Psychosomatic medicine research of obesity and TCM countermeasures

Abstract

As an epidemic disease, obesity is on the rise globally, seriously jeopardizing human health. China now has the largest overweight or obese population in the world. In addition to causing the typical physical symptoms of obesity, obesity is often accompanied by a variety of psychosomatic diseases, which are not only closely related to health behaviors, but also psychosocial plays an important role in them. Although there are differences in the symptoms exhibited by the major systems, most of the modern research has been interpreted from the inflammatory and immune responses, which provides a direction to find the mechanism of obesity physical and mental diseases. After researching and explaining the mechanism, we give the countermeasures of Chinese medicine in treating obesity from both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments and explore the mechanism, hoping to build a bridge between Chinese medicine treatment and the mechanism of the above mentioned physical and mental diseases, and to provide scientific evidence for the efficacy of Chinese medicine.