Perhaps summer is very sad for most people. People don't want to stay outside for a second in hot weather, and they can't live without air conditioning. But the elderly will tell you that it is very uncomfortable for the air conditioner as a whole not to sweat. Only by letting sweat flow out can you feel relaxed and even refreshed. Office white-collar workers, especially girls, feel that when the air conditioning temperature in the office is relatively low in summer, their skin is tight, their hands and feet are cold, and even dysmenorrhea is more serious in summer. They often drink hot water with air conditioning.
There are six qi in nature, wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire, which are the conditions for the growth and survival of all things. But when something should not appear in a certain season, it becomes evil and will lead to some diseases. We all know that there are always many infectious diseases in warm winter, and it can also be understood that abnormal climate leads to a large number of viruses. Turning on the air conditioner in summer actually belongs to man-made six evils.
Under normal circumstances, in summer, the human body's meridians are unobstructed, the skin is open, and blood flows from the depths of the zang-fu organs to the limbs and body surface, and the cold and dampness in our body will be sent out of the body through pores or feces. But with air conditioning, these cold and dampness can't go out, or we enter the air-conditioned room after sweating outdoors, and the pores shrink instantly, and the cold and dampness are blocked in the body. Over time, the state of cold and dampness became more and more serious.
Many people are thinking that they never eat cold drinks and are not frozen in winter. Where did they get the cold? Rome wasn't built in a day. The cold may come from the refrigerator we opened, the coolness in the shower, and the cold beer we drank. The reason why winter diseases need to be treated in summer is that on the one hand, those diseases caused by cold and dampness such as colds and joint pains in winter are actually the causes planted in summer; On the other hand, moxibustion at this time is the easiest way to reveal evil spirits and get twice the result with half the effort.
This is the right time to start moxibustion.
Moxibustion is one of the very old external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine. Among the six arts of traditional Chinese medicine, there are six methods: scraping, acupuncture, acupuncture, guidance, qigong, walking on stilts, massage, decoction and moxibustion. Now the acupuncture we understand is generally acupuncture, but the real acupuncture is acupuncture. It can be seen from the records of medical books of past dynasties that moxibustion was the main method in ancient times, supplemented by acupuncture, which was originally more important than acupuncture. However, due to the primitive moxibustion methods in the past, such as well-known direct moxibustion, also known as purulent moxibustion, scar moxibustion and so on. The pain is relatively great, so moxibustion gradually retreats to acupuncture. In recent years, moxibustion as a health care method has gradually returned to the public's field of vision.
In fact, the best thing about moxibustion is that most people can learn and master it, and it is safe and harmless. Finally, I want to tell you about the choice of moxa sticks.
First of all, we can choose pure moxa sticks. On the one hand, the moxa sticks added with traditional Chinese medicine may not be suitable for our health, on the other hand, it may change some properties of fever of moxa sticks. For beginners, it is best to use pure moxa sticks.
The second is about the new era of moxa sticks. Chen refers to the storage time of mugwort leaves. Generally speaking, the longer the mugwort leaves are stored, the easier it is to remove the dryness of new mugwort leaves. The made moxa stick is dark in color, tasteless, with some orange peel flavor and stronger penetration. The new moxa stick is light in color, with the smell of green moxa leaves, dry in firepower and choking in smoke. At present, due to the storage cost, it is basically good to keep Artemisia argyi for one year. Folium Artemisiae Argyi stored for a long time is generally made into thin moxa sticks, and the price is not cheap. Therefore, a treasure is two yuan for ten years old, and everyone still buys it carefully. If there is a hoard of moxa sticks at home, I feel that the firepower will be milder after a long time.
The third is the cashmere content. Moxa sticks are made of wormwood. The wormwood leaves are repeatedly pounded, and the small veins in the middle will produce wormwood, and the stems and large veins will become impurities for filtration. The higher the proportion, the more times of pounding, and the purer the moxa. 5: 1 roughly means 5 kg of wormwood leaves 1 kg of wormwood leaves. At present, the domestic technology limit is about 35: 1, and the moxa sticks above 30: 1 can be called gold moxa sticks, which are generally made in Ai Chen, so the price will naturally not be very low. See if you have a 50: 1 decade in your hand? Think about the price again, and you will probably know the real quality. The higher the proportion, the lighter the moxa stick, the faster it burns and the softer it feels. Some hard moxa sticks are mixed with impurity moxa powder. You can make them as hard as you want. For general household use, 10: 1 is recommended.
Finally, the thickness of the moxa stick. There are many vats of thick moxa sticks in the market. In fact, as we said before, moxibustion enters our body through acupoints, so we can't use too thick moxa sticks to absorb too much heat. Usually 2-4 cm in diameter is enough.
Most importantly, moxibustion can repel mosquitoes in summer, which directly saves mosquito-repellent incense.
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