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Does moxibustion rely on smoke or heat?
I believe that most friends of moxibustion feel that the smoke smell of moxibustion is too unbearable, especially many friends who have been exposed to moxibustion for the first time have been given up by the smoke smell of moxibustion and never want to moxibustion again. Many people hope to develop smokeless moxa sticks. In recent years, many merchants have introduced various smokeless moxa sticks to meet the needs of consumers. Can smokeless moxa sticks really replace pure moxa sticks to treat diseases and preserve health? Does moxibustion smoke have therapeutic effect? Is the smoke of moxibustion harmful to human body? As the ancient Chinese saying goes, both smoke and fire are moxibustion, so it can be seen that both smoke and fire can be called moxibustion. Moxibustion has been spread to Japan and South Korea for a long time. Japanese doctors have done experiments, which prove that moxa smoke can stimulate human immunity, make people healthy, and stimulate vitality with the qi of nourishing health. Similarly, modern medicine has also proved that moxa smoke has the efficacy of sterilization and disinfection. (Of course, you can't deliberately smoke wormwood, because the lungs of the human body have the function of rejection, and inhaling a lot of wormwood smoke will definitely increase the burden on the lungs. Here is a lot of inhalation).

On the one hand, the principle of moxibustion is to use heat to achieve the effects of warming meridians and dredging collaterals, promoting qi and blood circulation, dispelling cold and removing dampness, on the other hand, it depends on the medicinal properties of wormwood itself. Because wormwood is a rare Chinese medicine that can dredge the twelve meridians, the ancients finally decided to use wormwood as the main raw material of moxibustion after thousands of years of exploration.