Complete list of moxibustion effects

In traditional Chinese medicine, emphasis is placed on meridians. The body is healthiest only when the meridians are unobstructed and connected in all directions. If there is a problem with the meridians, it can cause diseases such as neuralgia. Therefore, Chinese medicine treats the body through acupuncture, massage and other treatment methods. Moxibustion stimulates the meridians through heat therapy to speed up metabolism. So what effects can acupuncture have and what diseases can it treat?

Moxibustion can warm the meridians and dispel cold

Moxibustion can warm and unclog the meridians, promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, relieve numbness and relieve pain. It can be used to treat various diseases caused by cold blood stasis and meridian obstruction, such as wind-cold warm arthralgia, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, cold hernia abdominal pain and other symptoms.

Moxibustion can promote the flow of qi and unblock meridians

Due to the invasion of external factors such as wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire, the human body or local qi and blood stagnates, and the meridians are blocked, which can cause symptoms such as swelling and pain and a series of functional disorders. At this time, moxibustion treatment of certain acupoints can play a role in harmonizing qi and blood, dredging meridians, and balancing functions.

It can be used clinically for sores, furunculosis, frostbite, urinary retention, infertility, sprains and bruises, etc., especially in surgery and traumatology. If used in the early stages of surgical treatment for ulcers, it can treat ulcers that have not healed for a long time, and has the effect of promoting healing and muscle growth.

Moxibustion can remove toxins and relieve heat

There are also records of "moxibustion for heat" in ancient documents. The use of moxibustion to treat carbuncle was first seen in "Huangdi Neijing". Medical books of all dynasties have regarded moxibustion as an important treatment for this disease. Moxibustion can use heat to draw heat out. Moxibustion can dispel cold and clear away heat, which means it has a two-way regulatory effect on the body's original functional state.

Moxibustion can warm the yang and replenish deficiency

Moxibustion can warm the yang and replenish the deficiency, restore the yang and consolidate the loss. It can be used to treat spleen and kidney yang deficiency and sudden loss of original yang, such as long-term diarrhea, chronic dysentery, enuresis, spermatorrhea, impotence, premature ejaculation, collapse, shock and other symptoms. Moxibustion replenishes the body's yang energy and is especially suitable for people with yang deficiency. People with yin deficiency are generally not suitable for moxibustion.

Yang deficiency constitution: When the internal organs of the human body are dysfunctional, it is easy to show symptoms of insufficient Yang in the body and yang deficiency causing internal cold, which are often manifested by pale complexion, weak breath, fatigue and love of lying down, fear of cold and cold limbs, general weakness or limb edema, pale, plump and tender tongue with teeth marks on the edges, pale white tongue coating, deep, weak and deep pulse. It is mostly caused by congenital deficiency, invasion of cold evil or excessive consumption of cold food, excessive worry, excessive sexual intercourse, and long-term illness.

Yin deficiency constitution: refers to the condition in which the viscera function is disordered, resulting in insufficient Yin fluid in the body and symptoms of internal heat caused by Yin deficiency, which are often manifested as emaciation, flushed cheeks, hot hands and soles, hot flashes and night sweats, irritability, dry mouth, dry hair and skin, dry and red tongue with little coating, or even smooth and without coating. It is mostly caused by external invasion of dry and hot evil, excessive consumption of warm and dry foods, excessive worry, excessive sexual intercourse, and long-term illness.

Moxibustion can beautify the skin

The beauty of moxibustion is different from general cosmetic beauty and surgical beauty. One is essential and the other is superficial. Many women have rough and unclean faces, which is often caused by endocrine disorders. In fact, it is due to insufficient yang energy, not the so-called getting angry.

For example, women with patches of acne on their faces often have severe leucorrhea. "Clearing heat and detoxifying" often has no effect because the heat they have is often false heat rather than real heat. Replenishing yang energy is not enough, let alone making the situation worse. Therefore, moxibustion is the best choice.

Moxibustion can solve puffiness

Women who are overweight or bloated do not have overnutrition, but overnutrition is just a concept in Western medicine. There is no such concept in traditional Chinese medicine. If any traditional Chinese medicine practitioner also makes such a fuss, he must be a half-baked one. Even obese children are often not suffering from overnutrition but rather insufficient yang energy. This is often because their parents have a lot of sex during pregnancy, which leads to congenital deficiencies in the children, imbalances in liver and kidney function, and poor spleen function. Therefore, moxibustion therapy, which can invigorate qi and warm yang, is definitely the best conditioning method from the inside out.

Moxibustion can promote local circulation and metabolism

Moxibustion is a treatment method that uses moxa fire to stimulate specific parts of the human body to prevent and cure diseases. Its mechanism is primarily related to the warm stimulation of local fire. It is this warm stimulation that causes local skin congestion, capillary dilation, enhances local blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, relieves and eliminates smooth muscle spasms, and strengthens the metabolic capacity of local skin tissue.

Moxibustion can prevent diseases and maintain health

In addition to its therapeutic effects, moxibustion also has the functions of preventing diseases and maintaining health. It is one of the methods of disease prevention and health care. Moxibustion can warm the yang and replenish the deficiency, so moxibustion on Zusanli and Zhongwan can make the stomach qi always strong. The stomach is the sea of ​​water and grain, where the blood and qi come from, and the five internal organs are all affected by its qi. If the stomach qi is always strong, the qi and blood will be full. Mingmen is the place where the true fire of the human body is located, and it is the root of the human being. Guanyuan and Qihai are the places where essence and blood are stored. Moxibustion on the above points can make people's stomach qi strong, yang qi sufficient, and essence and blood full, thereby strengthening the body's resistance, making it difficult for pathogens to invade, and achieving the effect of disease prevention and health care. Nowadays, the disease prevention and health care function of moxibustion has become one of the important health care methods.