Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) weight loss before meals is mainly through acupuncture at corresponding points and other commonly used auxiliary treatment methods. Modern medicine believes that simple obesity is often accompanied by endocrine disorders, and various hormones, especially insulin, sex hormones, adrenocortical hormones and leptin, 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.