Everyone likes moxibustion for their own health, so they want to buy it when choosing products, but now there are so many brands of moxa sticks on the market that everyone will buy them blindly when they get tuberculosis, and they don't know how to distinguish the quality of moxa sticks.
Today, I'm going to tell you how to choose from many brands of moxa sticks.
Several conditions of high-quality moxa sticks;
First of all, you have to confirm whether you have a medical device registration certificate and a production license. Most moxa sticks on the market are unlicensed. Please keep your eyes open.
Looking at the packaging, inferior moxa sticks are generally packed in glass bags, which have poor sealing and are easy to get wet. A good moxa stick is packed in an independent aluminum foil bag, which has good sealing performance, is not easy to get wet and has a long shelf life.
Smokeless moxa sticks are elegant and have no smoke. They really retain the essence of mugwort leaves and can retain their efficacy.
No matter whether the combustion is extinguished or not, the high-quality smokeless moxa stick has strong firepower, is not easy to extinguish and has strong permeability, and of course the effect is better. Inferior moxa sticks are not concentrated enough in firepower and penetration, and the effect is definitely not so good.
A good smokeless moxa stick should be gray after burning and not easy to fall off. Inferior smokeless moxa sticks will fall off in large pieces.
In addition, the famous manufacturers of smoked mugwort should be mugwort in Hubei and Nanyang mugwort, and the famous manufacturer of smokeless mugwort is Huashen Company in Chengdu, Sichuan. In addition to Huashen Company, Sichuan Aiyi ranks first in fame.
There are many arguments about moxibustion, whether it is fire-free moxibustion or smokeless moxibustion, because these arguments have caused many people to have doubts when buying moxa sticks. It is said that smokeless moxa sticks are carbonized, and the effect is not as good as smoked moxa sticks. Is that so?
My point of view: In fact, whether there is smoke or not, it can achieve the function of warming meridians and dispelling cold and strengthening the body. So if you like the smell of moxa sticks, choose smoked moxa sticks. If you think that moxa sticks are smoky, choose smokeless moxa sticks. It depends more on personal preference.
Understand the following four points, and you will have an accurate judgment.
1, generation process
Production technology of smoked moxa sticks;
Simple formula: mugwort leaves → moxa wool → moxa sticks.
Generally speaking, fresh and full mugwort leaves produced by Yangshan (especially mugwort leaves produced in Qichun, Hubei Province) are collected before the Dragon Boat Festival every year, dried and mashed, and thick stems and silt are screened off, leaving yellowish clean and soft plant fiber-moxa, and then the mugwort is rolled into strips-moxa sticks. Because its shape is purely a physical change, it retains the characteristics of herbs, so there is smoke when burning, which is called smoked moxa sticks. However, the finer the fiber is, the smaller the smoke is, the thicker the stem is, and the bigger the smoke is. (How to choose high-quality moxa has been mentioned in the previous section)
Production technology of smokeless moxa sticks;
Simple formula: Folium Artemisiae Argyi → Folium Artemisiae Argyi → high temperature carbonization and crushing → charcoal powder → smokeless moxa stick.
To put it simply, compared with smoked moxa sticks, the process of smokeless moxa sticks has two more steps, that is, the step of turning moxa leaves into charcoal powder. Sealing and carbonizing the moxa sticks, processing into carbon powder, and pressing the carbonized carbon powder into moxa sticks. So there is little or no smoke when burning, so it is called smokeless moxa stick.
Step 2: Efficacy
It is used to warm meridians and dispel cold, and it is the same when you point moxa sticks and moxibustion.
If amenorrhea is treated, it is best to use smoked moxa sticks, and if bleeding symptoms are treated, it is best to use smokeless moxa sticks. Because charcoal can be made into smokeless moxa sticks, which can stop bleeding. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has obvious effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and charcoal can be used to stop bleeding in gynecology.
See pathology: Patients with asthma and rhinitis are generally sensitive to moxa smoke, so it is not appropriate to use smoked moxa sticks. In this case, using smokeless moxa sticks is the best choice.
It also depends on the place of use: for example, some acupoints near the face and nostrils, where smoking moxa sticks will stimulate respiratory organs such as the nose, and smokeless moxa sticks in these places will be much better than smoking moxa sticks.
3. Firepower
Smoked moxa sticks burn quickly and have moderate firepower. Smokeless moxa sticks burn for a long time, have strong firepower and are not easy to extinguish.
Step 4 smoke
Smoked moxa sticks will produce more smoke than smokeless moxa sticks. moxa smoke is also a kind of medicinal gas, which is non-toxic.
Smokeless moxa sticks are not really smokeless, but much less than those with cigarettes, so they are considered smokeless moxa sticks.