold in taste, and has the effects of diuresis and clearing damp-heat. Its weight loss effect lies in its ability to eliminate body edema and accelerate metabolism.
Suitable population: Many obese people have this feeling: just looking at the upper body, they don't seem to be overweight, but as soon as they lower their heads, they immediately see frustrating elephant legs and chubby feet. For this lower body obesity, alisma is the best weight loss companion. However, it should be noted that when brewing alisma tea, the amount should not be too much, otherwise the cold nature of alisma may be too much for your intestines and stomach to handle.
