Huangdi Neijing pointed out that the qi and blood of human viscera will change with the solar terms, and the yang will rise, float, sink and fall rhythmically. Therefore, health care should conform to the weather. Choosing the acupoints that have the greatest influence on the function of human viscera in each season, warming and ironing, and stimulating the qi of meridians conform to the laws of nature, and can achieve better effects of consolidating Yang and helping healthy qi.

Chinese medicine believes that yang should be raised in spring. Qihai is the source of vitality. Qi-sea moxibustion has the effects of warming and invigorating qi, strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the constitution, and can warm and ventilate the whole body.

After a cold winter, the human body is often deficient in yang, and patients with lumbar spinal stenosis are often due to exogenous cold and dampness, which leads to stagnation of qi and blood in meridians and collaterals, resulting in low back and leg pain. This kind of cold and dampness patients belong to yang deficiency, that is, yang deficiency, which can not warm and tonify the whole body. It is characterized by being afraid of cold and liking heat. When it is cold, the symptoms of low back and leg pain are more serious. On the contrary, in the case of hot compress, the waist and legs are more comfortable.

Therefore, patients with lumbar spinal stenosis are more suitable for moxibustion in spring to nourish yang and dispel cold and dampness. In addition, moxa belongs to pure yang. Moxibustion can warm kidney and yang, warm channels and dispel cold, dredge channels and collaterals, promote blood circulation and remove arthralgia, prevent diseases and protect health.

Let's see where the Qihai point is.

Qihai point belongs to Ren meridian, located in the midline of abdomen, below navel 1.5 inch, that is, just below navel is two fingers wide.

How to moxibustion?

Physical moxibustion can be used. Today, I will introduce pepper moxibustion and ginger moxibustion to you.

Clinically, many Chinese medicine hospitals carry out physical moxibustion, which has the functions of nourishing tendons and veins, eliminating cold and dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting circulation of qi and blood, warming meridians and dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and relieving swelling and resolving hard mass, and can obviously relieve symptoms such as neck and lumbar pain, headache, dizziness and joint pain of limbs. Especially for lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar disc herniation, arthritis, cervical spondylosis and so on, the treatment effect is obvious.

In addition, this kind of partitioned moxibustion has mild firepower and dual functions of moxibustion and medicine, which strengthens the therapeutic effect of single moxibustion or single medicine, and can buffer the temperature change after moxibustion, which is more acceptable.

Let's see how moxibustion works.

Let Jiang help.

Ginger is pungent, slightly warm, and enters the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming the lungs, relieving cough, and detoxicating.

You can choose fresh old ginger, cut a piece of ginger with a thickness of about 5 mm, punch a few holes in it, then put it on Qihai point, and then light moxa sticks to moxibustion against ginger slices, or you can put moxa sticks on ginger slices and light moxibustion.

Let pepper help.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent and warm, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the effects of dispelling cold, expelling wind and dispelling cold, eliminating dampness and promoting blood circulation.

The patient's friend can put a proper amount of pepper on Qihai point and hold the lighted moxa stick to moxibustion at the point.

Moxibustion time

Patients with lumbar spinal stenosis can have moxibustion 1~2 times a day during the acute attack, that is, when the back and leg pain is severe. If they have enough time, they can also have moxibustion for three times. During the remission period, you can also moxibustion the sea once every 2 or 3 days to achieve the purpose of consolidating the effect and preserving health.

Although moxibustion at Qihai point is good, it is not the only point that can be moxibustion. If you have the energy, you can also moxibustion the large intestine meridian, Yao Yan and Ashi points. It can also help relieve the low back and leg pain caused by lumbar spinal stenosis.