Why can't you do moxibustion on cloudy days

People who know how to keep in good health will perform moxibustion regularly to achieve health benefits for the body. And people who have a certain understanding of health knowledge should also know that there are many things to pay attention to during the moxibustion process, such as moxibustion cannot be performed on rainy days. Although most people know that moxibustion cannot be performed on this day, most people do not know the specific reason why moxibustion cannot be performed on cloudy days.

Can I do moxibustion on rainy days?

Health preservation means nourishing yang, absorbing the sun's yang energy and eliminating yin and moisture in the body. Moxibustion uses "fire attack" to open the acupuncture points, dredge the meridians, and thus "expel" various toxins from the body. After sunset, the yin energy and moisture rise, and the acupoints of the human body will automatically close. At this time, if you use "fire attack" to forcibly "break in", it will not attract yang energy but yin energy and moisture.

The humidity is very high on rainy days, and moxibustion also draws moisture into the body.

This is why many people who do moxibustion regularly not only do not feel better, but instead develop some new discomforts. Once anything is linked to profit, people will do whatever it takes. Now, a variety of health-care moxibustion clinics have emerged, and their business is most popular at night. These people perform moxibustion on customers at night either out of ignorance or against their conscience.

When is the best time to do moxibustion?

Chinese medicine experts point out that the best season for Chinese medicine moxibustion therapy is summer. Because we wear less clothes in the summer, it is very convenient to do moxibustion at home even if you don’t go to the hospital. It is not like in the winter when you can easily catch a cold if you take off your clothes to do moxibustion at home. Moreover, when the weather is hot, the human body is more sensitive to temperature and is not easily burned. The most important thing is that moxibustion in summer is in line with the theory of "treating winter diseases in summer" in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people with yang deficiency and qi deficiency are more suitable for acupuncture therapy. Most of the sick people have a yang deficiency constitution. Mugwort is warm in nature and is a purely yang substance. Moxibustion can warm the meridians, eliminate cold and dampness, and replenish the body's yang energy. Summer happens to be the time when the yang energy in nature is at its strongest. The yang and heat of the two combined have a stronger warming and tonic effect. Therefore, the tonic effect of moxibustion can be best achieved in the summer when the Yang energy of nature is at its peak.

The specific time of moxibustion should vary from person to person, depending on each person's physical condition and the symptoms to be treated. For example, to regulate the spleen and stomach functions, you can do it between 9 and 11 in the morning; to regulate the heart function and nourish the heart, it is best to do it between 11 and 1 in the afternoon.

The ancients were very particular about the time for moxibustion in health preservation, following the laws of nature. Every day: In the morning, the yang energy of people and nature rises, is peaking at noon, and then gradually decreases. Therefore, people who need to replenish yang energy can perform moxibustion in the morning. If moxibustion is performed to replenish yang energy in the evening, it may cause insomnia due to the failure of yang to enter yin at night.

In fact, there is no question of whether it is better to do moxibustion in the morning or in the evening. The key is to see what problem you need to solve. For example, the lung belongs to gold in the five elements. According to the principle of mutual generation and restraint of the five elements, earth produces gold, and gold produces water. According to the principle of "replenishing the mother when weak and draining the son when full", if the lung is hot, you can do moxibustion when the kidney meridian is working between 5 and 7 pm, because the kidney belongs to water. The rest are the same principles, and you can draw inferences from one example to another. However, after 11pm, moxibustion is not allowed unless it is an emergency.