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The role and taboo of moxibustion Why can't moxibustion be done every day?
1 Efficacy and contraindications of moxibustion: Warming tendons and dredging collaterals.

Moxibustion mainly focuses on Folium Artemisiae Argyi, which is warm in nature, and has certain functions of warming meridians and dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, and promoting qi circulation and dredging collaterals. Igniting fumigation moxibustion with Folium Artemisiae Argyi can make the heat reach the muscular layer, combine the efficacy of Folium Artemisiae Argyi with the heat, and play a good role in warming tendons, dredging collaterals and eliminating cold pathogens.

Promoting qi and blood circulation

During moxibustion, the gas can be heated and condensed when it is cold. Moxibustion generally adopts warm stimulation, which can coordinate qi and blood and maintain the harmony between camp and health. Therefore, moxibustion can play a certain role in promoting qi and blood circulation, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass, which is beneficial to human health.

It is forbidden to know that moxibustion is to moxibustion the skin of the body with fire, and it should not be too close to the skin when moxibustion, which will cause local skin burns; Secondly, there are many tendons and acupoints in the human body, and some important parts cannot be moxibustion, such as joints, lean muscles, lower abdomen and some key parts, otherwise it will easily lead to burns and endanger human health.

2 Why can't moxibustion be carried out normally every day? Moxibustion, as a Chinese medicine health care method, can be carried out every day, but it needs to be judged according to everyone's physical condition.

Some patients may feel unwell if they can't moxibustion regularly, because moxibustion itself is a chronic physical therapy process, which is slow to adjust, so it is best not to moxibustion every day when the body can't eat.

How often do you moxibustion depends on the actual situation.

How often do you moxibustion depends on the specific diseases to be treated, and whether the patient's physique is suitable for moxibustion should be considered from all aspects. General moxibustion therapy is not suitable for patients with dry stool and flushed face.

Patients with serious illness who are suitable for moxibustion can do moxibustion once a day, and patients with mild illness or stable illness can do it about once a week 1-3 times.

4 The Best Time for Moxibustion to Warm the Palace Moxibustion itself has certain functions of dispelling cold, helping Yang Qi and expelling palace cold, and is mainly used to treat dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, infertility and other diseases caused by palace cold.

Generally, women with dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation can start moxibustion treatment 3-5 days before menstruation, and choose Sanyinjiao, Qihai, Guanyuan and other acupoints, and choose 1-2 acupoints at a time. Moxibustion at each acupoint lasts 15-20 minutes until 2 days before menstruation, which has a certain effect of dredging collaterals and relieving pain.

For infertile women, you can choose the above acupoints, 2 acupoints at a time, each acupoint 15-20 minutes, 2-3 times a week, to improve the intrauterine environment, improve the quality of eggs and increase the pregnancy rate.