What is moxibustion in China

What is moxibustion in China

What is moxibustion in China

Acupuncture treatment has a far-reaching influence at home and abroad, in ancient times, acupuncture included acupuncture and moxibustion, but modern people say acupuncture, most of the time only pointer therapy, has rarely included moxibustion. Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine method that uses burning moxa sticks to suspend the body's acupuncture points. It is used for internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, and ENT diseases. Moxibustion was produced in ancient China because its mechanism of action is similar to acupuncture, and it has complementary therapeutic effects with acupuncture, usually acupuncture and moxibustion are used together, so it is called acupuncture.

Moxibustion is a miraculous treatment because it does have a lot of extraordinary features. First of all, the effect of moxibustion is very miraculous. Moxibustion therapy has a wide range of applications, and in ancient China it was the main means of treating diseases. In the words of traditional Chinese medicine, it has the functions of warming yang and replenishing qi, warming meridians and channels, eliminating stasis and dispersing knots, and replenishing and nourishing qi. It can be widely used in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, and ENT diseases, especially for mastitis, prostatitis, frozen shoulder, pelvic inflammatory disease, cervical spondylosis, diabetes, etc.

Secondly, moxibustion has a peculiar health care effect. The use of moxibustion to prevent diseases and prolong life has a history of thousands of years in China. "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" "The wind sweats, moxibustion is happy acupoints", which is a kind of health care moxibustion method. The Zhuangzi records that the sage Confucius "self-moxibustion without disease" also refers to the use of moxibustion for health care.

Since moxibustion is smoked with fire, moxibustion may cause local skin burns if you do not pay attention, on the other hand, some essence and blood will be consumed in the process of moxibustion, so some parts or some people cannot be moxibustion, these are the contraindications of moxibustion. In ancient times, there were many taboos, and although some taboos could be broken, some situations should indeed be contraindicated.