Can moxibustion be performed twice a day?

When people become ill, they can be treated with moxibustion. The side effects of moxibustion are much smaller than taking medicine or injections, so many people prefer to use moxibustion to treat diseases. Moxibustion needs to be divided into time and frequency. Although moxibustion is good, it will be harmful to the body if done too much. Some people want to do moxibustion twice a day. So let’s follow the editor to see if moxibustion twice a day is okay?

How many times can moxibustion be performed in a day?

There is actually no clear regulation on how many times moxibustion can be performed a day. It mainly depends on the patient's feelings during the moxibustion.

Specific analysis:

1. If the patient feels very good when moxibustion is performed on an acupoint, then moxibustion can be performed several times a day.

2. If the patient feels unwell or even painful during moxibustion, it is best not to repeat the moxibustion within a day, and the time for each moxibustion should be shorter.

Can moxibustion be performed every day?

As to the question of whether moxibustion can be done every day, it depends on different situations, and is mainly based on the actual symptoms.

1. If you have symptoms and your body can accept it, you can do moxibustion every day

For example, if the body suddenly has some acute symptoms, some of which are serious, we can use moxibustion for a longer period of time, about once or twice a day, every day until the symptoms are cured.

But there is a prerequisite that your body can bear it. You should keep a good attitude when doing moxibustion. After all, moxibustion is a chronic conditioning process.

2. Moxibustion for chronic diseases should be paused after a period of treatment

If a certain disease has troubled us for many years, that is, a chronic disease, we should take it slow when we first start doing moxibustion, and pay attention to gradual progress. In this case, we can do moxibustion every day at the beginning for about half a month, or fifteen days.

After that, take a break for two days, and then do moxibustion every day. If you feel much better after moxibustion in the first half of the month, or if you don’t have enough time, you can choose to do moxibustion every other day.

Or you can do moxibustion two to three times a week. If moxibustion causes getting a sore throat, you can use moxibustion on the Yongquan acupoint to guide the fire downward, or drink more water.

3. If you don’t have any special symptoms, try not to do moxibustion every day

If you don't have any physical illness, moxibustion is only for daily health care, and you can just moxibustion the health care points every 3-5 days. Or if you have a constitution of yin deficiency and yang excess, such as night sweats, hot hands and feet, irritability, insomnia, dry mouth, yellow urine and dry stool, you should not do moxibustion every day.

However, even if it is for health care, if you are doing moxibustion according to the course of treatment, it is best to do it continuously every day for the first three times, 15-20 minutes for each acupoint, and then you can do it every other day, and 10 days as a course of treatment. The moxibustion time for children and the elderly should be shorter.