The ancient treatment methods of China were summarized as "remonstration, stone, soup and fire" in the Records of Han Art and Literature, and fire was one of the four ancient treatments. Moxibustion was once the best way for ancient emperors, governors and generals to treat diseases. Clinical practice has proved that moxibustion is as effective as acupuncture, so moxibustion is listed before persuasion, stone and decoction in history.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Shi Moxibustion written by Wang Dongping, the son of Wang Cao, was the earliest monograph on moxibustion in China. Moxibustion points have increased, and moxibustion taboos are more specific than previous books, and the reasons for prohibiting moxibustion are stated.
Moxibustion was very popular in the imperial palace of the Song Dynasty. Song Taizu personally gave Emperor Taizong moxibustion and moxa stick moxibustion, which was later passed down as a much-told story. ("Song History" "Taizong was seriously ill and the emperor saw it. Relatives are burning moxa, and Taizong feels pain. The emperor also took moxa and moxibustion. " )
According to "History of Song Dynasty", Zhao Guangyi, the younger brother of Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin, was ill. Zhao Kuangyin rushed to visit him and personally held a moxa stick to moxibustion his younger brother. Zhao Guangyi's body was cold and wet, and the warm breath was sent into his body through moxibustion, which caused pain and called out. Mao then burned hot moxa on himself, which really hurt. Zhao Kuangyi was very moved that it could share his brother's pain.
The ancients appreciated the deep friendship between Zhao Kuangyin and his younger brother, so they used this idiom to praise his virtue and appreciate the mutual affection between brothers. Zhao Kuangyin personally does moxibustion for his younger brother, and also uses moxa sticks for moxibustion, which shows that he is skilled in moxibustion operation and quite credible.
Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, has not been handed down in Mo Bao, but there is a painting "Burning Ai Tie" in the Palace Museum. Its content is that Ouyang Xiu's eldest son, Ouyang Fa, has received moxibustion treatment. Ouyang Xiu believes that moxibustion is a knowledge, which is worth discussing and studying.
Li Tang was a famous painter in Southern Song Dynasty, who was good at landscape painting and figure painting. Among his few works, there is a picture of Moxibustion Ai Tu, which depicts a rural doctor sitting on a small bench and burning a patient's back with moxibustion. This painting is one of the earliest paintings with the theme of medicine in China, and it is now in the Palace Museum in Taiwan Province Province, China.
Li Yanwen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, the father of Li Shizhen, praised Artemisia argyi for being "produced in Yangshan, picked in the Dragon Boat Festival, and made great contributions to treating moxibustion", and also wrote "Biography of Artemisia argyi". Li Shizhen said that Ai Ye "wins with qi zhou and uses fillers, which is the most important thing in the world, so it is called Ai Yi." Before the Qing Dynasty, people from the imperial palace to ordinary people loved moxibustion very much, and almost everyone recognized this medical method, which could not only prevent and treat diseases, but also preserve health. According to legend, moxibustion pots in other places are impenetrable, and moxibustion is straight and transparent, so it is famous all over the country. Qi zhou, Hubei Province is the hometown of Li Shizhen, a famous pharmacologist in China. Artemisia argyi produced in qi zhou is also called "Artemisia argyi". Artemisia argyi, bamboo, Agkistrodon and tortoise are called "Four Treasures of the Study" in Shizhen's hometown.
Li Shizhen has two valuable experiences in the application of mugwort leaves, which can enlighten future generations (one is mugwort bag, which is made of soft cooked mugwort and wrapped in cloth, which has a good effect on cold pain in navel abdomen of middle-aged and elderly people and cold dysmenorrhea of women; The second is the moxa pad, which is made of soft and cooked moxa, the size of which is shoes and the thickness of which is 3,5 mm. It can treat and prevent cold and wet beriberi, tinea pedis and chilblain. On this basis, later generations made mugwort pillows, that is, soft and cooked mugwort was wrapped in cloth to make pillows, which had a good therapeutic effect on headaches caused by wind, cold and dampness.
It is recorded in the medical records of the Qing Dynasty (in the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu, Taiyuan Imperial Physician Artemisia argyi was crushed and rubbed, and then wrapped in silk to make a six-inch wide belt, which was tied around the waist of Emperor Guangxu to treat waist and hip pain to make up for the lack of soup. Liao Runhong's Integration of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Qing Dynasty also recorded that there was a person in Guangxi who was sick when he was young. He met a stranger. Every year, he was taught to moxibustion at the navel, and since then he has been healthy, but he is over 100 years old and very strong. This health care method has also spread to Japan.
It is recorded in the Japanese Library Masterpiece that on September 11th, the 15th year of Yuanbao, several old people were recommended to cross the bridge. Man Ping and his family were the first to cross the bridge. When asked about the secret of Man Ping's longevity, he replied: There is no other magic method, just moxibustion for three miles, which has been handed down from generation to generation in my family.