Past life: wormwood
Wormwood is an ancient and magical medicine commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. In China, wormwood is rich in resources and has a long medicinal history, which is closely related to the lives of people in China.
1. distribution: widely distributed all over the country, and distributed in Northeast China, North China, East China, South China, Southwest China, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. Together with qi zhou (now Qichun County, Hubei Province), it is called "Aiai". The biography of mugwort records: "mugwort, produced in Yangshan, has made great contributions to the treatment of moxibustion diseases by using the Dragon Boat Festival."
2. Smell: This plant has a strong fragrance.
3. The best picking time: Dragon Boat Festival.
4. Folk usage:
On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, people put wormwood at home or hang it on doors and windows to "smell the fragrance and avoid filth" and drive away mosquitoes.
② Bathing or fumigation with wormwood boiling water can disinfect and relieve itching.
(3) Folium Artemisiae Argyi is also a good medicinal and edible product, which can be made into recipes such as Folium Artemisiae Argyi tea, Folium Artemisiae Argyi soup, Folium Artemisiae Argyi porridge, and Folium Artemisiae Argyi Ciba, so as to enhance human disease resistance.
5. Nature, taste and efficacy of wormwood:
Wormwood is bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the spleen, liver and kidney. Compendium of Materia Medica records that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic, pure in yang, and has the functions of dredging meridians, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and cold, stopping bleeding, preventing miscarriage, strengthening body resistance and eliminating pathogenic factors.
With the continuous expansion of the medical field, the use of mugwort leaves will be more and more extensive.
This Life: Modern Application of Moxibustion
1. Moxibustion: It is a therapeutic method to ignite moxa cone, so that the generated moxa heat can stimulate acupuncture points or specific parts of the human body, and regulate the disordered physiological and biochemical functions of the human body by stimulating meridian qi, thus achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.
Moxibustion: first, it lasts, and second, it is hot. The key point is to use the lasting stimulation of Ai Ge, and you should stick to it.
2. Therapeutic effect of moxibustion: lasting warming effect and medicinal effect of wormwood.
3. Moxibustion therapy
① moxa stick moxibustion
The most commonly used method in clinic is to ignite the moxa stick, put it on the acupoint or the affected part for fumigation, or add the medicine of warming the heart to moxa wool to make the moxa stick.
② Wheat Moxibustion: Make the moxa stick into a moxa cone the size of a wheat grain, fix it with Collateral Oil, light the incense and let it spontaneously ignite. Moxibustion can reach 2 3 degrees. Suitable for all kinds of pain and unconsciousness.
③ Ginger-separated moxibustion
Cut the ginger into 0.2 0.3 cm thick slices, and then prick several holes with a needle. When applying moxibustion, put ginger slices on the acupoints, put large or medium-sized moxa cones on them, and light them. When the patient has a local burning sensation, lift the ginger slices briefly or change the moxa stick moxibustion again. Generally, moxibustion is 6 9 feet each time, with local redness of the skin and no blistering.
④ Salt-separated moxibustion
Fill the navel with pure and dry salt, and light the moxa cone on the salt. Generally, moxibustion is 6 9 cones each time. Because this method is only used for navel, it is also called Shenque moxibustion.
4. Indications of moxibustion
① Various diseases caused by blood stasis due to wind-cold, meridian obstruction, such as wind-cold-dampness, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain.
② Exogenous wind-cold exterior syndrome, deficiency-cold of middle energizer, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
③ Yang deficiency of spleen and kidney, sudden loss of vitality, such as chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery, enuresis, nocturnal emission, impotence, premature ejaculation, collapse and shock.
(4) Qi deficiency, viscera prolapse, such as gastroptosis, nephroptosis, uterine prolapse, proctoptosis, metrorrhagia, etc.
5. Taboo of moxibustion therapy
① In the case of hunger, satiety, heavy drinking, thirst, sweating, emotional overexcitation and extreme fatigue, moxibustion is not suitable.
② Moxibustion is not suitable for patients with organic heart disease with cardiac insufficiency and schizophrenia.
③ Syndrome of excess heat or fever due to yin deficiency within the scope of traditional Chinese medicine should be specifically identified under the guidance of professional doctors.
Author: Zhang Xiyuan, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine