Collection time of mugwort leaves: it is best to collect mugwort leaves and mugwort flowers on the Dragon Boat Festival every year, when they are lush, seedless and their leaves are not suitable for breaking.
1. Four Moxibustion Methods of Tibetan Medicine
Four moxibustion methods: Tibetan medicine has four moxibustion methods: boiling method, burning method, drying method and smoking method.
Cooking method: When moxibustion, burn the affected area into spots.
Cauterization: When moxibustion is applied, tiny blisters are cauterized in the affected area.
Baking method: a method of burning red skin without hurting the skin when moxibustion is applied.
Fumigation: during moxibustion, there is a slight burning sensation, resulting in shock and pain.
2. Tibetan fire moxibustion acupoints
(1) Tibetan fire moxibustion acupoints: Fire moxibustion acupoints are generally divided into acupoints determined by pain and acupoints fixed by Tibetan medicine theory.
(2) Acupoints defined as pain: It means that when the acupuncturist presses the painful part with his fingers, the patient feels pain and comfort, and the pulse condition is flickering and the vein is prominent, and moxibustion is applied here where the disease is located.
(3) Fixed acupoints: According to the theory of Tibetan medicine, there are more than 100 acupoints concentrated in specific acupoints of internal organs.
3. The efficacy of Tibetan fire moxibustion
It has the effects of sealing blood vessels, relieving pain, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, reducing swelling, eliminating visceral leakage, drying yellow water, helping stomach fire, and refreshing.
Tibetan doctors believe that diseases that cannot be effectively treated by other therapies for a long time can be treated with fire moxibustion. At the same time, Tibetan fire moxibustion can enhance physical fitness and improve immunity, which is a characteristic therapy for prevention and health preservation.