Each time period has different characteristics throughout the year, and different health preservation methods should be adopted in different seasons. Winter moxibustion is undoubtedly a very good way to keep in good health. Let me introduce you to the method of moxibustion on meridians in traditional Chinese medicine, hoping it will be useful to you!

Introduction to moxibustion basics

1. What does the heat of moxibustion do?

Moxibustion will produce a lot of smoke when it burns. When this kind of smoke condenses to a certain amount in a space, it will produce a lot of heat and therapeutic near infrared rays, as high as 10mm, which can stimulate the human body's own "immune activator". This immune activator has immune and regulatory functions, can effectively regulate the secretion of hormones and sex hormones, enhance the function of female ovaries, and eliminate and improve symptoms such as dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, frigidity and infertility. It can also effectively eliminate male impotence, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation and other diseases.

2. Why do you want to do moxibustion conditioning for a long time?

Health is not a temporary, but a lifetime! The best way is persistence, and only persistence can get the best curative effect. Modern people can't refuse the convenience brought by modern high technology. Cold air conditioning, out-of-season food, computer, etc. It makes man and nature disharmonious and destroys nature. People's bodies will lose their resistance in such an environment for a long time, and diseases will take the opportunity to invade. Due to long-term lack of exercise, heavy work pressure, unbalanced diet and staying up late, our metabolism is slow and detoxification is not smooth, which will affect our body balance and lead to low immunity, thus turning sub-health into a turning point. It's too late to regret. Therefore, we don't die of disease, but of ignorance. The best doctor is ourselves. From now on, it is an extravagant hope to know your body again and take good care of it. Health and longevity are gone!

3. Can myopia be conditioned by moxibustion?

Moxibustion for myopia Moxibustion for myopia can achieve the purpose of regulating liver and kidney and treating eyes. The principle of treating myopia in TCM is nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing blood and improving eyesight. Acupoints around the eyes are the main therapeutic parts of traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion for myopia. The specific method is to sit or lie down and moxibustion Jingming, Fishbone, Tongzi, Sibai, Liver and Kidney, Fengchi and Dazhui for 3-5 minutes. If you feel slightly hot or the surrounding panel is flushed, you should moxibustion once a day, and 10 is a course of treatment. Vision will be improved obviously. Be careful not to overuse your eyes during the treatment, so as to avoid poor curative effect.

Benefits of moxibustion

1, harmonizing yin and yang. The balance of yin and yang in human body is fundamental to the occurrence and development of diseases. Using the reinforcing and reducing effect of moxibustion therapy, the effect of harmonizing yin and yang can be achieved.

2. Warming meridians to dispel cold. The warmth of Artemisia argyi leaves and the ignition of moxibustion make the heat reach the muscle layer, warm the qi machine and promote blood circulation. Moxibustion has the effects of warming channels and activating collaterals, dispelling cold and removing dampness, regulating qi and blood, relieving arthralgia and relieving pain.

3, qi and blood circulation, stasis and stagnation. Qi can move when it sees heat, condense when it sees cold and move when it sees temperature. Moxibustion is warm, which can coordinate qi and blood, camp and health, blood circulation, promote qi and blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis and dissipate stagnation.

4, warming the yang to make up the deficiency, supplementing the middle and benefiting the qi.

5. Return to Yang to save the inverse.

6, disease prevention and health care, physical fitness, longevity.

Moxibustion therapy has many functions. If the selected acupoints are different, the moxibustion methods are different, the degree of moxibustion is different or the materials used for moxibustion are different, then the efficacy is different; Therefore, different acupoints and operation methods should be selected according to the specific condition in clinical application. If you do moxibustion at home, you should pay attention to the following five principles to avoid hurting your body.

Principle of moxibustion for health preservation

1, quality of moxa

Choose good quality moxa. Inferior moxa is stiff and does not reunite. When burning, the firepower is fierce, which is easy to make patients feel burning, and even when smoking, stone particles fall off and burn the panel.

2. Ambient ventilation

The environment should be ventilated to prevent the strong moxa smoke from causing harm to human body. Patients with respiratory diseases, especially those with asthma, should use moxibustion with caution.

3. Moxibustion site

Pregnant women's abdomen and lumbosacral region should not be moxibustion; Direct moxibustion is not suitable for facial five senses, * * and large blood vessels; The skin of head, chest and limbs is thin and there are many bones and muscles, so moxibustion is not allowed.

Step 4 avoid burns

When applying moxibustion, the distance between the moxibustion fire and the panel should be adjusted in time. Some patients have strong regional chill, and they have strong tolerance to moxa fire in the early stage of moxibustion. They often unconsciously put moxa fire near the panel, causing burning pain on the panel. In fact, it is advisable to moxibustion 10- 15 minutes every time until the skin turns red.

Step 5 watch the time

Those with strong physique, mild illness and short course of disease can be moxibustion 1-2 times; Patients with poor health, serious illness and old age can be moxibustion for several months or even more than 1 year. At the first moxibustion, once a day 1 time; Long-term moxibustion treatment was changed to 2-3 days 1 time after 3 times.

Traditional Chinese medicine meridian health-care acupoint

Six formulas to stay away from pain

Experienced the cure of the disease. With the development of Chinese medicine for so many years, ten key points have been found from the position where the great meridians pass, which are called ten general points. These ten general acupoints are not only simple and easy to remember, but also have obvious curative effects, and the degree of common use can be called acupoint eating in traditional Chinese medicine.

This paper further summarizes six most practical acupoints and provides a memory formula. As long as you recite and remember the position, you can relieve the pain at any time.

Face to face harvest

Hegu is definitely the first choice for all acupoints. Hegu is not only a commonly used acupuncture point in clinic, but also an important acupuncture point for treating pain.

It is the acupoint on the large intestine meridian of hand Yangming, which is mainly used to treat head, face and facial pain: headache, eye pain, toothache and sore throat, so the prescription is called "face-to-mouth". Chen Yusheng said that it is the most common to treat headache by pressing Hegu point. For patients with toothache, the effect of acupuncture above Hegu point is also very obvious, so if you are afraid of pain when pulling teeth, you can also press it yourself.

Some scholars have further counted the indications of Hegu point in ancient books and documents, and found that Hegu point can not only relieve head and face pain, but also treat pain in many different parts of the body, such as upper limb pain, low back pain and stomach pain.

More studies have found that acupuncture at Hegu point can increase the human body's tolerance to pain and reduce the sensitivity to pain, so patients who are afraid of pain can also acupuncture at Hegu point to suppress pain.

There are two, three, Yangxi and Pianli points near Hegu point, and the second metacarpal side next to it is regarded as the epitome of the human body, which can reflect the problem of the whole body from head to toe and is an important acupoint area. So when you really forget the acupoints, just remember to press near the tiger's mouth wherever it hurts. The closer you get to the head, the higher you press, and the lower limbs press. Just press left with your left hand and right with your right hand.

Location of Hegu point: open the tiger's mouth, Hegu point is between the first metacarpal bone and the two metacarpals, and between the two tendons.

The easiest way to find it is to put your fingers together on the table, press down to the highest point, and slightly force your index finger. If the feeling of pain and numbness is obvious, it means that the position of pressing is correct.

Stay in the belly for three miles

Located in the stomach meridian of Foot Yangming, it is the focus of health care for regulating gastrointestinal function. Stomach pain, stomach cramp, flatulence, dyspepsia, duodenal ulcer, constipation, stomachache and other gastrointestinal problems can be treated, so there is a formula of "retaining stomach for three miles".

Zusanli has another meaning, that is, you can walk three miles a day after pressing it. Zusanli can relieve pain in knees and legs. For people whose lower limbs are easily tired and unable to walk, pressing can make their legs stronger.

Zusanli position: three inches and four fingers wide under the eyes.

Gynecological sanyinjiao

An article published in the journal Pain Management, Nursing and Treating Pain reviews the literatures about acupressure and pain in 1996-20 1 1 year. Almost all the articles about menstrual pain and labor pain are about pressing Sanyinjiao, which is not the case compared with other pains summarized by the author.

Sanyinjiao refers to the intersection of three yin meridians: Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian, Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian and Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian. It mainly regulates the lower jiao, that is, the part below the navel, which is particularly effective in treating gynecological diseases, so menstrual pain, labor pain, menopausal syndrome and so on. You can press it.

This point has the function of uterine contraction, and it is best to avoid pressing during pregnancy.

Location of Sanyinjiao point: the highest point on the inside of ankle is three inches and four fingers wide.

Seek the best from the waist and back

Lifting heavy objects and sitting badly can easily lead to backache, so no matter how many workers or static workers in the office, lumbar fascia, muscles, ligaments,

Torsional injury of intervertebral facet joint and joint capsule.

After passing through the central point of the bladder meridian of Foot Taiyang, the formula is "seeking from the waist and back", which is mainly used to treat symptoms such as waist, spine, back pain, sciatica, and mobility inconvenience of dorsal lower limbs.

Location of Weizhong point: it is located at the back of thigh and between two tendons in the center of knee fossa.

Neiguan cardiothoracic stomach

Neiguan point is located in the pericardium meridian of hand jueyin, which is closely related to the heart, and can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and relieve angina pectoris and arrhythmia.

In addition, Neiguan point is a collateral point connecting the meridians of triple energizer, so it can regulate triple energizer, promote blood circulation and relieve pain; At the same time, it intersects with the Yin-Wei veins distributed in the chest and abdomen in the eight strange meridians, so it can treat various diseases in the chest, such as cough, asthma, vomiting, stomachache and so on, so there is a recipe of "keeping the heart and stomach inside".

All pain and pain belong to the heart. Chen Yusheng also mentioned that pain is sometimes caused by emotion and stress, which is a subjective symptom. If it can't be relieved in time, it will be easy to be restless, which will aggravate the pain of negative emotions and form a vicious circle.

Pressing Neiguan point can achieve the effect of calming the heart and calming the nerves. Neiguan can * * * parasympathetic nerves, so the heartbeat tends to be stable. You can press it when you are nervous, rub it when it hurts, and soothe your nerves and relieve pain.

Location of Neiguan point: When you clench your fist hard, there will be two tendons floating on the inside of your forearm. Between the two tendons, there will be a two-inch three-finger wrist.

Traumatic Yanglingquan

Everything about bones and muscles can be found in Yangling Spring on Shaoyang Gallbladder Sutra. So arthritis, fifty shoulders, sports injury, sprain and contusion, stiff neck and other symptoms can be pressed, which is the origin of "traumatic Yanglingquan".

Clinically, it will also be tied to the adjacent Zusanli. Usually, when the needle is applied, the tendon will be released immediately. When the tendon is pulled, you can press Yanglingquan and Zusanli at the same time.

Yanglingquan location: the outside of the calf, the depression below the fibula capitulum.

Look for Hegu for head and neck pain, Zusanli for stomach discomfort, Sanyinjiao for gynecological symptoms, Weizhong for lumbago, Neiguan for cardiovascular problems, and Yanglingquan for muscle soreness.

Keep in mind that "the face and mouth are combined with the valley, the abdomen is three miles, the gynecology is three yin, the waist and back are in the middle, the heart and stomach are combined, and Yangling Spring is injured. No matter what kind of pain you face, you can find the corresponding acupoints at one time to relieve discomfort.

Suitable for people with moxibustion in winter.

First, spleen and kidney deficiency, yang deficiency. Many people, especially women, will have symptoms such as pale face, listlessness, laziness, lethargy, chills, fatigue, backache and leg weakness, and long urination in winter. These are all manifestations of deficiency of both spleen and kidney and yang deficiency.

People's yin and yang are born, and they need to constantly replenish the essence of Tianshui Valley to last long. Friends who have this kind of performance, especially modern white-collar workers, should seize the winter, do moxibustion and tonify the yang, so as to lay a good foundation for their health in the coming year!

Second, yin and yang imbalance, cold long-term invasion of the body of the crowd.

Moxibustion therapy has appeared in China for thousands of years. The so-called moxibustion is to bring the medicinal properties of wormwood to the pain of human body through acupuncture points and meridians by means of fumigation and burning, and to warm and replenish qi and blood, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil by virtue of its warming and tonifying effects. Moxibustion has the effects of harmonizing yin and yang, warming meridians and dispelling cold, and warming yang and benefiting qi. Osteoarthralgia such as scapulohumeral periarthritis, cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis; And gynecological dysmenorrhea and palace cold; There are also symptoms such as asthma and chronic gastroenteritis caused by imbalance of Yin and Yang and prolonged cold invasion. Moxibustion in winter can get the best effect of dispelling cold and strengthening yang! In winter, the two acupuncture points of aphrodisiac moxibustion are full of energy, optimistic, warm hands and feet, and have a great appetite! These two points are Mingmen and Zusanli.

Mingmen, also known as Du meridian point, is located under the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra in the back, opposite to the navel. Life is the foundation of human beings; The door is the gateway to enter and exit, and it is also connected with the kidney. The fire of life gate is the yang of human body. Clinically, the disease of the decline of life gate fire is consistent with the deficiency of kidney yang. Because this point is located in the middle of the waist and back and connected with the spine, moxibustion at Mingmen point can tonify kidney, warm kidney and strengthen yang, waist and knees and kidney. Moxibustion at Mingmen also dredges the stagnation point on Du meridian, strengthens the connection with Ren meridian, and promotes the movement of Ren meridian.

Zusanli is the intersection of the stomach meridian of Zuyangming and one of the five Shu points. The foot is called the second heart of the human body, and often catches cold from the foot. When the yang is insufficient, the feet are often obviously afraid of cold. Zusanli point can improve the symptoms of foot fear of cold. On the other hand, Yangming Meridian is a meridian full of qi and blood, and Zusanli is the joint point of Yangming Meridian, where qi and blood of meridian and viscera are deeply integrated. Therefore, conditioning Zusanli is an important acupoint for health care, warmth retention and yang protection.