Tranquilizing mind, helping sleep, relieving stress, expelling wind and cold, strengthening body resistance, warming channels and dredging collaterals, regulating spleen and stomach, promoting blood circulation and qi circulation, restoring yang and resolving hard mass, preventing diseases and protecting health, and prolonging life. Generally speaking, moxibustion can help people warm meridians, replenish vitality and harmonize qi and blood. If combined with scraping, cupping and massage, it can dredge meridians, relieve stress, relax nerves and relieve fatigue.
There are many kinds of wine, and the taste and efficacy are similar. Generally speaking, wine is warm and pungent, and those who are warm can dispel cold and dredge, while those who are pungent can dredge, so wine can dredge meridians, promote qi and blood circulation, warm yang and dispel cold, soothe the liver and relieve depression, and speak freely; Wine is the essence of grain brewing, so it can nourish the stomach. In addition, wine can kill insects and drive away evil spirits. The combination of wine and medicine is a great progress in drinking for health. There are three main pharmacological effects of wine.
(1) wine can be used as medicine. The ancients said that "wine is the best medicine". Wine can make the efficacy of drugs from the outside to the inside, so as to better play the role of drugs for regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, and can replenish deficiency without stagnation.
② Wine contributes to the precipitation of effective components of drugs. Wine is a good organic solvent, and many components of traditional Chinese medicine are easily soluble in alcohol. Alcohol also has good permeability, easy to enter the tissues and cells of medicinal materials, plays a role in dissolution, promotes replacement and diffusion, and is conducive to improving the precipitation speed and effect.
③ Wine also has antiseptic effect. Ordinary medicinal liquor can be preserved for months or even years without deterioration, which brings great convenience to drinkers.
From the above, we can see the various functions of wine and moxa sticks, and soaking moxa sticks in white wine is the combination of the two.