From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, bathing in moxa bath has a good effect on diseases such as wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, spleen-stomach deficiency-cold, accumulation of qi stagnation, excess in the upper body and deficiency in the lower body, syncope, exogenous pathogenic factors, cough and phlegm asthma.
From the perspective of western medicine, bathing in moxa bath mainly treats the following diseases: 1. Medical diseases: such as cold, diarrhea, bronchitis, hiccup, chronic gastritis, gastroptosis, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, thromboangiitis obliterans, chronic ulcerative colitis, diabetes, stroke, peripheral facial paralysis, hemifacial spasm, etc. 2, surgical symptoms: such as cervical spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbar sprain, osteoarthritis, chronic prostatitis, hernia, hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, radiation reaction, etc. 3, skin diseases: such as herpes zoster, vitiligo, alopecia areata, psoriasis, chilblain, neurodermatitis, corns and so on. 4. Gynecological diseases: such as uterine prolapse, habitual abortion, abnormal fetal position, functional uterine bleeding, dysmenorrhea and chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. 5, ENT diseases: myopia, sty, senile cataract, allergic rhinitis, atrophic rhinitis, inner ear vertigo, temporomandibular joint disorder, recurrent aphtha, etc.