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TCM weight loss Hong Kong
Let Your Body Find Its Own Weight
acupuncture, cupping, ear seeds and macrobiotic diet, held as one weight management programme in Central, Hong Kong.
Why weight gain will not shift, in Chinese medicine terms
A Chinese medicine practitioner does not begin with what you eat. She begins with whether your body can still transform it.
In Chinese medicine the spleen governs transformation. When it is depleted, what is left untransformed settles as dampness: heaviness, fog after lunch, a middle that will not settle. Add years of stress and metabolism slows. This is why two people eat the same and hold body fat differently, and why a weight loss plan built only on restriction fails.
What Traditional Chinese medicine weight loss actually is
Chinese medicine weight loss is not a faster diet. It restores digestion, sleep and the stress response until your weight settles on its own.
Acupuncture strengthens digestion and calms the nervous system. Cupping moves the stagnation dampness leaves behind. Ear seeds carry appetite regulation between visits. Macrobiotic diet rebuilds how you cook, so your digestive health holds the change.
In a Hong Kong Baptist University trial, seventy two overweight participants who had regular acupuncture over eight weeks lost meaningfully more weight than the control group. Acupuncture alone gives a modest result. Acupuncture with a real change in how you eat is what makes it hold.
Who this Chinese medicine weight programme is for
This is for you if the scale crept upward through perimenopause. If you are bloated most evenings. If stress has been your baseline so long your body stores it. If you have lost weight quickly before and watched every kilo return.
It is not for you if your weight loss goals are a number by a date. We will say so kindly, and early.
What happens in an acupuncture session
You begin with a constitutional assessment: pulse, tongue, and questions about digestion, sleep, cycle, energy and stress, because in Chinese medicine these are one conversation about your health.
Fine needles then go to points supporting digestion and metabolism. Cupping follows where useful. You rest twenty minutes. Ear seeds stay on three to five days.
Treatment plans differ by constitution. Bloating usually eases before the scale moves.
Your Journey
The weight management programme
Both months run four acupuncture, four cupping and four ear seed services with a registered Chinese medicine practitioner, alongside macrobiotic diet with Srdjan Dobic.
First Month
HKD 8,820
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture × 4
Cupping × 4
Ear Seed × 4
Acupuncture × 4
Cupping × 4
Ear Seed × 4
Macrobiotic Diet
1-hour face-to-face session × 1
30-minute online follow-ups × 3
1-hour face-to-face session × 1
30-minute online follow-ups × 3
Every Month After
HKD 7,200
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture × 4
Cupping × 4
Ear Seed × 4
Acupuncture × 4
Cupping × 4
Ear Seed × 4
Macrobiotic Diet
30-minute online consultation × 4
30-minute online consultation × 4
Most bodies need three months. We will be honest about what your health needs.
Where herbal medicine fits in your health plan
This programme does not include herbal medicine. Some constitutions respond, some do not, so we do not bundle it in. If your assessment suggests herbal medicine would help, our TCM doctors prescribes it separately.
YOUR Questions
Questions people ask about TCM weight loss
Macrobiotic eating builds meals around whole grains, seasonal vegetables, beans and sea vegetables, cooked simply and eaten warm. It is not vegan and it is not a calorie diet. It works by balance: adjusting the warming and cooling quality of what you eat to your constitution and to the season, which is why it sits so naturally beside Chinese medicine. Nothing is banned outright. Srdjan Dobic starts with what you already cook and shifts it, meal by meal, until your digestion does the work rather than your willpower.
Modestly alone, well in combination. Its value is regulating appetite, digestion, sleep and the stress that governs metabolic health.
There is no single best, because Chinese medicine treats patterns. Dampness, spleen deficiency and stress driven weight gain each need different work.
There is not one. Anyone promising speed is selling something. Chinese medicine offers weight that stays lost.
No. Ozempic acts on appetite hormones. Chinese medicine restores the systems regulating appetite and stress, so it does not stop when you stop.
Tell us at consultation. Our practitioners are registered in Hong Kong and will assess whether this health programme suits your health.
Related Treatments in our Chinese Medicine Clinics
Cupping
Cupping therapy is an ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practice that involves suctioning or vacuuming sections of the body. The cups are heated by swabbing rubbing alcohol on the bottom and then lighting the cup. It can also be done by placing an inverted cup over a flame to aid in suctioning.
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Facial Acupuncture
Praised for hundreds of years in Asia for its anti-age benefits, facial acupuncture brings about a revolution in our quest for beauty. Facial acupuncture has various health benefits for us just like the other acupuncture Hong Kong treatments that Balance Health and wellness center offers. It can reduce wrinkles, lift sagging skin, eliminate fine lines and improve skin colour and texture. Many have found it to be effective even after one treatment.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine
Balance Health’s registered Chinese medicine doctors combine the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine with a holistic view of your physical and emotional needs. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the fundamental objective is to restore and maintain the natural balance in your body.
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Nutritional Coaching
Food is energy. It can make us vibrant and help us to climb our daily mountains or it can plumet us slowly and surely. Once our energy is dysregulated, our body-mind-spirit are affected. However, through Functional Nutrition, we have the power to influence easily and rapidly what we are made of and how we can function at an optimal level.
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Practitioners
Michelle Zhang
appt@balancehealth.com.hk
+852 2530 3315Michelle is trained as a typical TCM doctor and an exoerienced acupuncture specialist.
Michelle Zhang, registered Chinese medicine practitioner and licensed acupuncturist: anxiety, insomnia, and the stress patterns that slow a metabolism.
Clara Chan
appt@balancehealth.com.hk +852 2530 3315Clara Chan is a master on the different areas of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Srdjan Dobic, known as Serg, macrobiotic nutritionist of thirty years and youngest graduate of the Kushi Institute. He teaches you to cook for the body you have.
Michelle Zhang
appt@balancehealth.com.hk +852 2530 3315Michelle is trained as a typical TCM doctor and an exoerienced acupuncture specialist.
Michelle Zhang, registered Chinese medicine practitioner and licensed acupuncturist: anxiety, insomnia, and the stress patterns that slow a metabolism.
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Chanel Adams
“I did 3 acupuncture sessions here with Dr. Clara Chan and now the pain is like 95% better.”
I have carpal tunnel in both arms. My hands were so bad that I couldn't hold a pen to sign my name. I would recommend her for any pain-related problems. She deserves a medal.
Shiori
“Dr. Clara helped me to improve my menstrual cycle in the first 3 months with acupuncture, moxibustion and Chinese herbs and I felt a big improvement in my menstrual pain.”
After 3 months of treatment, I was not able to visit her for 6 weeks but she prescribed me Chinese herbs to take to maintain my improved menstrual condition. I started visiting her again and after a month, I found out I was pregnant!
Chris
“I went to Michelle for Gua sha and acupuncture treatment. After the treatment…I felt like my spine was relaxed, no more pains and tensions, and I slept very well during that week.”
I was suffering from cervical spondylosis for quite a long time. Furthermore, I went to Michelle for Gua sha and acupuncture treatment. Unlike my previous experience, this time was not so painful.
Avey Cortes
“Michelle approaches with curiosity, warmth and made me feel comfortable immediately”
During the cupping and acupuncture session she was very detailed and again made me feel comfortable with her thorough guidance. She also recommended some Chinese herbs to help with my sleep which is also a contributing factor to my injuries.
Vitali G.
“After receiving acupuncture for about 30 minutes I left the clinic and started feeling so much better within 1 hour after the treatment.”
Grace is one of the best TCM practitioners that I know! She literally transformed my energy levels from very low and feeling almost ill to feeling really great again!
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