1. Selection of moxa sticks
Inferior moxa sticks are harmful to meridians, which is the common sense of Chinese medicine. Even adults should be careful when choosing moxa sticks. When our moxa sticks cooperate with hospitals in Shenzhen, every moxa stick has to be tested and verified by a doctor of medicine, and the process is very strict, which reflects the importance of moxa sticks. Especially for children, if the meridians are injured, there will really be various "blockages" in the future.
It is no exaggeration to say that the quality of moxa sticks on the market now is very unreliable. You must go to a regular place to buy them, and you can't be greedy and cheap. If you don't believe me, you can go to the health center and go to the store around 10. You may not find a moxa stick that they are willing to sell to you.
2. How many acupoints are there?
A very important step of moxibustion is "matching acupoints", that is, after the completion of "syndrome differentiation", according to the child's symptoms, find specific acupoints for moxibustion treatment, which is a bit like "the right medicine" that we often hear. However, unlike adults, the number of acupuncture points matched by children's moxibustion is obviously less than that of adults, and they are basically some common big acupuncture points. In the view of Chinese medicine, acupoint moxibustion in children is "more important than essence", but the therapeutic effect of moxibustion is not good.
Under special circumstances, there may be many acupoints that children need moxibustion treatment. At this time, the doctor will also order: choose 2-3 acupoints for moxibustion treatment each time, and acupoint moxibustion can be done 2-3 times a day. Under normal circumstances, children should not do moxibustion for more than 30 minutes at a time.
3. Moxibustion time
After all, children are children's yang, and the smoothness of meridians is better than that of adults, so the time for moxibustion for children should not be too long, just 5- 10 minutes for one acupoint, and the cumulative moxibustion time for multiple acupoints should not exceed 30 minutes (multiple acupoints are allowed to be moxibustion at the same time).
How many times you need moxibustion every day depends entirely on your child's performance. For example, moxibustion is used to treat colds 2-3 times a day. If the child's symptoms are obviously relieved, it can be once a day or once every two days. There is no uniform standard, and it needs to be judged according to the situation of the moxibustion victim.
4. moxibustion environment
Whether adults or children are doing moxibustion, they usually ignore the environmental factors in the process of moxibustion, which leads to poor moxibustion effect, but it will be counterproductive. So what are the requirements of moxibustion environment?
The environment of moxibustion needs proper air circulation, but the wind can't be too strong. You can't blow directly like a fan or an air conditioner. Before moxibustion, you can raise the air conditioning temperature and set the mode to sleep or mute mode. Here is the gap opened by acupoints to prevent the common cold from invading the human body.
In addition to the common cold, it is also necessary to prevent the invasion of moisture, so the humidity of moxibustion environment must not be too high, and try to keep it dry. Don't let the child touch anything wet within 1 hour after moxibustion.
5. Skin sensitivity
Children's skin is delicate, but their perception of heat is weak, so parents must feel the temperature with their hands when applying moxibustion, and don't just let children judge whether the moxibustion temperature is too hot. We can semi-close the tiger's mouth around the acupuncture points that need moxibustion and hang moxa sticks on them, so that we can feel whether the temperature is too high at any time when moxibustion is carried out.
Even if children do moxibustion, they usually use warm moxibustion, but try not to use moxibustion to treat children's faces, so as not to leave irreparable scars. Even if you moxibustion other parts, you should prevent your child from suddenly "fidgeting" and avoid burns.
6. Don't smoke too much moxa smoke.
Because moxa smoke is produced by burning wormwood, burning pure wormwood without additives will not produce toxic toxins, but it will still produce some particles. Although the impact of these particles on adults is quite limited, children with underdeveloped lungs should pay attention to the following points, which is why we require smooth air during moxibustion.
Therefore, don't smoke moxa sticks for children during moxibustion. Although there is no wind in moxibustion environment, a certain degree of air circulation is necessary. We can blow the fan in the opposite direction to the window and act as a "smoking machine", so that the number of moxa smoke will be reduced by more than half.
If the six points mentioned above can be well solved, then you don't have to worry too much when you give your child moxibustion. Finally, a little reminder: although you can't touch wet and cold things immediately after moxibustion, you can still drink hot water, and it is best to drink a cup of hot water after moxibustion, because moxibustion generally leads to more children.