Hello, I'm Dr. Peng, and this week I'm going to talk about moxibustion.

As a treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine, moxibustion has many advantages, such as simple operation, convenient use, cheap and effective, wide indications, small side effects, low medical accident rate, lower knowledge reserve than acupuncture and medicine, short training period and so on. Beginners can sometimes produce magical effects, relieve intractable diseases (there are still many cases), and they can also do moxibustion by themselves (Dont Ask For Help's ailment), so it has become popular in health clubs and friends circles in recent ten years. The industrial chain has quietly become a huge thing.

But it is also its barbaric growth that breeds a series of problems in the dark. Everything has its own laws, but it can't be done. If it is less, it will suffer, and if it is big, it will leak.

Don't wait for an accident to ask for help online.

The reason for writing this article is that an elder in the family chatted in the group and said that his hand had a rash and it was itchy. There are blisters in some places.

I was a little … it's a long story … at least I was an insider …

I have a lot of things to do this year (I have to prepare for several exams), so I don't want to write an article. As a result, I found that Chinese medicine has become a money-making tool without medical qualifications. I still have some blood. Write something.

Let me briefly talk about moxibustion.

Moxibustion, a treatment method, has a long history. Since ancient times, many doctors have used it, also called acupuncture. The earliest method is moxibustion directly on your body-probably the ancients warmed themselves and found that some pains can be relieved after being burned, and then gradually developed. From the aspects of moxibustion method, material selection and moxibustion department. We have summed up a lot of experience.

There are differences between ancient moxibustion and modern moxibustion. In ancient times, direct moxibustion was mostly "scar moxibustion"-scalding, festering, scabbing and leaving scars.

It may have special effects on some diseases, but one is pain, the other is scar, and the third is to consider whether there is alternative therapy. How to choose, the doctor should have a number in mind.

Now it can only be seen and used in relatively poor areas.

What is widely used in modern times is an indirect moxibustion, that is, moxibustion without direct contact with the skin, which is called "mild moxibustion". Moxibustion with moxa sticks or isolation with appliances (moxibustion box, etc.). ), or isolated with items (ginger, garlic, etc.). ). A few people who have contact with the skin pay attention to one degree, that is, when the patient feels burning pain, he quickly picks up the moxa stick and replaces it with a new one. At this time, the moxa stick has not been burned to the end. Take skin redness and fever as the degree, and do not cause skin lesions.

Moxibustion is simple and clear. Use a few moxa sticks for moxibustion whenever you feel uncomfortable. Promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, warming meridians and activating qi and blood circulation can naturally achieve the effects of eliminating local chronic inflammation, relieving pain, mobilizing the body's self-healing ability, eliminating some qi and blood accumulation (cysts and fibroids) and treating some yin-cold diseases.

However, moxibustion is really hard to say. Like other theories of traditional Chinese medicine, it is often difficult to explain clearly with some current theories, and it is generally in a usable stage, but the reasons are not clear.

When I was a graduate student, a moxibustion expert from Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine gave me two lessons. At that time, she asked two questions and no one answered. After working for so many years, she is also wondering.

One is: "Now the hospital departments have smoke exhausters. Is moxibustion smoking useful? " Useful. Why did you take it out? If it doesn't work, what is the role of moxibustion? Heat? "The other is" If the effect is heat, why do you have to use moxibustion? "How about tobacco? Is infrared light ok now? Are other electronic products ok? "

When I did moxibustion for patients over the years, I often recalled these two questions, and later I got the answer. Do moxibustion now, at least billions of industries every year? Who has been here to dig deeper?

Just busy making money.

2. Market chaos: blind propaganda of TCM theory endorsement

With the market, it is natural for people to seek money. What the wealth seeker spreads may not be true and useful, but it must be useful for his sales.

Moxibustion can cure tuberculosis and various cancers, including leukemia, so I ask if you are dissatisfied.

In those years, so many Korean drama protagonists died in vain, all of them came to do moxibustion. Why must there be a blue relationship between life and death?

People with a little medical knowledge wouldn't write such an article, would they? Moxibustion can be effective for many diseases, but it is not just moxibustion that can cure all diseases. Many diseases, it can't help it. Every year, we will see many patients whose symptoms are delayed until the end. How many of them have delayed their illness because of watching such online publicity?

Some diseases can improve the quality of life, some can prolong the life cycle, but some.

If it can't be cured, let Chinese medicine take the blame.

For economic reasons, or when there is no other way, a dead horse is a living horse doctor. You can be sure that there are other ways to cure it. Why bother?

I always advise patients to choose the treatment method with the greatest chance of success and the least harm to the body. For example, I seldom use Chinese medicine such as gentleman, betel nut and pepper. Not if there are intestinal worms. Why? Chinese medicine should be a way of thinking, otherwise it would be good to waste medicine and save medicine.

Is moxibustion soaking water? Detoxification?

Always talking about detoxification, where do people get so much poison?

As mentioned earlier, pathological products of human body, such as external wind, cold and heat, dryness and dampness, fire dryness, internal injury to diet and seven emotions, lead to accumulation, stagnation, phlegm, dampness, insects and siltation, which are all considered as bad pathological products. When did Chinese medicine say "detoxification" theory? Traditional Chinese medicine only uses drugs to treat diseases.

Removing these bad pathological products is the closest to "detoxification".

The "blisters" produced by moxibustion are different from some "blisters" that appear on the body surface after you take medicine orally. Oral drugs will produce some rejection reactions, some of which may exclude pathological products (not absolutely). The blisters of moxibustion are very simple, which is the physical reaction after scalding.

Did you get burned with cigarette butts when you were a child? A small blister appeared after ironing. Moxibustion with appliances is a continuous and gradually rising temperature, and the body is easily burned. One of my elders burned me when he asked me for moxibustion. Then I left a scar.

Blisters do not necessarily leave scars, and many people with good physical recovery ability will naturally absorb and recover. However, for older patients, if blisters are easily subjected to repeated friction and stimulation (such as waist and abdomen), it is easy to leave scars-because most of these blisters are damaged in the dermis. So at this time, you should "insist on continuing moxibustion" or "give up all efforts". What's your mentality? You're fine.

How tired it is to study and how easy it is to tweet. "Anyway, it is impossible to admit mistakes. Only by taking back the pot of Chinese medicine and letting patients continue to do moxibustion and sell moxibustion can we maintain this lifestyle. "

One more thing: it's not that it doesn't work if it's burned, but it's actually equivalent to scar moxibustion, which will also work. But young girls, think about it.

Also, the more important point is whether you can handle the secondary infection that may occur after the skin lesions appear. Skin is our first barrier.

To be honest, I don't recommend continuing moxibustion after blisters appear.

I continued to watch this explosion of 10W+ and found something that made me even more angry-

A lot of words are nonsense, and the knowledge of physiology and pathology is a mess. Even if you look it up online, you won't say these ignorant and ridiculous things. Are these diseases all inflammation of the urinary system? Haha's laughter ...

If it is foolish to say that moxibustion can cure all diseases, the latter one will be broken.

Ignoring the objective condition and letting patients insist on moxibustion itself is a treatment method that violates the "different from person to person" of Chinese medicine!

Diabetic patients, I don't recommend soaking their feet with hot water to make them insist on moxibustion? Contact the above, we must "persist, otherwise all previous efforts will be in vain." Hehe, it is no wonder that so many colleagues in western medicine blame Chinese medicine, and they are all taking the blame for these fake Chinese medicine.

The unique physiological characteristics of diabetic patients determine that moxibustion must be cautious. If you don't pay attention, it will burn easily. If you don't pay attention, it is the situation I mentioned at the beginning. Finally, the owner of the fitness club posted online for help. Should I bear legal responsibility? If you know today, why do you want to know?

Both practitioners and their own health moxibustion hope that everyone can study hard. After all, it is to operate on people and eat the bowl of Chinese medicine.

Finally, I recommend some books to you. You can search yourself. There should be an electronic version online, and it doesn't cost money. Books are cheap, too (modern knowledge is really cheap)

1. "Xie Xiliang Moxibustion", Mr. Xie Xiliang is one of the leading figures in the field of modern Moxibustion. This book discusses the theory and medical cases in detail, including many moxibustion medical cases, especially many serious medical cases (but beginners should not go astray, blindly pursue big moxibustion and emphasize moxibustion). Specific moxibustion points and acupoint selection methods are also introduced in detail, which beginners can learn.

2. The Moxibustion Rope written by Zhou Meisheng and Zhou Meisheng is also one of the great leaders of modern moxibustion. Moxibustion rope is not suitable for beginners of moxibustion, and advanced learning has a certain foundation, emphasizing moxibustion sense (I may say that I say acupuncture sense, and many people will say metaphysics).

3. Annotated version of moxibustion secret biography. The Secret Biography of Moxibustion is a monograph on Moxibustion in Qing Dynasty, which tells the specific moxibustion methods of 70 diseases, and the medical theory is concise and to the point. Moxibustion, with few acupoints, is practical and effective. The original work was written in classical Chinese, and the name of the disease was the name of the ancient disease. The annotated version of Moxibustion will be much easier to read, especially for friends with poor classical Chinese foundation. I recommend this book to friends who specialize in moxibustion, are interested in inheriting and carrying forward moxibustion and have the spirit of research.