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How to Do Self-moxibustion Health Care at Home
Moxibustion: Moxibustion in China acupuncture therapy. Ignite wormwood and moxa sticks, which are mainly made of mugwort leaves, and smoke and bake human acupuncture points to achieve a natural therapy of health care treatment. It has the effects of warming yang, invigorating qi, dispelling cold, relieving pain, tonifying deficiency, resolving hard mass, warming channels, removing blood stasis, resolving hard mass and reinforcing middle warmer. Through simple tools, you can carry out moxibustion health care at home.

Tools/raw materials:

Ai He

Wormwood cigar

Methods/steps

1. Prepare the moxa stick box and moxa sticks.

Step 2 light the moxa stick

3. Put the moxa stick into the column net in the middle of the moxa box.

4. Cover the box and you can do moxibustion.

5. Just put the moxa stick box on the corresponding acupoints. For example, those with palace cold can be placed on the navel, and those with cough can be placed on the acupoints of the lung meridian and so on. Please refer to the acupoint map.

6. If you want to increase the heat, you can open the box a little to speed up the burning of the moxa stick.

Matters needing attention

It is not advisable to apply moxibustion on an empty stomach before and after meals.

Drink warm water after moxibustion, and it is not advisable to take a bath immediately. It is not advisable to blow air conditioners and fans directly during moxibustion.