Shiraishi Takemasa, Onoe Mariko, Kojima Taka-Aki, Kageyama Teruo, Sawatsugawa Shoichi, Sakurai Kohji, Yoshimatsu Hironobu, Sakata Toshiie
Department of Neurophysiology, Division of Human Structure and Function, The Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara 259-1193, Japan.
Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2003 Nov;228(10):1201-7. doi: 10.1177/153537020322801016.
We investigated the effects of auricular acupuncture stimulation on non-obese healthy volunteers and mildly obese patients. Subjects (n = 55 and 5, respectively) averaged 34.5 years old, and BMI was 24.3 and less than 27.5 kg/m2, respectively. We also studied the effects of single-blind sham treatment in approximately 500 age-, sex-, and BMI-matched subjects. Small (0.15 x 2.0 mm) auricular needles were placed intracutaneously into the bilateral cavum conchae identified by having a resistance of less than 100 kOmega/cm2. In the 2-week pretreatment the period, in which body weight was measured without auricular acupuncture stimulation, 57.1% of the subjects showed a reduction in body weight. This indicates that charting one's own body weight might itself be a useful method of weight control. In the auricular acupuncture treatment period, 35 healthy subjects of 55 (63.6%) showed a decreased body weight, 11 (20%) showed an increased body weight, and 9 (16.4%) showed no change in body weight. The obese patients showed individual variation, but all achieved weight reduction, with a highly significant correlation between body weight and fat volume. The CT/MRI cross-sectional pictures supported these findings. Sham treatment had no statistically significant effect on body weight. These results suggest that success in achieving weight reduction can be partly attributed to the act of charting of one's own weight pattern. Bilateral auricular acupuncture stimulation can help reduce body weight both in mildly obese patients and in healthy non-obese subjects. In conclusion, this is in accord with the bilateral auricular acupuncture stimulation that it may be useful in the treatment of the obesity. We propose a possible mechanism for the weight-reducing effects of bilateral auricular acupuncture stimulation.
我们研究了耳针刺激对非肥胖健康志愿者和轻度肥胖患者的影响。受试者（分别为55名和5名）平均年龄34.5岁，体重指数分别为24.3和小于27.5kg/m²。我们还在约500名年龄、性别和体重指数匹配的受试者中研究了单盲假治疗的效果。将细小（0.15×2.0mm）的耳针经皮刺入双侧耳甲腔，其电阻小于100kΩ/cm²。在为期2周的预处理期间，即在未进行耳针刺激的情况下测量体重，57.1%的受试者体重减轻。这表明记录自己的体重本身可能是一种有用的体重控制方法。在耳针治疗期间，55名健康受试者中有35名（63.6%）体重下降，11名（20%）体重增加，9名（16.4%）体重无变化。肥胖患者表现出个体差异，但均实现了体重减轻，体重与脂肪量之间存在高度显著的相关性。CT/MRI横断面图像支持了这些发现。假治疗对体重没有统计学上的显著影响。这些结果表明，成功减重部分可归因于记录自己体重模式的行为。双侧耳针刺激有助于轻度肥胖患者和健康非肥胖受试者减轻体重。总之，这与双侧耳针刺激在肥胖治疗中可能有用的观点一致。我们提出了双侧耳针刺激减重效果的一种可能机制。
