Herbs for weight loss

With the improvement of our living standards, many of us have continuously raised our requirements for our own image, and more and more friends need weight loss methods. However, we all know that weight loss with Western medicine has certain side effects, so some friends think of using traditional Chinese medicine for weight loss. What important herbs have weight loss effects? Let's take a look at the specific ones that meet our requirements below.

Traditional Chinese medicine for weight loss does not have the rapid effect of Western medicine or surgical weight loss. Traditional Chinese medicine is more about regulating the balance of the body, clearing the intestines and stomach, and achieving weight loss in this way. Such weight loss has a lower possibility of rebound, so it is very popular among friends now.

Hawthorn, also known as 'Shanlihong' or 'Yanzhi Guo', has high nutritional and medicinal value. In addition to fresh eating, hawthorn can be made into hawthorn slices, fruit leather, hawthorn cake, red fruit jam, dried fruit, and hawthorn wine. Hawthorn slices and hawthorn fruit leather are the most common and popular varieties. Cassia seed, also known as Herba Cassiae, is the mature seed of the leguminous plant Cassia obtusifolia. It is also called Herba Cassiae. According to the 'Shennong's Materia Medica', Cassia seed is sweet, bitter, slightly cold, and belongs to the liver, gallbladder, and kidney meridians. It has the functions of clearing the liver, improving eyesight, moistening the intestines, and facilitating defecation, reducing fat, and slimming. It can be used for headache, dizziness, red eyes, blurred vision, constipation, and is also used in the clinical treatment of hypertension in recent years. Poria is a kind of parasitic fungus plant on the roots of pine trees, resembling sweet potatoes in shape, with black-brown outer skin and white or pink inside. Used in traditional Chinese medicine, it has diuretic and sedative effects. The drug is the dried fruiting body of Poria, a fungus in the Polyporaceae family, which is mostly parasitic on the roots of Masson pine or Pinus densata. Gynostemma pentaphyllum is a plant with both medicinal and edible properties, which can regulate human lipid metabolism and has a good effect on weight loss. It is the preferred ingredient in many weight loss products. Gynostemma pentaphyllum not only helps with weight loss but also anti-aging, lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglycerides, making it the first choice for healthy weight loss. Tangerine peel is the dried mature pericarp of the citrus plant and its cultivated varieties in the Rutaceae family. The medicine is divided into 'Tangerine peel' and 'Guang Tangerine peel'. The mature fruits are picked, the pericarp is peeled off, and it is dried in the sun or dried at low temperature. It tastes bitter and acrid, and is warm. It belongs to the lung and spleen meridians. It has the functions of regulating Qi, strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm. It is used for chest and epigastric fullness, decreased appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, cough with profuse sputum.

After reading some introductions of traditional Chinese medicine above, I believe everyone should have a certain understanding of which traditional Chinese medicines have weight loss effects. Compared with Western medicine or external surgery, traditional Chinese medicine for weight loss is safer, with fewer side effects, and has a lower rebound rate. Friends who want to lose weight can give it a try.