Chinese medicine is usually used for weight loss to clear heat and fire; the formula for weight loss is a warming herbal medicine for Yang. After taking such medicine the person with excessive appetite turns to have normal appetite and weight loss to reach weight loss effect. Those with low appetite turn to have normal appetite and gain weight to achieve the purpose of weight gain.
Dr. Zhao Zhifu, chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Psychosomatic Medicine, Guang’anmen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The appetite center of a person is in the brain, and its function should be neither too strong nor too weak, but in a balanced state. Chinese medicine believes that people should have a balance of yin and yang, people who eat too much is too much stomach yang, people who eat too little is too little spleen yang. That’s why Chinese medicine says, “The real is Yang Ming, the deficient is Tai Yin”, Yang Ming refers to the stomach and Tai Yin refers to the spleen. Stomach Yang is too strong, then the appetite is strong, eating too much, absorbing too much nutrition, resulting in obesity. Spleen Yang deficiency is too little appetite, too little absorption, malnutrition, resulting in a lean body. The treatment of obesity and wasting in Chinese medicine is to “harmonize yin and yang”. The obese person should be diarrhea its yang to supplement its yin, the wasted person should supplement its yang, diarrhea its yin. So that the balance of yin and yang, so that the body is neither fat nor thin.
