What is mud moxibustion?
Mud moxibustion is a way of health care, and it is a method to treat and prevent diseases by burning mud-scalding drugs in specific parts of human body. Generally speaking, mud moxibustion has the functions of diminishing inflammation, resisting bacteria, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and expelling wind and removing dampness.
What is the role of mud moxibustion?
Mud moxibustion takes volcanic energy mud as raw material and cooperates with Chinese herbal medicine to treat diseases by generating heat, warming meridians and dredging veins. The product can be applied to the treatment site, penetrate into tissues through heat, and has the effect of warming channels and promoting qi circulation, and can be used for treating cold-dampness pain, such as rheumatoid arthritis, numbness and pain of limbs, etc. This is a kind of external therapy. Through the operation of fixing acupoints on the skin and getting in touch with viscera through meridians, mud moxibustion can regulate the spleen and stomach, and is effective for abdominal pain, diarrhea, chronic diarrhea or chronic cold caused by deficiency and cold of the spleen and stomach. Mud moxibustion can also promote qi circulation, promote qi circulation and blood circulation, and disperse blood stasis, and also has therapeutic effect on blood stasis pain caused by traumatic injury.
How often do you do mud moxibustion?
Generally speaking, people with normal constitution can only apply mud moxibustion on the same part once a day, at most twice a day; For people with weak constitution, it is best to choose only one part to smear mud every day. Because mud moxibustion can accelerate blood circulation, people with weak constitution will have temporary blood sugar supply shortage. At this time, symptoms of dizziness and limb weakness may occur. At this time, you can smoke Shenque point, Qihai point and Guanyuan point for three minutes, and it will be relieved. For pathological patients with severe symptoms, mud moxibustion can be done once a day, but within 12 hours, moxibustion should not be done in more than three places, and moxibustion can be done 3-5 times a day, and it can be changed to 3 times a week or 3-5 days 1 time after symptoms are relieved. If it is a general conditioning, it only needs once every five days or once a week.
How often should mud moxibustion be applied?
In general, the reasonable time for a single mud moxibustion is about 40~45 minutes. Which plate is used to relax pores and lymphatic vessels before mud moxibustion 15 minutes, and the second half hour is the drug absorption stage. If the patient's body can't bear it during the mud painting process, the time can be shortened appropriately.