Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Moxibustion

The core function of moxibustion is to warm the meridians, dissipate cold and replenish deficiency. It has a clear effect on improving cold constitution, chronic cold-deficiency diseases, and strain-related discomforts. Blind moxibustion for people with excessive heat and yin deficiency constitution will aggravate internal heat and consume body fluids. There is no so-called "cure all diseases" effect. Ordinary people practice it at home, choose suitable acupuncture points, and control the duration and frequency of moxibustion. It is far more important than pursuing high temperature and high-frequency fumigation.

Last week, a regular customer came to the store, a 42-year-old accountant named Sister Zhang. She has been sitting in the office blowing the air conditioner all year round. Her shoulders were as stiff as frozen slate. She was so painful that she broke out in cold sweats before coming to visit her. I had read online guides at home and smoked my belly with a moxibustion box every day for almost two months. Her shoulders were not healed, but she kept developing oral ulcers. She also had nosebleeds in the morning. She came to me anxiously to ask if she was suffering from "heat caused by moxibustion". I changed the acupuncture points on her belly to Jianjing and Zusanli. I only moxibustion a single acupuncture point for 15 minutes each time. I asked her to come twice a week. After only half a month of doing it, she said her shoulders were much looser. My aunt didn't take any painkillers last time.

Speaking of which, there are a lot of controversies in the moxibustion circle now. I went to Shandong for exchanges two years ago and met an old man who had been doing traditional moxibustion all his life. He insisted that "moxibustion sores have to appear before the effect is achieved." When I met patients with old chronic bronchitis and chronic cough and asthma, moxibustion was directly performed on Feishu. The moxibustion did not stop until small blisters or even shallow scars appeared. It was said that this was to bring out the cold evil in the body. After the treatment, the frequency of coughing and wheezing of many patients was indeed reduced a lot. However, most colleagues who do home health care do not agree with this idea. After all, ordinary people are prone to infection when doing it at home without adequate disinfection. The temperature of mild moxibustion is not high. As long as the acupoints are matched correctly, the effect of warming and clearing can still be achieved. There is no need to suffer this penalty. Both statements are actually valid, but the applicable scenarios and groups of people are different.

Many people think that moxibustion is not harmful anyway, and it is always right to use it for a while. Don't believe it. I met an aunt a while ago. She was retired and had nothing to do at home. She could do moxibustion for three or four hours a day. The living room was filled with smoke every day, and she felt dizzy and had a sore throat. She said it was a "disease elimination reaction". I persuaded her for a long time to reduce the frequency. To put it bluntly, ordinary people do not need to be so rigorous in their health care. Ten to 15 minutes per acupuncture point, two to three times a week is completely sufficient. If you feel dry mouth or dizzy after moxibustion, stop for two days and drink more warm water. Don't insist on detoxification. Oh, by the way, there are still people who moxibustion Guanyuan and Zusanli no matter what the problem is. This is not right. For example, if you have a toothache or tonsil inflammation recently, and you keep moxibustion on Guanyuan, isn't that adding fuel to the fire?

Some people also say that moxibustion is an IQ tax. In fact, most people use the wrong method. For example, if you have a cold due to wind-heat, your throat hurts so much that you can't speak, and your nose keeps flowing, and you go for moxibustion on Dazhui, it will definitely be useless, and it may even make it worse. But if you have just caught a cold, have runny nose, and feel tight all over, you can quickly moxibustion the vertebrae for 15 minutes to induce a light sweat. Many people will feel comfortable the same day. I usually stay up late to catch up with the plan, and the next day I feel a little qi deficient, so I will take a small portable moxibustion machine and perform Qi Hai for 10 minutes. The warm and hot Qi will slowly spread from my stomach. It is much more comfortable than drinking two glasses of iced Americano, and I will not feel flustered or shake my hands.

I have been in this business for almost ten years, and I never tell my customers that moxibustion can cure all diseases. To put it bluntly, it is just a conditioning tool passed down from our ancestors. Just like the wolfberry or mugwort foot soaking water you usually brew, if you choose the right one to suit your body, it can help bring your body into a comfortable state. If you use it indiscriminately, it will easily cause trouble. If you really want to try moxibustion, don't just buy a bunch of moxibustion instruments and moxibustion gift packages worth thousands of yuan. First, find a regular physical therapy center and try it once or twice to feel your body's reaction. It is more reliable than reading hundreds of tips on the Internet.