What is the method?

HCG is a glycoprotein hormone normally secreted by placental trophoblastic cells. It was discovered in 1927 by Ascheim and Zondek in the urine of pregnant women and found that it helped mature the child sexual glands of experimental animals. Hence its name: Chorionic Gonadotrophin.
In 1954, Dr. ATW Simeons, a German doctor working in India, noticed that so-called “fat boys” with adiposogenital dystrophy improved the condition of their testicles, which had not yet descended, when treated with hCG.

Therefore hypothesized that if these children were subjected to a very low calorie diet, they could reduce their body weight by consuming these adipose deposits that were being mobilized. He subsequently extended his research to patients with varying degrees of obesity, and concluded that hCG could be useful for the treatment of obesity because:

The patients tolerated the hypocaloric diet without suffering headaches, irritability and weakness.
The maintenance period was more effective compared to simple dietary procedures.
The weight reduction was more satisfactory than that obtained with standard hypocaloric diets.
Patients lost more body fat (measured in centimeters) in areas where adipose deposits were more conspicuous.