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What is the efficacy of moxa stick fumigation?
Moxibustion is a common treatment method in traditional Chinese medicine. When some parts of our body are painful, we can do it ourselves at home. What is moxibustion? Moxibustion is to light it with a moxa stick, put it on an uncomfortable part of the body, more than 5 cm away from the skin, and draw a circle around the painful part. The following small series will introduce some effects of moxibustion to you. So what is the efficacy of moxa stick fumigation? What diseases can Ai Xun treat?

First, the efficacy of wormwood fumigation

1, sterilization

The medicinal smoke produced by steaming mugwort has a strong bactericidal effect, so it can treat diseases such as female genital inflammation, female genital itching, increased leucorrhea and blisters.

2. Analgesic effect

Moxibustion can promote the circulation of blood and lymph in the lower abdomen, thus playing a role in treating lower abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, low back pain and neuralgia.

3. Anti-inflammatory effect

Moxibustion can eliminate swelling of hemorrhoids, dry and exfoliate hemorrhoids and eliminate prostatitis.

4, increase immune function

The steamed moxa stick has the function of increasing white blood cells in human body and accelerating the regeneration of diseased cells.

5. Nutritional function

The moxa stick used for steaming moxa contains eucalyptol, amylase, calcium, vitamins and other ingredients, which can play a role in beauty and nutrition.

6, degreasing and detoxification.

Moxibustion can promote the blood circulation of the lower abdomen and expel the residual toxins in the body, thus playing the role of degreasing. During the treatment, women may suffer from bleeding in the private parts of non-menstrual women or softening of the lower abdomen, which is a normal detoxification reaction.

Step 7 shrink

Female steaming can strengthen the contraction of female private parts and uterus, thus improving the quality of sexual life. However, postpartum women need to start treatment after the dirty blood is completely drained, otherwise it will affect the curative effect.

Second, wormwood fumigation treatment of diseases

Indications: It has a unique therapeutic effect on rhinitis, common cold, cough and asthma, gastritis, vomiting and diarrhea, joint pain, soreness of waist and knees, chills and pains, dizziness and palpitations, insomnia and dreaminess, fatigue and forgetfulness, decreased vision, cold hands and feet, irregular menstruation, infertility due to palace cold, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, and qi stagnation due to kidney deficiency.

2. Moxibustion and moxibustion therapy have a wide range of applications. Moxibustion is to give warm stimulation to the human body through the pure yang heat and drug power of moxa fire, and regulate the balance of yin and yang of viscera through the conduction of meridians and acupoints, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases, preventing diseases and preserving health. The main functions of moxibustion are: dredging channels and activating collaterals, promoting qi and blood circulation, eliminating dampness and cold, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, restoring yang to rescue adverse events, preventing diseases and protecting health.

3. Principle of Moxibustion The mechanism of Moxibustion is that the thermal effect produced by Moxibustion in the burning process is transmitted to the meridian system, which mobilizes the immune function of human body, acts on the diseased parts of human internal organs and limbs, carries out multi-level, multi-functional and multi-modal adjustment, and produces multiple therapeutic effects under the interaction and mutual stimulation. In short, enhance your immunity and achieve the effect of preventing and treating diseases!

4, moxa smoke's role in the smoke contains selenium, which is an anti-cancer component, which can increase human immunity, relieve asthma and relieve cough. Ai Yan has antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and air purifying effects, and can prevent infectious diseases. The methanol extract of the cigarette also has antioxidant and free radical scavenging effects, and can prevent cancer and resist aging. Ai Yan has antifungal effect, and moxa smoke has antibacterial effect on many pathogenic dermatophytes to varying degrees. When wormwood burns, its volatile oil will evaporate with smoke. The volatile oil of Folium Artemisiae Argyi has antibacterial effect on common pathogenic bacteria such as pneumococcus, Staphylococcus albus and Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus A and Streptococcus B, Neisseria, Escherichia coli, typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli, Shigella flexneri, influenza bacilli and Proteus. The higher the concentration of moxa smoke, the greater the lethality of various pathogens.

5, the principle of moxibustion treatment and health care On the one hand, the principle of moxibustion treatment and health care is to use heat to achieve the effects of warming meridians, promoting qi and blood circulation, dispelling cold and removing dampness. On the other hand, it depends on the medicinal properties of wormwood itself. Because wormwood is a rare Chinese medicine that can get through the twelve meridians, the ancients finally decided to use wormwood as the main raw material of moxibustion after thousands of years of exploration.