Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly used to lose weight by acupuncture at corresponding points and other commonly used auxiliary treatments. Modern medicine believes that simple obesity is often accompanied by endocrine disorders, and various hormones, especially insulin, sex hormones, adrenocortical hormones, leptin and other abnormalities, can be adjusted by acupuncture to make them normal. On the other hand, according to the syndrome differentiation of viscera, obesity is mainly related to the functions of liver, spleen and kidney. Acupuncture can regulate viscera and restore normal liver, spleen and kidney function. Traditional Chinese medicine uses the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment to lose weight, starting with regulating endocrine, and regulating neuroendocrine function of obese people through comprehensive treatment such as acupuncture and acupoint.