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Can smoked moxa sticks help you lose weight?

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Asked on:Apr 10, 2026 09:08 AM

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  • Blythe Blythe

    Apr 10, 2026

    Traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion can lose weight, prevent diseases, and cure diseases. It has a history of thousands of years in China. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, people had begun to widely use moxa-moxibustion. For example, in "Zhuangzi" it is said that "the Yue people smoked it with moxa", and in "Mencius" there is also a description of "seven years of illness requires three years of moxa". There are countless more in medical works of various generations. Moxibustion can stimulate and enhance the body's immune function and improve the body's disease resistance.

    Aizhi weight loss treatment method weight loss treatment method

    Excessive accumulation of fat in the human body and overloading the body is called obesity. It occurs when the caloric intake of the body exceeds the caloric consumption, resulting in excessive accumulation of fat in the body. A person's weight depends on the amount of fat tissue in the body and the content of lipids in the fat tissue. Most people who become obese as adults have cell hypertrophy without a sustained increase in the number.

    Moxibustion stimulates acupuncture points, regulates the balance of blood and qi in the body's meridians and internal organs, promotes gastrointestinal motility, reduces fat absorption, improves metabolism, and achieves weight loss.

    Moxibustion weight loss treatment effect of moxibustion

    Moxibustion weight loss treatment method promotes qi and blood circulation

    All normal life activities of the body depend on the function of blood and Qi. When Qi moves, blood circulates, and when Qi stops, blood stops. The flow of Qi and blood in the meridians is entirely due to the information push of "Qi". Moxibustion therapy uses its damp and heat stimulating properties to warm the meridians and relieve numbness. Through the hot and moist stimulation of meridian points by hot moxibustion, it can promote qi and blood circulation, improve the body's blood and qi operation, and achieve clinical treatment purposes. Therefore, moxibustion therapy can be used to treat conditions such as paralysis and diarrhea caused by cold blood, stagnation and astringency, and the actual effect is quite obvious.

    Aizhi weight loss treatment, disease prevention, health care

    Acupuncture points on moxa can make people's stomach blood strong, qi and blood sufficient, and essence qi full, thereby improving the body's resistance and making it difficult for diseases to occur, thus achieving the effect of disease prevention and health care. In modern times, the disease prevention and health care functions of traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion have become one of the important health care methods.

    Basic principles of Aizhi weight loss therapy

    1. Moxibustion first causes heat

    When the skin is heated, the pores of the skin expand, allowing the drug to quickly penetrate into the subcutaneous tissue and penetrate the disease. Every time the cell temperature rises by one degree, its oxidation rate using CO2 increases by 2.5 times. Traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion can improve the ability and speed of cells to digest and absorb nutrients.

    2. Moxibustion can be combined with other Chinese medicinal materials besides mugwort.

    After adding many precious Chinese herbal medicines to the raw materials of moxibustion, its medicinal ingredients can quickly reach the disease. Under the action of heat supply and moxibustion power, it can relax muscles, activate blood circulation, and activate cells in an instant.

    3. Moxibustion can instantly stimulate Shu points on the meridians and connect the meridians.

    4. When moxibustion is applied to Shu points on the body, Shu points on the meridian have their own double buffering effect. For example, diarrhea and constipation are two completely opposite psychological disorders. Only one acupuncture point, Moxi Tianshu, can solve the two problems of constipation and diarrhea.

    5. After moxibustion, heat sensitivity will occur at Shu points on the meridians. Intermediate frequency, heat expansion, heat conduction, partial heating and remote heating, superficial heating and shallow heating, etc. may cause other non-thermal sensations.

    Moxibustion acupoints or prevent moxibustion acupoints from causing soreness, swelling, pressure, heaviness, pain, numbness, cold and other sensations.

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