I'm a Chinese Medicine Second Goat, a clinical herbalist. The effectiveness of moxibustion is not a mouthful, it is practiced.

Take myself for example. When it comes to moxibustion, I myself am one of the biggest gainers.

I've always been weak since I was a child, and even at a very old age, I still wet the bed. When I came to Guangzhou to study many years ago, I misused a lot of antibiotics and herbal teas because I was "on fire". As a result, I hurt my spleen and stomach.

It was a very hurtful injury, and the result was that I got bloated when I ate a little bit of something, and for a while I got anorexia, and I had nausea when I saw things, and every time I walked into the dining hall, there was an overwhelming hunger in my heart, but as soon as I ate a little bit of something, I got stomach pains, bloating, stabbing pains, and acid reflux. I didn't eat much, but I felt everything.

This state lasted for almost two years, and people became very thin. Because I was worried about increasing the burden on my parents, I ran to the hospital a few times after tossing around, but I didn't see any improvement, and after taking medication, it worsened instead, so I didn't go to the hospital again.

Then I learned about acupuncture, and it was mentioned in the book that moxibustion is very effective in treating yang deficiency. Combined with simple identification, it was clear that I had a cold stomach and a yang deficiency. So I ran to the medical equipment store near my school. I bought a package of moxa, followed various tutorials, and began to try to give myself moxibustion.

During the period while moxibustion and read various books specialized in moxibustion. When I saw an ancient book, "The Book of the Magpie's Heart", it mentioned that heavy moxibustion can cure major diseases and improve the physical condition. So invited a hardcore Chinese medicine students, we began to do scar moxibustion, also known as the legendary septic moxibustion.

Of course the sweet and sour of this period is only known to those who try it themselves.

To learn Chinese medicine, you have to practice and experience, you have to start with yourself. Every day at noon moxibustion, how moxibustion. It is the legendary scar moxibustion. It is to get a section of moxa columns, placed directly on the Guanyuan point to burn, until the fire is burned out, and then proceed to the next strong. Every day fifteen strong, so adhere to more than a month.

I still remember the smell of the first pillar burning my skin, and I can still feel the burning, slashing pain. But the pain is worth it. After insisting on this moxibustion for a month, the physique has greatly improved, the appetite is better, the zongqi is sufficient, and the hands and feet are warm. ....

Of course, this method is not suitable for recommending everyone to do it.

If you are a fanatic of Chinese medicine, if you have a yang deficiency and severe body cold, and if you are also suffering from all kinds of ailments, you may want to consider trying this on yourself.

After you have tried, there is no one or nothing that can shake your determination to go on in the path of Chinese medicine.

There are some things (not just illnesses) for which moxibustion is effective, such as moxibustion of the foot sanli once a year to boost immunity. There are also some diseases that are afraid of moxibustion, such as patients with severe Yin deficiency. I know how to do moxibustion (techniques, usage, duration of moxibustion, etc.), but I don't know how to cure diseases yet.

Personally experienced, once ate a bad stomach, acute gastroenteritis, the doctor prescribed Western medicine, eat after the effect is not good, usually like to read books on Chinese medicine and health, with a try attitude to go to the drugstore to buy a box of moxa, their own home moxibustion tummy, a moment inside the stomach on the gurgling, warm and quite comfortable, a did not moxibustion finished, slept, did not expect the next day was good.

All in all the efficacy is good, many times there will be unintended effects, no less than the effect of Western medicine injection and medication.

It's also in Chinese medicine, "If the needle is not enough, and the medicine is not enough, then the moxibustion must be done."

"If you are sick for seven years, you must seek moxa for three years" and other classic moxibustion quotes!

Acupuncture and cupping can not be cured can also go half, this is our year when the class teacher so flirted with. Moxibustion is acupuncture belongs to the moxibustion part, these are our cultural treasures, the crystallization of national wisdom; although moxibustion can not do anything to cure, but some diseases moxibustion effect is more significant, so in the medical level continues to improve today, moxibustion as an auxiliary means of treatment has not been abandoned.

However, with the continuous improvement of modern medicine, there are so many ways and means of treatment that moxibustion can only exist as an auxiliary treatment.

As for whether I personally would do moxibustion depends on whether or not there is a need to use it, and if my doctor recommends moxibustion I would definitely take it.

For smoked moxa and smokeless moxa if the material is both moxa leaves and the smokelessness will not affect the efficacy of the treatment I still prefer smokeless.

Moxibustion is one of the "six arts" of Chinese medicine.

The Six Arts of Confucius are Rites, Music, Archery, Royalty, Calligraphy and Mathematics, which are the skills that Confucian students must master. In the Nei Jing, acupuncture, needling, guiding, stilt pressing, tonics and moxibustion are the six TCM treatments. At that time, the six arts were not divided into high and low, and each had its own advantages, however, with the development of later generations, famous doctors of tonics and prescriptions emerged, and acupuncture was also widely respected. And acupuncture, also known as Gua Sha, seems to have become a beauty salon program. Moxibustion has been gradually accepted by society in recent years, but it is not as solid as Gua Sha.

In "Acupuncture and Moxibustion", in fact, needles and moxibustion are not separate, and good acupuncturists are able to perfectly combine needling and moxibustion. And in later generations, moxibustion is considered to be incredibly simple, and is rarely studied with care.

There has been a gradual resurgence of moxibustion in recent years. In fact, every year there are many moxibustion methods appear, moxibustion equipment is even more fancy. I have also experienced many kinds of moxibustion, however, the latter innovation mixed with too many commercial factors, lost the Chinese medicine itself, moxibustion has slowly become a beauty salon program, and even some manufacturers put forward the "silly moxibustion", that is, where uncomfortable moxibustion where, the fire is sufficiently large amount of moxibustion all the time. So that really like moxibustion, want to learn moxibustion people do not know where to start.

We often see the circle of friends forwarded to the function of moxibustion, generally know that "warm yang and fill the deficiency", "warm through the meridians" and other words, but do not understand the difference between moxibustion and in the old country burning pot when the heat of the baking. The Materia Medica from the new" said: "Ai leaves bitter and pungent, raw temperature, cooked hot, pure Yang nature, can back to the dying of the Yang, through the twelve meridians, go three yin, the qi and blood, expel the cold and dampness, warm the uterus, the fire of moxibustion, can penetrate the meridians in addition to all the diseases." Moxibustion, utilizing the characteristics of moxa heat. When moxa heat enters the body, it advances in a manner much like the flow of water, and when it encounters a place in the body where moxa heat is needed, the conduction of moxa heat stays until it fills up before it continues to be conduced forward. To summarize, moxa heat is able to "bring the qi to the place of disease".

Those who have really felt moxibustion will know that it is really effective, even if it is noticeable at the time, so if you want to do moxibustion, you should either learn the formal TCM moxibustion method yourself, or seek professional TCM practitioners for advice. My family and I, and friends around us, many of them choose moxibustion as a daily way to regulate their bodies.

Of course it is effective, and moxibustion is a key method in the four major treatment methods of ancient Chinese medicine.

In Huangdi Neijing. Vegetative Flavors. Different Methods and Formulas," it is said that Chinese medicine treatment should be based on different local environments to choose the appropriate treatment tools, among others:

The east is wood, by the sea, fish more salt, then the people in the east rely on the sea fishing for a living, so the environment of the east caused by the oriental people love to eat salty, love to eat fish, causing the eastern region of the human body heat, blood, black skin, texture sparse. So people in this region love to have carbuncle sores, these diseases are particularly suitable for "stone" to treat, is the so-called Gua Sha.

The West is gold, sandy and windy, the result of the climate here is that people grow thicker fat, so "evil can not hurt its form", the disease is born within, so it is suitable for the use of "poison" to treat. Poison and medicine are separate words, not phrases. Poison is also medicine, and medicine is also poison. Therefore, Chinese medicine actually came from the western part of China. That is why Shaanxi, Gansu, Tibet and Sichuan in the west are rich in Chinese medicine.

The north is a watery place with a cold climate, so people in the north live by hunting and raising domestic animals, and love to eat meat and dairy foods, so their organs are cold. How to cure this kind of disease? It is moxibustion. And the beginning of moxibustion with more than just moxa leaves, there are a variety of materials, in the ancient people continue to explore the process, and eventually found that moxa moxibustion effect is the best. So there is a continuation of moxibustion. This text we can explore two subversion of our current concept of knowledge: 1, meat and milk are more cold things, eat more directly will hurt our internal organs; especially milk, coldness is great. In fact, the Inner Mongolia people used to eat milk is to be made into milk tea to eat, there is made into fermented milk, so as to reduce the coldness of milk. Not like modern people drink milk directly, but also the pursuit of fresh milk, which is absolutely the wrong way of eating.

2, for the disease of internal organs, the best treatment is moxibustion. Moxibustion fire penetration is very strong, and then the old ancestors concluded that moxa is pure yang, Yang Qi is very sufficient. At least thousands or even tens of thousands of years of research and exploration, there is no herb found more suitable for moxibustion than moxa. Therefore, moxa is a very good herb to replenish the yang energy of the human body.

The South is fire, hot and humid climate, water, people here grow delicate skin color red, "Neijing" cloud "to the reason and red", and the South like to eat acid. Here many people will say, how can the southerners eat acid it. In fact, we look at the wine of the southerners can be seen, such as rice wine, yellow wine, etc., are the south of the abundance of, and its sour flavor. Southern people are characterized by easy to get spasms, that is, epidermal diseases, and the easiest treatment for these diseases is the nine needles, so the method of acupuncture originated from the southern land.

There is also the Central Plains, the Central Plains, flat, humid climate, people eat a lot of food, more miscellaneous, and due to the abundance of goods lead to people do not like to labor. This is easy to have "impotence cold and heat", that the best way to treat this kind of disease is to "guide by stilts", simply said massage. But not now go to the massage parlor of the kind of massage, the real massage is required to have the power, is the so-called inner strength, of course, not like the TV said that kind of deep inner strength.

So, Chinese medicine of the five means of treatment: gua sha, Chinese medicine, moxibustion, acupuncture, massage, this is a set of very scientific into a system of things, and for which type of body type, treatment of which type of disease with what way, this is very delicate. Moxibustion as one of the very important means of treatment, is after a thousand years of human experimentation, in fact, a few Western medicine mice experiments comparable to ah.

The decline of Chinese medicine is from before and after the May Fourth Movement, when the criticism of Chinese medicine, like the Western scientific learning, and later in the Cultural Revolution destroyed a lot of things, to the present commercial society, due to the commercial interests of the prompt, so that a lot of people continue to impede the development of Chinese medicine, until this year's new Cuanchuan pneumonia by Chinese medicine to successfully inhibit the people to begin to pay attention to the Chinese medicine, this is our sad ah. And now there are fewer and fewer real Chinese medicine, westernized Chinese medicine education is impossible to Chinese medicine, is a dead end. And moxibustion has been reduced to a health tool, is really a great national regret ah!

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I didn't believe in Chinese medicine before, but in the past few years when I got older, I always had minor health problems, so I tried it, because a friend of mine broke his foot in a fall, and when he saw a western doctor he had to have an operation, a nail, and then another operation and removal of the nail, and he was a person who was dizzy with needles, so he chose Chinese medicine, and it hurt just a little bit, and it cost him one-tenth of what it would have cost in the western doctor's office. So I think moxibustion should be effective for some ailments, but I haven't tried it, that smoky flavor does smell a bit choking, or smokeless is better.

Moxibustion therapy in Chinese medicine is great, and I also do moxibustion myself.

Moxibustion, is a kind of Chinese acupuncture therapy, is made of moxa leaves moxa columns, moxa sticks ignited smoked human body acupuncture points, with the resulting heat of moxa to stimulate the surface of the body acupuncture points or a specific part of the body, through the stimulation of meridian qi activities to regulate the human body disordered physiological and biochemical functions, so as to achieve the purpose of prevention and treatment of a natural therapy of a therapeutic method.

Wormwood is extremely vigorous and can be grown anywhere, making it easy to get. Originally, moxa was used to find water when marching in battle. Because moxa has the property of penetrating the earth's surface in search of water, its smoke would help people find water sources.

Moxibustion has been documented and used in both the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine and the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, and has made a great contribution to people's disease elimination for thousands of years.

I was in the winter of 2004, because of lumbar spine prolapse, bedridden for a few months to do biological physiotherapy, long-term lying down makes the legs muscles loose and weak, and even can not walk normally, Chinese medicine friends suggested that I use moxibustion to enhance the strength of the legs and functional recovery, every day I use moxibustion to smoke the legs, after more than three months of adherence to the legs and slowly regained its normal function as a normal person as... ...

My head was exposed to wind after giving birth, and in summer I sometimes felt cold air coming out from the top of my head and forehead, and my hair was confused; in winter, I sometimes got a headache when I got cold. I used moxibustion pots to treat the Yin Tang on my forehead, the Bai Hui point on the top of my head, and the Feng Fu point on the back of my head, and now I don't have that feeling anymore.

Many legacies have come through thousands of years of trial and error, and have been practiced more or less, and have their own wonders!

Mugwort, pungent, bitter and warm, belonging to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians, has the effect of warming the menstruation and stopping bleeding, dispersing cold and relieving pain. Moxibustion therapy, referred to as moxibustion, is the use of moxa or other drugs on the surface of the body acupuncture points burning, warm ironing, through the heat of the moxibustion fire as well as the role of the drug, through the meridian conduction, in order to play a warm through the qi and blood, to support the right to eliminate evil, to achieve prevention and treatment of disease, is the health care of an effective means of treatment. Commonly used moxibustion health points are foot Sanli point, Guanyuan point, Qihai point, moxibustion can dispel wind and cold, replenish qi cultivation.

This post is original. Moxibustion is just one of the many methods of heat therapy, and it's not the ideal choice. Moxibustion and other heat therapies (high-frequency diathermy, radiant heat therapy and conductive heat therapy.) The principle of moxibustion and other heat therapy (high-frequency transmittance heat therapy, radiation heat therapy and conduction heat therapy) is the same, that is, through the local heating to promote the blood circulation of the local tissues, enhance the metabolism and phagocytosis of leukocytes, improve the body's resistance and the ability to repair the inflammation of the early stage of inflammation dissipation, and late inflammation limit. The disadvantages of moxibustion are: small heating range, inconvenient operation (can not be too close or too far away), air pollution and so on. If you say that the medicinal effect of moxa is penetrated into the muscles by burning moxa sticks, then you are thinking too much. I have not used moxa for over 30 years. By the same token, the efficacy of a tens of thousands of dollars of Frequency Pu machine is the same as that of a ten dollar infrared ray, so don't pay your IQ tax.

Moxa and other heat therapy tools are nothing more than a carrier of heat, before the invention of electricity is considered a more practical thermostatic heat therapy tools, and for the majority of medical practitioners to adopt. After all, constant temperature is difficult to do, moxibustion and direct moxibustion, in general, direct moxibustion moxibustion feeling and efficacy is better than hanging moxibustion, but the operation is more difficult, a little careless easy to burn. The hot salt compress and cooked egg compress used in folk families are similar to direct moxibustion, and the safety is better. Nowadays, electrical products provide us with more convenient and practical heat therapy, which will gradually replace moxibustion.