Can moxibustion cure body odor?

Body odor is a very embarrassing disease. For patients, body odor is a symptom that is difficult for them to detect themselves. Instead, it brings an irritating smell to people around them in public places, which is unbearable. Therefore, treating body odor is an urgent desire of many patients. Using traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion to treat body odor is a popular method in modern life. Let’s take a look at whether moxibustion can cure body odor?

1. Use scissors or other tools to remove the armpit hair in the affected area and perform routine disinfection.

2. Then find the thicker sweat glands, mark them with a cotton swab dipped in Refonal solution, light the medicinal area, and then use moxibustion through garlic slices (fresh or dried garlic can be used) to make the patient feel warmth locally without burning pain.

3. Moxibustion for 20 to 30 minutes each time, and then apply a small amount of ice pentaery powder. Moxibustion can be performed once a day or every other day as appropriate, with ten times as a course of treatment.

4. After moxibustion, the skin surface becomes slightly red, and the large sweat glands are smaller than before. Generally, after two courses of treatment, the sweating and odor in the affected area will be reduced. After three courses of treatment, the disease can be basically cured.

5. Moxibustion points for treating body odor:

Ba Liao, Zhong Wan, Zi Gong, Gui Lai, Zu San Li and San Yin Jiao.

Other methods:

Apply once a day, each time for about 30 minutes, and 10 times as a course of treatment. After resting for 5 days, depending on the degree of atrophy of the larger sweat glands in the affected area and the reduction (disappearance) of odor and sweat, continue the treatment every other day or twice a week as before to consolidate the treatment until complete recovery.

In the early stage of this method, high-quality starch is mixed into a paste and applied to the affected area. This method uses the reaction between starch and sweat to fully expose the larger sweat glands, thus preparing for finding the "target" for moxibustion through garlic paste in the second step.

Moxibustion through garlic paste is also known as garlic money moxibustion. Directly applying moxibustion through garlic paste on the sweat glands can promote the flow of Qi and blood, promote the circulation of Ying and Wei, and draw toxins out of the body, that is, the so-called "dispersing the poison, shifting the heavy to the light, and turning the deep to the shallow", and promote the atrophy and death of the larger sweat glands in the affected area, thereby reducing (disappearing) the odor and sweat volume, and body odor also disappears.