What are the benefits of postpartum moxibustion fumigation? Moxibustion grass tastes bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the spleen, liver and kidney, so it is called "herb". Moxibustion grass is a pure positive herb, which can just warm the yin and cold of women, so it is also regarded as a natural tonic for women. Moxibustion grass is mostly used in the popular "medicated bath" in Taiwan Province Province. In ancient times, expectant mothers used moxibustion grass to boil water for bathing or sitz bath fumigation, which can warm the uterus, promote blood circulation and qi circulation, help expectant mothers eliminate fatigue, promote blood circulation of perineal wounds, accelerate healing, and avoid bacterial infection of skin and perineal wounds. In addition, it can also increase the sleep and appetite of expectant mothers, keep a happy mood and increase their complexion, and has no adverse effect on the color, quantity, smell and bleeding amount of lochia.
For a long time, women's uterus is only a tool to produce social labor, but the uterus is a measure of women's health. All kinds of changes that have taken place in women, that is, holidays, pregnancy and childbirth, are based on the uterus, so managing the uterus is the basis of managing women's health. The heat and pure yang medicine of sitz bath fumigation moxibustion can dispel the cold in the body through perineum, warm the uterus, improve blood circulation, disinfect and relieve itching.
Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Folium Artemisiae Argyi is bitter in taste, warm in nature, ripe and hot, and pure in yang, which can restore yang loss, dredge the twelve meridians, take three yin, regulate qi and blood, drive away cold and dampness, warm uterus, and use moxibustion and fire to penetrate meridians and eliminate diseases." It shows that Folium Artemisiae Argyi, as a moxibustion material, has the functions of dredging channels and collaterals, dispelling yin and cold, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, and restoring yang to save adverse events. Modern pharmacological research shows that there are many kinds of volatile oils in Folium Artemisiae Argyi, among which 1.8- cineole (accounting for more than 50%), and others are α-cochineal, sesquiterpene enol and their esters. Air-dried leaves contain minerals 10. 13%, fat 2.59%, protein 25.85%, vitamins A, B 1, B2, C, etc. Moxibustion with mugwort leaves is generally better as you get older, so there is a saying that "seven years of illness and three years of moxa" (Mencius). Whole grass has the effects of regulating menstruation, stopping bleeding, preventing miscarriage, dispelling cold and removing dampness. Treat menoxenia, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain, abortion, and metrorrhagia, and radically treat rheumatic arthritis, head wind, and intra-monthly wind. Because it can cut ice to make it round and cure all diseases, it is the most commonly used medicine for doctors.
Modern experimental studies have proved that Artemisia argyi leaves have antibacterial and antiviral effects; Antiasthmatic, antitussive and expectorant effects; Hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; Sedative and antiallergic effects; Protect liver and gallbladder, etc.
Who is not suitable for moxibustion? 1. People with eczema indicate that there is wind-heat in the body, which is not applicable. If used, it will aggravate the condition.
2, like expectant mothers, people with physical trauma do not advocate the use of moxibustion grass.
Don't use the wound of the injured person to enter the body, otherwise it will be easily infected.