Local stimulation
Moxibustion is a therapeutic method to prevent and treat diseases by stimulating moxa fire in basic specific parts of human body, and its mechanism is first related to the warm stimulation of local fire. It is this warm stimulation that causes local skin congestion and telangiectasia, enhances local blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, relieves and eliminates smooth muscle spasm, strengthens local skin tissue metabolism, and promotes the dissipation and absorption of pathological products such as inflammation, adhesion, exudate and hematoma. It can also cause the diffusion of inhibitory substances in cerebral cortex, reduce the excitability of nervous system, and play a sedative and analgesic role; At the same time, heating can also promote the absorption of drugs.
(B) the role of meridian regulation
Meridian theory is an important content of traditional Chinese medicine and the theoretical basis of moxibustion. People are a whole, and the internal organs and limbs are coordinated with each other. This harmonious relationship is mainly achieved through the adjustment of meridians. Modern research shows that meridians and acupoints have three characteristics:
1. Meridian acupoints are externally sensitive to drugs, that is, some acupoints selected by the same moxibustion method are obviously different from ordinary body surface acupoints.
2. Meridians and acupoints amplify the effects of drugs. Meridian is not a simple body surface approach, but a multi-level, multi-functional and multi-morphological regulation system. Moxibustion is applied to acupoints, which affects their multi-level physiological functions. In this cycle induction process, they produce the results of mutual excitation, mutual coordination and mutual superposition, thus producing physiological amplification effect.
3. Meridian acupoints have the function of storing drugs in drug storage acupoints, and the physical and chemical effects of drugs stay at acupoints for a long time or are released to the whole body, which has an overall adjustment and cure effect on diseases.
(C) the role of regulating immune function
Many experiments have confirmed that moxibustion can enhance immune function. Many therapeutic effects of moxibustion are also realized by regulating human immune function, which has the characteristics of two-way regulation, that is, the low one can increase and the high one can decrease, and this regulation is more obvious in pathological state.
(d) pharmacological effects of the drug itself.
Although the use of moxibustion is not as rich as that of internal medicine, we can also see the dialectical treatment of moxibustion from the clinical application of various moxibustion and Taiyi and Lei Huo acupuncture. What is particularly worth mentioning is the role of moxa sticks, the main raw material of moxibustion. In Materia Medica in Qing Dynasty, Wu said: "Folium Artemisiae Argyi is bitter and bitter, warm in nature, ripe and hot, and pure in yang qi, which can counteract yang qi, dredge the twelve meridians, take three yin, regulate qi and blood, dispel cold and dampness, warm uterus, stop bleeding, warm middle warmer, relieve depression, regulate menstruation and prevent miscarriage, ................................................................
(5) Comprehensive function
The effect of moxibustion on human body is mainly a comprehensive effect, which is the overall therapeutic effect of various factors influencing each other, complementing each other and exerting together.
First of all, the treatment of moxibustion is comprehensive. For example, if winter diseases are treated in summer, drugs such as white mustard seed are applied to Zhongshan, Shu Fei and Gaojia points to treat asthma, and aconite cake moxibustion at Shenshu points is used to resist aging. It includes local stimulation (local suppurative moxibustion, separated moxibustion), meridian points (specially selected points) and drugs, which are organically related.
Second, the role of treatment is comprehensive. The stimulation of moxibustion heat can regulate local qi and blood, and the stimulation of moxa fire combined with drugs will inevitably increase the curative effect of drugs. Aromatic drugs are particularly easy to be absorbed in a warm environment. When moxibustion is applied to acupoints, it first stimulates the acupoints themselves, stimulates meridian qi, mobilizes the functions of meridians, and gives full play to the overall functions of promoting qi and blood circulation and harmonizing yin and yang.
Third, people's responsiveness and therapeutic effect are comprehensive. Treatment (Moxibustion)-External factors can only act through internal factors (human reactivity). The researchers found that the same moxibustion therapy has different sensory transmission and different curative effects for patients with the same disease. The reason is that people have different reflexes. Under the guidance of the overall concept of traditional Chinese medicine and the idea of syndrome differentiation and treatment, all the above factors can be reasonably selected and flexibly used in clinical practice, thus giving full play to the greatest effect of moxibustion. Moxibustion has a peculiar health care function. For thousands of years, moxibustion has been used to prevent diseases and prolong life in China. Huangdi Neijing "Sweating in strong wind, moxibustion means loving points", which is a kind of health moxibustion. The anti-cancer research of moxibustion made by Japanese people such as Suto Zuo also shows that moxibustion can activate the potential anti-cancer effect in skin tissue and play a role in treating cancer. Moxibustion therapy can strengthen the body, prevent and treat diseases, and has a history of thousands of years in China. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people began to widely use moxibustion. For example, there is a record in Zhuangzi that the Yue people smoked it with moxa, and there is also a record in Mencius that it takes three years to get sick for seven years. It is more common in medical works of past dynasties. Moxibustion can stimulate and improve the body's immune function and enhance the body's disease resistance. This paper introduces several commonly used self-care moxibustion methods, which are quick to take effect, convenient to operate and relatively free from drug harm. Readers might as well give it a try.
1 Moxibustion has a long history.
People in ancient times knew that simmering the affected area with the warmth of fire could alleviate the pain, which was the early embryonic form of moxibustion. By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, moxibustion technology had become very popular. "Mencius Li Lou" records: "I want to get Wang Yin sick for seven years and love for three years." "Huangdi Neijing Lingshu" says that "acupuncture is not what it does, but moxibustion is appropriate". It can be seen that moxibustion technology has long been valued by our people. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen highly affirmed the role of moxibustion in his Compendium of Materia Medica, saying that "moxibustion can dredge meridians and cure all diseases and evils, and those who indulge in it are called Shou Kang. Its work is also great. "
2. Moxibustion can dispel evil spirits.
During moxibustion conditioning, the heat generated by moxibustion can make the local body surface temperature reach 65438 030℃, and the intradermal temperature can also reach about 56℃. This kind of warm stimulation directly or indirectly acts on the meridian points of human body, which can achieve the effects of warming meridians and dispelling cold, promoting qi and blood circulation, rising yang and relieving depression, and returning yang to dissipate stagnation; It can also induce heat with heat, thus playing the role of detoxification and heat release. It can be used to improve various deficiency-cold syndrome, qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome, qi deficiency and subsidence syndrome, yang deficiency syndrome and heat-toxin syndrome.
3. Moxibustion can keep fit.
Moxibustion can dredge qi and blood, restore human function, and play a significant role in daily disease prevention and maintenance. For example, moxibustion at Zusanli and Zhongyu can fill the stomach, nourish the qi and blood of the five internal organs and make people healthy; Moxibustion on Guanyuan and Qihai is helpful for storing essence and blood, making people full of yang, essence and blood, and evil spirits are difficult to commit, thus achieving the purpose of health care. In addition, the faint aroma of wormwood has a good analgesic effect. It can quickly relieve gastrointestinal spasm pain, female dysmenorrhea and other symptoms.
In addition, moxibustion has quite a number of health care functions.