As early as the early Qing Dynasty, it was recorded in Zhang Lu's Zhang Yitong that white mustard seed was used to prevent the recurrence of asthma in summer.
Dog days moxibustion is the most distinctive dog days health care therapy in traditional Chinese medicine, which is similar to modern preventive medicine. The specific way is to use the highest dog days in Yang Qi in a year, and stick Chinese medicine on the corresponding acupoints according to the diseases to be prevented, so as to achieve the effect of moxibustion treatment.
Dog days moxibustion is the most characteristic dog days health care therapy in China traditional medicine.
There are strict regulations on the time of dog days moxibustion, that is, the first, middle and last three days. "Sanfu" refers to three lunar holidays. According to ancient medical books, Fu Ri must belong to Geng, and Geng belongs to gold, which matches the lungs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold comes and summer goes, and the time sequence changes, which has a lot to do with the human body. Neijing suggested that "nourishing yang in spring and summer" can prevent the occurrence of winter diseases. Asthma, allergic rhinitis and people who are weak and easy to catch a cold all belong to diseases of lung meridian.
Dog-day moxibustion is to use the hot climate in dog days to apply drugs that are pungent, warm, phlegm-resolving, collateral-dredging and asthma-relieving, which can improve the curative effect of drugs, warm yang and qi, eliminate cold pathogens, make lung qi rise and fall normally, warm spleen and kidney, enhance the body's disease resistance and prevent these diseases.
Action principle of dog days moxibustion
Taking advantage of the hot climate in dog days, the application of drugs that warm the heart, remove phlegm, dredge channels and relieve asthma can improve the curative effect of drugs, warm yang and replenish qi, eliminate potential cold pathogens, make lung qi rise and fall normally, warm spleen and kidney, enhance the body's disease resistance and prevent these diseases. Asthma and allergic rhinitis are refractory diseases at present, with a short course of several years and a long course of several decades, which are easy to recur and easily induced when vital qi is insufficient. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that "evil combination leads to qi deficiency". Therefore, patients should be patient and insist on treatment. The experience of natural moxibustion in various places believes that long-term and repeated use of drugs has high curative effect and good effect, and it needs to be used for many years.
Taking advantage of the hot climate in dog days, the curative effect of drugs can be improved by applying drugs with pungent warming, expectorant, dredging collaterals and channels.
Mechanism of natural moxibustion therapy
Stimulation of length on local tissues: Most of the drugs used in moxibustion have strong irritation, which can make skin blister, dilate local blood vessels, promote blood circulation and improve the nutrition of surrounding tissues, thus playing the role of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diminishing inflammation and swelling, and even foaming and purulent, increasing exudate, which can play the role of diminishing inflammation and swelling.
2. Regulating function of meridians and acupoints: According to the related theory of viscera and meridians in traditional Chinese medicine, acupoints are closely related to viscera through meridians, which can not only reflect the physiological or pathological functions of viscera and organs, but also be an effective stimulation point for treating five zang-organs diseases. Natural moxibustion therapy is to stimulate and act on the skin corresponding to acupoints on the body surface. Through the conduction and adjustment of meridians, it can correct the deficiency or decline of zang-fu organs and yin-yang, improve the circulation of qi and blood in meridians, and have a good treatment and adjustment effect on the physiological function and pathological state of the five zang-organs, so as to make them tend to balance and achieve the purpose of eliminating diseases.
Natural moxibustion therapy is to stimulate and act on the skin corresponding to acupoints on the body surface, and correct the deficiency or excess of viscera and yin and yang through the conduction and adjustment of meridians.
3. Pharmacological function of the drug itself: The drug of Tianjiu penetrates through the skin of specific acupoints, and its effective components directly reach the diseased part through blood circulation, thus exerting its pharmacological function. More importantly, while the drugs are absorbed, conducted and utilized through the meridian points, the meridian points have a strong reaction to the drug stimulation, amplifying the drug effect, and its curative effect is the result of the interaction between the meridian points and the drugs, which stimulate, cooperate and overlap each other.
4. Neuroregulation: Moxibustion mainly activates various nerve endings on the skin of the action site through drugs, thus improving the functional activities of tissues and organs and achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.
5. Immune function: stimulate the regulatory function of the body through nerve reflex, thus regulating and enhancing the immune function of the human body.
Indications of dog moxibustion
Dog days moxibustion is to use the principle of "treating winter diseases in summer" to treat diseases that are easy to occur in winter in summer, so as to prevent and reduce the onset of winter diseases.
Dog days moxibustion is a widely acclaimed traditional Chinese medicine therapy, but it can't cure all diseases. Mainly suitable for two kinds of diseases: one is allergic diseases, such as asthma, recurrent respiratory infections (pharyngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia and so on. ), chronic bronchitis in the elderly and colds that children are prone to in winter; One kind is diseases related to deficiency-cold such as stomachache, colitis, joint pain, headache due to deficiency-cold and lumbago due to kidney deficiency.
Although moxibustion therapy has a good effect in dog days, some of the traditional Chinese medicines used are toxic and some have a strong stimulating effect on the skin. Therefore, pregnant women, the elderly, children under 2 years old (delicate skin is easy to cause infection) and patients with skin allergies should use it with caution or prohibit it.
Conclusion: The above is what Sanjiu Yangshengtang summarized for you. Through the above introduction, you know what dog days moxibustion is. Do you know the principle and function of dog moxibustion? Dog days moxibustion has a good health preserving effect.