? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that in the process of children's growth and development, the functions of many viscera and organs are not perfect enough, which is called "naive yin and yang". The zang-fu organs are delicate and the qi is not full. According to this physiological characteristic, physicians of past dynasties put forward many methods of children's health care, and moxibustion is one of them. Moxibustion therapy for children can achieve the purpose of disease prevention and health care.
As the saying goes, medicine has three poisons. When you are sick, you will think of taking medicine and infusion therapy, which is very unfavorable for your child's growth and development. It is best to do more moxibustion therapy in daily life that does not harm the body but can improve the resistance.
Are children suitable for moxibustion?
The answer is: very suitable, especially for some deficiency-cold diseases, especially for children with weak spleen and stomach.
Symptoms of spleen and stomach weakness in children: emaciation or obesity, blue or yellow complexion, salivation or excessive saliva, thick white or yellow tongue coating (yellow is hot), chapped mouth and lips (mostly spleen deficiency and excessive heat), eczema (eczema is rooted in spleen and stomach weakness and damp heat), anorexia or overeating (uncontrolled), abdominal distension or bloating, excessive exhaust or farting. Poor stool texture, such as egg-shaped stool or defecation or separation of water and stool), constipation (including dry stool like a ball, defecation once every few days, normal defecation after dry head, difficulty in defecation, mostly caused by heat and simple spleen deficiency), frequent bedwetting or excessive urination, and children complained of abdominal pain.
? Of course, it should be noted that if the child has damp heat, it is temporarily not suitable for moxibustion.
What effect does moxibustion have on children?
1, tonifying liver and kidney
2, regulate the spleen and stomach
Step 3 strengthen resistance
? In addition, it is clinically found that moxibustion at Dazhui point and body column in children can improve immunity and promote children's growth and development.
? Children's cold moxibustion
Children's cold is a pediatric disease that parents often encounter, and it is also the disease that parents are most worried about in their lives. Children with colds are usually accompanied by high fever, cough, stuffy nose and headache. Many times, taking medicine and injections have no effect, and sometimes it takes six or seven days to get better after infusion. Parents often feel powerless in the face of their children's pain. Moxibustion has a good effect on children's colds, and in many cases it can eliminate cold symptoms in a day or two.
After the child catches a cold, he can help the child warm moxibustion by hanging moxibustion. Only two acupoints are selected, one at Shenque and the other at Dazhui. The circulating warm moxibustion method is adopted, and each warm moxibustion lasts for half an hour to one hour. After a warm moxibustion, a second warm moxibustion can be carried out. Under normal circumstances, after two times of warm moxibustion, children will sweat and have a fever. If the high temperature does not subside, warm moxibustion can be carried out three or four times a day for two to three hours each time.
Tips: Because children are in a critical period of growth and development, antibiotics and other drugs with side effects are generally not recommended after catching a cold. Moxibustion regulates the balance of the body system by opening the meridians and stimulates the child's self-recovery ability, so there are no side effects.
Body column: moxibustion point for children's diseases
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The main indications of Shen Zhu point are: body column, which has the effects of activating yang, regulating qi, expelling wind and reducing fever, clearing away heart fire and calming nerves, and relieving cough.
? It is suitable for dizziness caused by lack of brain power, wheezing caused by lack of middle qi, proctoptosis caused by atmospheric subsidence, low back pain caused by lack of breath in Du meridian, etc. It is also often used as an acupuncture point to strengthen children's health, and is considered to cure children's diseases. Children's viscera are delicate, their functions are not perfect, especially their lungs and spleen are weak. Children are prone to catch cold, fever, cough, asthma, diarrhea and indigestion. Moxibustion at Shen Zhu point has good preventive and therapeutic effects.
? Shen Zhu point is called "Moxibustion Point for Children with All Diseases" in Japanese medical circles. Children have been moxibustion at Shen Zhu point for one month, and most of them have greatly increased their appetite and weight.
? Can be used for preventing and treating infantile dyspepsia, galactorrhea, diarrhea, anorexia, listlessness, insomnia, nocturnal crying, asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough, convulsion, dysplasia, sallow complexion and emaciation. For infants who are critically ill due to diarrhea and indigestion, moxibustion can turn the corner. In addition, body column moxibustion can also prevent and treat colds, and it is a necessary moxibustion point for lobular pneumonia, hilar lymph node tuberculosis, early lung infiltration, pleurisy, asthma and bronchitis.
Moxibustion in children: other matching points
? Neck conditioning:
Mingmen, Fengchi, Dazhui and Shoulder Center
? Shoulder adjustment:
Mingmen, Fengchi, Dazhui and Ashi points
? Waist conditioning:
Mingmen, Shenshu, Yaoyangguan and Seventeen Vertebrae
? Knee conditioning:
Mingmen, Shenque, Upper Knee Eye, Lower Knee Eye
? Stomach conditioning:
Mingmen, Dazhui, Zhongwan and Shenque
? Intestinal conditioning:
Mingmen, Shenque, Guanyuan and Zhongji
? Low temperature regulation:
Dazhui, Xiang Ying and Hegu
? Children's moxibustion operation method
Moxibustion tips:
? Because the baby can't accurately reflect the degree of burns, it is necessary to control the distance and time to avoid the baby being burned, and the baby's skin can be moxibustion until it is red. From now on 1 time every day, 1 time every week or1time every month.
? Generally, moxibustion can be started 3 to 6 months after birth. However, it should also be decided according to the child's specific physique. Those with poor constitution can be moxibustion early and moxibustion more, and those with strong constitution and good nutrition can be moxibustion late and moxibustion less.
Moxibustion time:
For children under 2 years old, moxibustion at each acupoint lasts for about 5 minutes, with warmth as the degree, that is, mild moxibustion is used. For children aged 3-5 years, moxibustion at each point can last for 5- 10 minutes, or moxibustion at Dazhui and trunk for about 1 *** 10 minutes. With the increase of age, the moxibustion time of children can be appropriately extended.