1, open the lid and smell. If it is fake mud moxibustion mixed with chemical preparations such as chemical paraffin, the smell will be very pungent; If there is a fragrance of herbs, at least it is mud moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine, which is just a matter of how many Chinese medicine ingredients it contains.

2. Open the box cover to see its color. Most mud moxibustion on the market now is dark black, because black can cover all colors. If it is really pure Chinese medicine mixed with beeswax and volcanic mud, its color will not be dark black, but natural color. Therefore, the real Chinese herbal medicine mud moxibustion, according to the different formula, the color will be different, but the color it shows must be natural.

For example, the color shown in the picture below is the natural color of pure Chinese medicine after boiling and mixing, with uniform color and three-dimensional sense; The color adjusted with pigment is bright, and it seems that there is a layer of color on the surface, which has no three-dimensional effect.

3. The previous method can basically identify whether it is traditional Chinese medicine mud moxibustion, so how to identify which traditional Chinese medicine mud moxibustion is better? Dig a part of mud moxibustion with a spoon and rub it with your fingers. If there is a small amount of traditional Chinese medicine in mud moxibustion, the proportion of mud and wax will inevitably increase. If you rub it with your fingers, you can obviously feel greasy, all of which are wax mud; However, mud moxibustion with many Chinese medicine ingredients and good curative effect has wax oil when rubbing, but it is only a little on the hand and not greasy.

4, the last big trick: take a spoonful of mud moxibustion from the middle (because the surface of the unused new mud moxibustion is definitely wax, and the wax is lighter than medicine, so most of it floats on it, and it is more appropriate to take mud from the middle), like a candle. Knead into a column and light it directly with a lighter. Chinese herbal medicine mud moxibustion has no irritating smell, no crackling sound, uniform flame color and only faint black smoke; Inferior mud moxibustion will have cracks, pungent smell (proving that there are chemicals), colorful flames and obvious black smoke. Finally, after burning, the ash of traditional Chinese medicine mud moxibustion is gray, and there are no particles when fingers are pinched. Just like plant ash, it proves that it is completely burned; The ash of inferior mud moxibustion is black and has particles when pinched, which proves that there are industrial chemicals.