Moxibustion originated in ancient China. The invention of moxibustion is that when primitive people used fire, a painful part was roasted comfortably by fire, so they took the initiative to burn it with fire to treat more pain. The ancients combined the fire theory and qi theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and then produced moxibustion, a magical treatment method, which has a long history in ancient medicine in China. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Jin Hong's Elbow Urgent Prescription and Sun Simiao's Thousand Women Essential Prescription recorded mud therapy. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica once talked about the relationship between mud and human body, saying that "all kinds of soil can eliminate dampness and strengthen the spleen." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen belongs to soil, and the soil in nature is applied to the human body, which is called "tongqi" in the spleen of human body. For diseases caused by spleen, mud therapy has obvious curative effect.

Medicinal mud moxibustion has a wide range of applications, and it was the main method to treat diseases in ancient China. In the words of traditional Chinese medicine, it has the functions of warming yang and benefiting qi, warming meridians and dredging collaterals, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass, and tonifying middle energizer and benefiting qi. It can be widely used in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics and five sense organs diseases. Secondly, it has a peculiar health care function. As a traditional therapy, medicinal mud moxibustion mainly converts heat energy into biological energy by burning acupuncture points with drugs, activates human meridians and regulates the physiological balance of the body, and achieves the purpose of external treatment of internal diseases. It is an extension of ancient mud moxibustion therapy, which means hot burning.