Moxibustion is an amazing healing and health care technique that has been used since ancient China to treat diseases and health care. What is the function of moxibustion? What should I pay attention to when using moxibustion? The role of moxibustion
Local stimulation
The mechanism of action of moxibustion therapy is related to the warm stimulation of local fire, which can cause local skin congestion, capillary dilation, enhance local blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, relieve and eliminate smooth muscle spasm, strengthen the metabolic capacity of local skin tissue, promote inflammation, hematoma and other pathological products to dissipate and absorb, and also cause the diffusion of inhibitory substances in the cerebral cortex, reduce the excitability of the nervous system, and play a sedative and analgesic effect. It can also cause the diffusion of inhibitory substances in the cerebral cortex, reduce the excitability of the nervous system and exert sedative and analgesic effects, while the warming effect can also promote the absorption of drugs.
Regulating immune function
Many of the therapeutic effects of moxibustion are also achieved by regulating the immune function of the human body, and this effect has a two-way regulation, that is, the lower can make it higher, the higher can make it lower, and in the pathological state, this regulatory effect is more obvious.
Treatment of diseases
Moxibustion can be used for the treatment and rescue of acute and critical diseases, as well as for the nourishment and conditioning of chronic diseases, including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedic injury, skin, and five senses, etc. More than 200 kinds of diseases can be treated with moxibustion therapy, and the effect is very obvious.
Strengthening the spleen and stomach
Moxibustion at the point of Zhongyu can warm the spleen and Yang, nourish the middle and benefit the qi. Frequent moxibustion at the foot three li can promote digestion and increase the absorption of nutrients to nourish the whole body, thus receiving the effect of disease prevention and treatment.
Dispel dampness and dispel cold, and relieve pain
When moxibustion, the heat of moxa fire can penetrate through the muscle layer and move Qi downward, so moxibustion has the function of warming and dispersing cold, invigorating blood and relieving pain, which is effective for rheumatism, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, stomach pain, cold hernia and abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases.
The principle of moxibustion
Moxibustion is to place moxa strips or moxa wool on the acupuncture points or affected areas of the body for fumigation, ironing or compressing, with the gentle heat of moxibustion fire and the role of drugs, through the conduction of meridians, to play a gentle qi and blood, support the righteousness and eliminate evil, adjust the balance of human physiological functions, to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and treatment, health care.
Benefits of moxibustion
Moxibustion has a wide range of treatment, non-toxic side effects, and is an effective means of treatment in Chinese medicine, which can effectively regulate the physiological functions of the body, strengthen the body's resistance, treat diseases and prevent diseases. The moxibustion therapy is simple and easy to learn, as long as you master the correct application of moxibustion points, you can apply moxibustion at home to regulate the body; in addition, the moxibustion method of treatment of a wide range of diseases, with "a burn with the skin pain is stopped, a moxibustion disease immediately removed" the magical effect.
Indications for moxibustion
1. It can treat various diseases caused by cold and blood stagnation, meridian obstruction, such as wind-cold damp paralysis, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain, etc.
2. It can treat external wind and cold symptoms and deficiency cold in the middle Jiao, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc.
3. It can treat the deficiency of spleen and kidney yang, and the violent loss of vital energy, such as prolonged diarrhea, moxibustion dysentery, seminal emission, impotence, premature ejaculation, deficiency, shock, etc.
4. It can treat Qi deficiency and prolapse of organs, such as gastric prolapse, renal prolapse, uterine prolapse, prolapse of anus and prolonged leakage.
5. It can treat surgical sores and ulcers at the beginning, or sores and ulcers that do not heal for a long time, and has the effect of promoting healing and muscle growth.
6. Liver Yang can be treated by moxibustion Yongquan point.
Contraindications of moxibustion
Moxibustion is contraindicated in cases of actual heat, or Yin deficiency fever, internal incandescence of evil heat, such as high fever, hypertension, advanced tuberculosis, massive hemoptysis, vomiting, severe anemia, acute infectious diseases, skin carbuncles and boils with fever.
2. Organic heart disease with cardiac insufficiency, schizophrenia, abdomen and lumbosacral region of pregnant women are not suitable for moxibustion.
3. Direct moxibustion is not recommended for the face, neck, body surface areas where large blood vessels travel, and near mucous membranes.
In recent acupuncture clinics, it is believed that moxibustion can be applied to all acupuncture points in the human body, except for the points of eyelid, iliac, renying, and commission.
