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Many small partners who want to do moxibustion, the first sentence of the consultation will generally ask: Teacher, I am a certain disease, can I moxibustion?
This shows that many people do not know much about their constitution, the efficacy and principle of moxibustion.
The dialectics of disease in Chinese medicine include six dialectics, eight dialectics, Wei qi camp blood dialectics, and internal organ dialectics.
Take the Eight Principles dialectics, which are divided into: yin and yang, superficial, virtual reality, cold and heat.
For less professional people, the most suitable moxibustion is the cold certificate, whether it is real cold, virtual cold, surface cold, cold, will have a good effect.
So, to judge whether you can moxibustion, you grasp a key point:
Whether you are cold or hot, whether you are afraid of cold or heat.
If it is afraid of cold, it is a cold bottom, and the effect of moxibustion is very good. If you are afraid of heat, it is a hot bottom, and it is best to find Chinese medicine to dialectically say it.
This is the simplest way to judge, and some people are afraid of both cold and heat, that is, yin and yang or real cold heating, this situation is a bit complicated, need to supplement diarrhea synchronization, moxibustion with soup medicine, gua sha effect is better.
After knowing your physique, you also need to know the principle of moxibustion, so that you can use it flexibly and treat it symptomatically.
Let's take a look at what kind of effects moxibustion has.
1. Reconcile yin and yang
The partial prosperity and decline of the human body's yin and yang is the root cause of the occurrence and development of the disease, and the use of moxibustion method to replenish the laxative effect, diarrhea has more than enough, make up for its deficiencies, in order to achieve the effect of reconciling yin and yang. However, the laxative method of moxibustion is not easy to master personally, and if it is real heat or yin deficiency, it is best to use prescription drugs and gua sha effects more directly.
2. Warm through the meridians to dispel cold and evil
The Su Qing Sutra Theory yun: "Those who are flesh and blood like warmth and cold, cold weep and do not flow, and warmth disappears." ”
The temperature of the moxa leaf, coupled with the ignition of smoking, can make the heat reach deep into the muscle layer, and the warm qi will carry out blood.
Therefore, the moxibustion method has a good warm meridian, dispersion of cold and dehumidification, conditioning of qi and blood, and declaration of paralysis and pain relief.
3. Activate the blood with qi and dissolve the stasis and scatter the knots
When the air sees heat, it will work, if it sees cold, it will coagulate, and if it is cold, it will be bloody.
Moxibustion is a warm stimulus, which can make the qi and blood coordination, camp guard and smooth, blood veins and benefits and collect qi to invigorate blood, eliminate stasis and scatter knots.
4. Warm and yang to make up for deficiency, replenish the qi
"Lingshu And Functional Chapter" Yun: "Insufficient qi, push it forward." ”
Moxibustion can play a guiding role in the operation of qi and blood.
For example, moxibustion baihui acupuncture has the function of tonifying the qi and lifting the sun.
5. Disease prevention and health care, strengthening the body and longevity
People take Yang Qi as the basis, moxibustion can warm Yang, disease-free self-moxibustion, such as often moxibustion foot sanli, Guan Yuan, large vertebrae and other acupuncture points, can stimulate the body's righteous qi, improve disease resistance, play a role in curing diseases and health care, delay aging, strengthen the body and longevity.
Let's look at the principle of moxibustion
The therapeutic effect of moxibustion is composed of two aspects:
1. The effect caused by the special "medicinal gas" produced by moxibustion;
Second, the warming effect of moxibustion.
After the "medicinal gas" produced during moxibustion is absorbed by the body through the skin of the moxibustion site and with breathing, it can play a broad spectrum of antibacterial, antiviral and anti-microbial effects, that is to say, moxibustion has a direct "exorcism" effect.
In addition, this "medicinal gas" also has the effect of calming the spirit, awakening the spirit, and understanding the trick.
Moxibustion generates heat, and its moderate amount of thermal stimulation is applied to the appropriate acupuncture points to produce the most important therapeutic effect.
Regardless of real disease, fever, weakness, cold disease, in most cases, there will be some acupuncture points with "thermophilic nature" on the surface of the body, and the so-called "thermophilicity" refers to the application of moxibustion here, and the patient will feel comfortable.
The local (moxibustion position) of the body at the time of moxibustion is "warm and comfortable", and in the local area, it plays the role of acupuncture channel, camp guard, and dispelling evil (these effects are mutually causal), and then produces distant radiation and diffusion effects through the meridian system, thus playing a role in adjusting and treating the human body as a whole (including canceling pathological malignant stimuli, inhibiting the body's allergies and overreactions, restoring order to the body's transmission and communication systems, enhancing the body's self-repair ability and ability to absorb and excrete pathological products, etc.).
This is also the mechanism of action of moxibustion so it can cure cold, heat, weakness and real diseases.
When moxibustion treats cold, a large amount of heat energy is introduced to directly counteract and counteract the "cold" in the body, which is one of the mechanisms of action of moxibustion therapy.
Moxibustion for the treatment of fever and yin deficiency internal fever should avoid inappropriate heat introduction.
The so-called "inappropriate heat introduction" mainly has two cases:
First, the moxibustion practitioner is not clear in dialectics, and the acupuncture point has not been sick, so the application of moxibustion is in vain to introduce heat, can not cure the disease, but will promote the disease.
This is also one of the reasons why some people have always opposed the use of moxibustion for fever.
In fact, take the acupuncture point when no, the test is also simple, generally slightly moxibustion on its acupuncture, get the "warm and comfortable" feeling, take the acupuncture correctly, otherwise it is improper to take the acupuncture.
Second, the acupuncture points are taken properly and the amount of moxibustion is improper.
Cold deficiency moxibustion "overheating" some, generally no problem;
However, real fever, the amount of moxibustion must be carefully controlled, the middle disease is already, that is, the harm, especially in the case of "moxibustion fire has not been done" (refers to a small number of cases, due to the internal organs, meridian congestion is particularly severe, the initial moxibustion of the fire can not reach far, concentrated in the moxibustion position, the patient has the phenomenon of feeling uncomfortable), can not be moxibustion, only warm moxibustion.
In ancient times, the main use of skin direct moxibustion, easy to burn the skin.
Modern methods such as warm moxibustion and rotary moxibustion are suitable for most people.
As long as you have a basic cold and heat judgment of your constitution, you know that it is not suitable for moxibustion.