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LOSE YOUR WEIGHT Acupuncture –as a traditional Chinese medicine, employs needles placed in different part of the body through certain points and to stimulate them to get the desired effect. Today’s medicine using a combination of Acupuncture in their course of treatment plan. Now there is a research released about the acupuncture aid in weight loss. It seems to the best news of all, as you all know that exercising and dieting is not an easy task to reduce body weight. However, this method only uses set of needles in certain acupuncture points. Overall effect is unbelievable. The trial says the stimulation of ear with these acupuncture method will help in the weight loss. They uses five ear acupuncture sites named as Shen- men, stomach, spleen, hunger, endocrine. The five needles were placed in these five points, secured them with surgical tapes, and left it for one week. Later on the following week same procedure repeated in the other ear, likewise it is repeated for a period of 8 weeks. Another set of people had only one needle in the ear instead of the fiveneedle system, once again repeated like 5 needle system for 8 weeks. Third set of people who were the control group.