What is Moxibustion?

Moxibustion, moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture therapy, uses moxibustion materials made from moxa leaves to stimulate body surface acupoints or specific parts, and stimulates the activity of menstrual energy to adjust the physiological and biochemical functions of the human disorder to prevent A treatment for the purpose of treatment.

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Moxibustion, Chinese medicine

1. The word "moxibustion" was first mentioned in "Zhuangzi" in the existing literature. Such as "Zhuangzi Pirates" contains Confucius persuasion

Because moxibustion uses moxibustion and moxibustion, inadvertent moxibustion may cause local skin burns. On the other hand, some essence and blood are consumed during moxibustion, so some areas or some people cannot moxibustion. These are contraindications . There are many taboos in ancient moxibustion. Although some taboos can be broken, some situations should be taboo.

1. Do not use moxibustion directly on exposed parts, such as the face, to prevent the formation of scars and affect the appearance.

2. Do not use moxibustion for thin skin, few muscles, and gluten accumulation in the lumbosacral region, lower abdomen, nipples, genitals, and testicles of men and women during pregnancy. In addition, do not directly moxibustion the joints. In addition, do not use moxibustion at large blood vessels or the heart. Eyeballs are facial or facial.

3. Extreme fatigue, hunger, fullness, drunkenness, sweating, emotional instability, or women's menstrual periods avoid moxibustion.

4. Some infectious diseases, high fever, coma, convulsions, or extreme failure of the body, shape thin bones and other moxibustion.

5. People who do not have the ability to control themselves, such as mental patients, avoid moxibustion.

1. Be dedicated and patient. Persevere: Pay attention to your concentration during moxibustion. Do not distract while moxibustion, so that the moxa sticks are not moved. They are not on the acupuncture points, hurt your skin and waste time. For health care and moxibustion, it is necessary to adhere to it for a long time. Occasionally, moxibustion cannot achieve the expected results.

2. Pay attention to the accuracy of the body position and acupuncture points. On the one hand, the body position must be suitable for the needs of moxibustion. At the same time, the body position must be comfortable and natural.

3. Fire protection: Many people's clothing is made of chemical fiber, down and other textures, and it is easy to ignite. Therefore, pay attention to prevent fire when moxibustion, especially when using moxa moxibustion to prevent it from rolling. Fall off. After moxa stick moxibustion, the lighted end of moxa stick can be stuffed into a bottle with a diameter larger than that of moxa stick to facilitate its extinction.

4. Pay attention to keep warm and prevent heatstroke: Because part of the body surface should be exposed during moxibustion, keep warm in winter, prevent heatstroke in high temperature in summer, and also pay attention to the regulation of indoor temperature and turn on the ventilator to get fresh air in time.

5. To prevent infection: purulent moxibustion or improper moxibustion, local burns may cause sores and moxibustion sores. Do not break the sores. If the infection has been ulcerated, use anti-inflammatory drugs in time.

6. Master the procedure of moxibustion: if the acupuncture points are many and scattered, it should be carried out in the order of back, chest, abdomen, head and limbs.

7. Pay attention to the time of moxibustion: Some diseases must pay attention to the time of moxibustion, such as insomnia, moxibustion before going to bed. Do not moxibuste on an empty stomach before meals and immediately after meals.

8. Step by step, the first use of moxibustion should pay attention to master the amount of stimulation, first a small amount, a small dose, such as using small moxa, or moxibustion time is shorter, stronger number is less. Increase the dose later. Do not start in large doses at the beginning.

9. Preventing fainting and moxibustion Although fainting and moxibustion are rare, once the fainting and moxibustion occurs, dizziness, dizziness, nausea, pale complexion, palpitation, sweating, etc., may even cause fainting. After the occurrence of halo moxibustion, stop moxibustion immediately, lie down and lie still, add moxibustion to Zusanli, and gently moxibustion for about 10 minutes.

10. Pay attention to the adjustment of moxibustion temperature: For people or children with dull skin feeling, place the index finger and middle finger on both sides of the moxibustion site to sense the temperature of the moxibustion site, so as not to burn the skin and get good results. ^[1]

The main material of moxibustion therapy is moxa, which is processed from moxa leaves. The artemisia leaves grown in the wild in the sunny place in May are used. After air-drying, they can be used indoors for one year. Take the aged cooked wormwood to remove the coarse stalks of impurities, sifter after crushing, remove the sharp chips, take the white fibrils and then roll into velvet. It is also advisable that after the new wormwood leaves are fully dried in the same year, they are rolled several times until they are rotted like cotton and become wormwood.

1. Ai's production

An appropriate amount of moxa is placed in a flat-bottomed disk, which is pinched into a cylindrical shape with food, middle, and thumb. The more compact the moxa is, the better it can be. According to the needs, moxa can be made into three types: large thumb, broad bean and wheat grain, which are called large, medium and small. Figure 146.

2. Production of moxa

Squeeze an appropriate amount of moxa with two hands to grow into strips. The hardness should be moderate. It is better to burn charcoal. Then place it on mulberry paper or cotton paper with a width of about 5.5 cm and a length of about 25 cm. It is formed into a cylindrical shape, and the edges of the paper are adhered with a batter paste, and the paper ends at both ends are compacted to form a moxa roll having a length of about 20 cm and a diameter of about 1.5 cm.

3 Making spacers

In interval moxibustion, different spacers need to be selected, such as fresh ginger slices, garlic slices, garlic paste, medicine bottles, etc. They should be prepared before moxibustion. Fresh ginger and garlic are washed and cut into slices with a thickness of about 2-3 mm, and used between ginger and garlic slices

Moxibustion is increasingly becoming two hotspots of health consumption in health consumption and beauty consumption, and presents four major trends:

1. Rising trend of daily consumption

According to data from the National Statistical Yearbook, residents' health consumption accounted for 5.9% of total consumption expenditure in 1997. In 2007, residents' health consumption accounted for 8.7% of total consumption expenditure. With the improvement of living standards, the proportion and total amount of beauty sculpting consumption in residents' consumption is also increasing.

2. Focus on health trends

The ratio of medical consumption to health consumption in 1987 was approximately 9.8: 0.2, and the ratio of medical consumption to health consumption in 2007 was approximately 7: 3. Obviously, with the continuous improvement of living standards, people's awareness of health care has become higher and higher, and health consumption has evolved from the stage of focusing on "illness and treatment" to the stage of focusing on "no disease prevention". In the field of beauty, people's consumption habits have also changed from focusing on external maintenance to a new realm of internal adjustment and external maintenance, and internal and external maintenance.

3. Green medical trends

Green medicine refers to medical methods that can cure people's illnesses without harming their bodies. With the continuous progress of civilization, people have realized that antibiotics have caused great harm to human health while relieving human illness. Traditional Chinese medicine treatments with thousands of years of history, such as a bowl of soup, a needle, a column of moxibustion, etc., are exactly the typical representatives of green medicine. Green therapies with traditional Chinese medicine as the core are being paid more and more attention to and become a worldwide trend. Similarly, chemical synthetic beauty products are gradually being replaced by biological beauty products.

4, health care epidemic

Health care is an inevitable trend of human survival and development in the future. The concept of passive physiotherapy is only gradually eliminated when there is disease. Active prevention, ordinary health care, and true love for life have become the trend. This is also in line with TCM's "prevention and treatment of terminal illness" prevention concept. Health care has formed a new industry and a promising natural industry. Its development determines the prosperity and prosperity of a nation, and its market prospects are unlimited!

It can be seen that moxibustion health has an excellent mass foundation and cultural background in China, and has a good market development prospect. Moxibustion health will also become the leading health care industry.

1. After moxibustion, there is often a reaction that aggravates the disease. This is a normal phenomenon of war between righteousness and evil. Our human body is a whole. There is a distinction between yin and yang. It is impossible to only expel righteousness and expel it. Then the evil stayed in the body for a long time, and he would not easily obey. So at this time, there will be a reaction. If you use moxibustion to stimulate righteousness and want to drive me out, then I will stubbornly resist. At this time, the righteousness is insufficient, and when the evil is strong, of course, you will have various discomforts. When you gradually moxibustion, and a lot of righteousness accumulates in your body, the disease will gradually get out of your body.

2. Insomnia: Insomnia often occurs after moxibustion. If insomnia occurs after the first moxibustion, it is also a reaction. At this time, insomnia is usually very tired and lethargic. But after a period of moxibustion, if there is little sleep at this time, but the phenomenon of fatigue and weakness will not appear, but because of moxibustion, it appears energetic. At this time, don't worry about lack of sleep time, and don't deliberately use the sleeping pills to get enough sleep time, mainly depending on whether your own energy is sufficient, and moxibustion in the moxibustion will also quickly improve the function of the spleen.

The phenomenon of moxibustion channeling, sometimes when we moxibustion, there will be discomfort in the liver area, or discomfort in the stomach and abdomen. This is very likely that your liver has hidden troubles or your stomach has a disease. Moxibustion will take the initiative Help you adjust, this is the channeling function of moxibustion. Therefore, our body has a self-adjusting function. As long as you mobilize well, these will work. If you moxibustion Guanyuan, it may reflect your hidden problems in gynecology or prostate problems or some diseases of the reproductive system. The rise and fall of the body's "yin and yang" has its fixed law, and the vitality gradually becomes sufficient. The "yin and yang" must operate in accordance with its laws, and the rise will naturally rise, and the fall will naturally fall. There is no need to use humans. Way to mobilize lifting.

3. The phenomenon of moxibustion getting angry, many people will have dry mouth after moxibustion. This is also a reaction of moxibustion. This phenomenon indicates that yin and yang are adjusting and yang is overwhelming. At this time, drink plenty of boiling water. At this time, the patient feels that the throat is abnormally dry and painful. This is an inevitable symptom when the disease (cold evil) gradually emerges. (Where the disease is driven away, where the so-called inflammation of Western medicine will appear. At this time, many experts in Chinese medicine will think that If the moxibustion is overdone, the treatment will be stopped immediately, resulting in a shortfall.)

4. After the moxibustion, there is a similar allergy phenomenon in the body. Many people have a lot of rashes after moxibustion. At this time, they think they are allergic. In fact, these symptoms are all true yang energy to drive out the cold evil. Outgoing performance. It is also the reaction of the evil on the body surface. If moxibustion is stopped at this time, the evil will still enter, eroding the internal organs. If the skin is severe at this time, you can use bloodletting to make the evil come out. You can bleed blood in the acupoints of Dazhui, Foot Sun, Bladder Meridian, and Weizhong acupoint to give evidence to the evil.

5. Psychological reaction after moxibustion: Many people will experience symptoms similar to depression. At this time, you can talk to someone. You can cry or shout in the wild. Be sure to vent it. Don't be depressed. New disease.

Therefore, during moxibustion, do not eat spicy and irritating foods, do not over-hunt, do not have sex, eat light food, and keep your mood happy, go outdoors or take a walk. It is not possible to do moxibustion without exercise. . To achieve better results, you must exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. ^[2]

1. The side effects of moxibustion are mainly manifested in the wrong judgment of the physical constitution of the body, the wrong selection of acupuncture points, and the resulting physical discomfort, which can be adjusted after being guided by the correct method.

2. Moxibustion has the advantages of obvious effect, simplicity, economy, and practicality. It has almost no toxicity and side effects. As long as the operation method is proper, the acupuncture point is accurate, and it will not cause adverse reactions to the human body. Moxibustion supplements the body with yang, especially for

The equipment needed for moxibustion is roughly divided into the following 7 categories:

1, handicrafts, Feng Shui props moxibustion device: gourd moxibustion (Fu Lu moxibustion).

2, bamboo moxibustion box Moxibustion box is mainly divided into: single hole, double hole and porous.

3. Portable moxibustion: Portable moxibustion mainly distinguishes warm moxibustion sticks and warm moxibustion boxes by their models.

4. Fire Dragon Moxibustion: There are mainly wooden boxes and metal cans, such as jade moxibustion, which is made of jade.

5. New type moxibustion device: external medical silica gel, the inside is ceramic gall, cylindrical, single hole, you can moxibust multiple points.

6. Column type moxibustion box: It mainly includes single-column temperature moxibustion box and double-column temperature moxibustion box.

7. Vertical moxibustion device: It is mainly divided into single-head vertical moxibustion device and double-head vertical moxibustion device.

8, physical therapy moxibustion: special cotton cloth wrapped in a special iron box burning moxa, moxibustion of its affected area.

9, Xinpu moxibustion: special wooden box, ginger mud on the bottom, moxa on the top, you can moxibustion the whole body.

TCM experts point out that the most suitable season for TCM moxibustion is summer. Because there is less clothing in the summer, even if you don't go to the hospital, moxibustion at home is very convenient, unlike in the winter, when you take off your clothes at home, moxibustion is easy to get cold. And the weather is hot, the human body is more sensitive to temperature and is not easy to be burned. The most important thing is that moxibustion in summer is in line with the theory of "winter disease and summer treatment" in Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine believes that people with yang deficiency and qi deficiency are more suitable for acupuncture therapy. Most of those who are ill are of Yang deficiency. Artemisia leaves are warm and belong to pure yang. Moxibustion can warm the meridians, eliminate cold and dampness, and nourish yang. Summer is also the time when the yang is the heaviest in the natural world. The yang heat of the two is combined, and the effect of warming up is stronger. Therefore, moxibustion can achieve the best effect in the summer when the natural yang is at its peak.

Moxibustion should consider the influence of time, geography, climate and other factors to determine the amount of moxibustion. For example, in winter, a large amount of moxibustion should be used to eliminate cold and numbness, and to help Yang return to Jue; Overcast. The north is cold and cold, and the amount of moxibustion should be large; the southern climate is warm, and the amount of moxibustion should be small.

Different ages, physiques, and genders, the rise and fall of yin and yang, qi and blood, and tolerance to moxibustion are also different. Elderly or frail people use health moxibustion, the amount of moxibustion should be small, but it must be maintained for a long time;

The number of strong adults increases with age.

As for the degree of moxibustion, after the moxibustion, you should be consciously warm and comfortable, go straight to the deep, and last for a long time. After stopping the moxibustion for a long time, there is still temperature before you reach home. The "Yizong Jinjian" believes: "Every moxibustion of various diseases must be full of energy, and then they can be healed. However, the skin of the head and limbs is thin. Or moxibustion every other day, its Ai Yi should be small, strong number should be less. Those who are sick must be moxibustion giant mastiff, dove tail two points, must not be three or five strong. The back and lower skin are thick, Ai Yi should be large, strong It should be more, so that the anger can reach the cold disease. "Therefore, no matter which acupuncture point is used, the amount of heat must be sufficient, and the heat must be able to penetrate the body and go directly to the disease. In order to prevent the pain during moxibustion, it is proposed that moxibustion can be performed every other day, and the size and number of moxa are determined according to the severity of the disease and the position of the acupoints.

How to deal with moxibustion after moxibustion is not used up:

Moxa is best not to be truncated. It is very wasteful. The best way to extinguish it is not to use water, otherwise it will take a long time to use it next time. I introduce a method that is both safe and trouble-free: find a two or two empty wine bottle, and when you want to extinguish the moxa stick, put the burning part of moxa stick directly into the bottle mouth, and it will go out in two minutes. It also ignites well. The square bottle does not roll and is stable. So it's safe.