Moxibustion with mugwort leaves is warm. Moxibustion can make the hot air and toxins in the body excrete, help the human body to dispel cold and clear heat, play a two-way regulating role in the body, and have certain detoxification and heat-clearing effects.
The five internal organs in the human body are connected and each plays an important role. If qi and blood are insufficient or meridians are blocked, the body will be affected. Moxibustion can reconcile qi and blood, dredge meridians and collaterals, and has a certain effect of promoting qi circulation and dredging collaterals.
Contraindications Moxibustion has certain contraindications. Do not directly moxibustion exposed parts to prevent scarring and affect the appearance; Secondly, moxibustion should not be applied to areas with thin skin and few muscles and muscle nodules, the lumbosacral part and lower abdomen of pregnant women, nipples, genitals and testicles of men and women; In addition, do not directly moxibustion joints, large blood vessels, heart parts, and do not moxibustion eyes belonging to the face.
Tip: Women should pay attention to extreme fatigue, hunger, satiety, drunkenness, sweating, emotional instability or avoiding moxibustion during menstrual period; Do not use moxibustion during certain infectious diseases, high fever, coma and convulsion, or when the body is extremely tired and emaciated; People without self-control ability, such as mental patients, should not be moxibustion.
Whether smoke moxibustion is good or smokeless moxibustion is good depends on personal choice.
Moxibustion is generally divided into smoke moxibustion and smokeless moxibustion. Among them, smoke moxibustion mainly promotes blood circulation, while smokeless moxibustion stops bleeding. You can choose according to your own needs in life.
We can't unilaterally judge which of these two kinds of moxibustion is better, except activating blood and stopping bleeding. In fact, the functions of the two are not much different.
3 Can children have moxibustion? Moxibustion, as a common method of TCM health preservation in life, does not strictly indicate that children can't moxibustion, so children can also moxibustion appropriately, which has a certain effect of dredging meridians and relieving fatigue.
But children should pay attention to long-term moxibustion, because children's skin is sensitive and delicate, and moxibustion is easy to damage the skin.
4 Where can children moxibustion Zusanli point and Dazhui point?
Proper moxibustion for children in life has a certain health care effect. Moxibustion can moxibustion Zusanli point, which is located three inches below children's knees, and can help improve children's spleen and stomach function.
Secondly, children can also moxibustion Dazhui point, which is located in the depression under the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra in children. Proper moxibustion can effectively improve the disease resistance of upper energizer in children.