Who should not use moxibustion

As we all know, Chinese medicine has a long history in my country. Moxibustion is one of the most commonly used methods in Chinese medicine. By stimulating certain acupuncture points on the human body, it can relieve physical discomfort and achieve the effects of prolonging life and maintaining health. Common uses include removing toxins and dampness through moxibustion, treating stomach problems, and regulating women's menstrual disorders and uterine coldness. However, there are also many people who are not suitable for moxibustion. Let’s take a look below.

Moxibustion can warm the meridians and dredge the collaterals, dispel cold and disperse blood stasis, support yang and replenish the body, restore yang and rescue from adverse conditions, promote qi and activate blood circulation, eliminate blood stasis and disperse nodules, and replenish the middle and benefit qi. Therefore, it is loved by many health-conscious people, but moxibustion is not suitable for everyone. So who is not suitable for moxibustion?

Who is not suitable for moxibustion?

1. For those who lack patience, moxibustion needs to be persisted for a long time, even if it is only 10 minutes a day. Regular and quantitative treatment is best, especially for warm moxibustion. It is no longer necessary to strictly select acupoints according to the ancient system of meridians and meridians.

People who lack perseverance will give up when they see that some of their symptoms have improved, but they will think about cards, mahjong and women day and night.

People who have no time, no matter whether they are rich or poor, are especially busy all day long without knowing what they are busy with.

People who are timid, when they see the previous symptoms reappear after moxibustion, will immediately go to the hospital for an IV drip, take medicine, and receive intravenous drips as if the sky is falling.

For patients with hypertension, although moxibustion is introduced in various professional books, it depends on the severity of the disease. The more reliable method is to control blood pressure first and then select acupoints based on syndrome differentiation.

Benign tumors require strict differentiation.

Moxibustion is not recommended for malignant tumors as it can cause excessive heat in the blood.

People with metal implants in their bodies should be cautious when using moxibustion. It is a simple physical principle and I will not go into details.

Those who oppose or do not accept traditional culture for other reasons.

What are the adverse reactions after moxibustion?

First of all, depending on the distance, there will be a feeling of scalding or even burning. If the yin and cold are extremely severe, the reaction will be relatively slow, and some people may not feel hot but instead feel a chill flowing along the meridians.

People with severe cold often feel extremely itchy, those with severe rheumatism often feel numbness, and those with both severe rheumatism and cold have both numbness and itching, which is different from the normal feeling of numbness and itching when experiencing heat. Those with extremely severe cold do not feel itchy during moxibustion, but only feel itchy several hours after moxibustion; and some people continue to have unbearable itching until the moxibustion is thorough.

Those who respond well will fart after about half an hour of moxibustion, and may even feel obvious gas movement in the abdomen.

People with severe dampness and cold, especially those in the lower abdomen, will feel abdominal pain 2 or 3 hours later, or even have diarrhea, and smell a very fishy odor the next day. This is more common in women.

Drowsiness, increased appetite.

People with extremely yin and cold constitution, especially women, are normal before moxibustion, but reappear the previous symptoms after moxibustion, indicating that the moxibustion was not thorough. Because the yin and cold have been dormant for a long time, the sudden disturbance by the moxibustion fire causes the yin and yang to fight against each other, and the yang cannot defeat the yin temporarily, so this happens.

People with heavy dampness or delicate skin will develop blisters. It is best to puncture the blisters when they are plump and shiny after 12 hours. For the treatment of moxibustion sores, please refer to the previous article in this blog.

Very few people feel dizzy after moxibustion.

People with qi and blood deficiency will feel tired, sleepy, and exhausted after a few moxibustion treatments... They should first eat tonic food and then do moxibustion.