ZHAO Tong, SUN Yanrong, WANG Jitao, et al. Nursing Experience of Treating a Patient with Abdominal Obesity by Umbilical Moxibustion Therapy[DB/OL].Clinical archives of integrative medicine, 2025.
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ZHAO Tong, SUN Yanrong, WANG Jitao, et al. Nursing Experience of Treating a Patient with Abdominal Obesity by Umbilical Moxibustion Therapy[DB/OL].Clinical archives of integrative medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.12209/CAIM202505030002.
Nursing Experience of Treating a Patient with Abdominal Obesity by Umbilical Moxibustion Therapy
This report summarizes the nursing experience of treating a patient with abdominal obesity using umbilical moxibustion therapy. Guided by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndrome differentiation and holistic nursing, interventions included umbilical moxibustion, dietary adjustments, exercise guidance, and emotional regulation. Post-treatment, the patient exhibited reduced waist circumference, body weight, and fasting blood glucose levels, along with alleviated fatigue symptoms. Umbilical moxibustion, by warming meridians, regulating spleen-stomach function, and resolving dampness-turbidity, combined with dietary, exercise, and psychological care, demonstrated positive effects on metabolic regulation in abdominal obesity with diabetes (Xiaoke disease) under the TCM pattern of "spleen deficiency with dampness excess."
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