Moxibustion cupping is based on cupping and moxibustion, and its historical inheritance and TCM mechanism are also inseparable from cupping and moxibustion theory.
Cupping therapy. In ancient times, it was called "Horn Method". The earliest recorded ancient medical books (52 prescriptions) unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province. Among them, there is a record of treating hemorrhoids with angle method: (omitted). In the Western Jin Dynasty, the medical scientist Ge Hong's
The application of moxibustion originated from Yuanmou, Yunnan Province, which used fire in the Stone Age10.7 million years ago.
Moxibustion is also called moxibustion. It uses wormwood or other drugs to place acupuncture points or pain points on the body surface for cauterization and warm ironing. By virtue of the slight heat of moxibustion fire and the function of drugs, through the conduction of meridians, it can warm and dredge meridians, reconcile qi and blood, coordinate yin and yang, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil spirits, and achieve the effects of treating diseases, preventing diseases, protecting health and beautifying. Lingshu Power in Huangdi Neijing says that acupuncture is not suitable for moxibustion, and "Introduction to Medicine" also says that moxibustion is necessary if medicine is not enough and needle is not enough. It can be seen that moxibustion has long been valued by people, and it has been widely spread because of its high safety, no toxic side effects and health care function.
The main functions come down to warming meridians, dispelling cold, activating qi and dredging collaterals, and the normal life activities of human body depend on the normal operation of qi and blood meridians. The movement of qi leads to the movement of blood, which describes the dynamic function of qi. Zhu Danxi said: "Blood is hot, but it will condense when it is cold", which means that the blood quality of blood should be normal; Meridians are distributed in all parts of the human body, including internal organs and external tissues such as muscles and bones. In a normal body, qi and blood flow around the meridians. The road of qi and blood operation should be smooth. In short, normal human qi should have sufficient power, good blood quality (no blood stasis) and smooth running roads. If external factors such as wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire invade the human body or local qi and blood, and the meridians are blocked, moxibustion can solve the qi and blood stagnation and dredge the meridians to a certain extent. Clinically used for arthralgia syndrome, diarrhea, sores and swelling, frostbite, amenorrhea, infertility, sprain and contusion, etc. , especially surgery and traumatology.
"Qi is divided into yin, yang, deficiency and excess" has the functions of strengthening yang, restoring yang, rescuing adverse reactions and saving dying diseases, and is often used in clinical first aid of qi deficiency and subsidence emergencies such as stroke, acute abdominal pain, diarrhea and dysentery. Yang Qi is weak and unstable, with deficiency in the upper part and deficiency in the lower part, and qi deficiency subsides, resulting in proctoptosis, stagnation of yin, prolonged diarrhea, metrorrhagia and abortion. There is a saying in Lingshu Jing that "depression leads to moxibustion", so the symptoms of qi deficiency and sagging viscera are often treated with moxibustion. Li Dongyuan, the founder of spleen and stomach theory, also thinks that "fur should not be cold if trapped". Therefore, moxibustion is not only conducive to warming and nourishing the yang, promoting the sinking of the yang, preventing miscarriage and consolidating menstruation, but also effective for those who are not strong and have loose acupuncture. Restore the body function to normal. Such as proctoptosis, yin stagnation, persistent diarrhea and other diseases. It can be improved by moxibustion at Baihui point, so as to "push it up". Another example is the cloud in The Analects of Confucius: "Those who have rectocele in the process of releasing cold at points are full of water." This is the unique function of moxibustion.
Moxibustion can dispel cold and clear heat, which shows that it has a two-way adjustment effect on the original functional state of the body. Especially with the expansion of the clinical scope of moxibustion, this role is more and more recognized by people.
Moxibustion and cupping are the inheritance and innovation of cupping and moxibustion, which are embodied in:
1, the shape of the appliance, the ancient cupping device has arc, circle, ellipse and so on. Such as horn pot, ceramic pot, etc. Modern glass jars are all like this. Both ancient and modern tanks are made of hard materials. Moxibustion cupping device is hyperbolic gourd-shaped and soft in material. Such as rubber, silicone rubber, etc.
2, the role of the instrument, the methods of vacuumizing the tank made of hard materials are mouth suction method, ignition method, mechanical pumping method, in order to achieve the purpose of vacuumizing the tank. Moxibustion is made of mugwort leaves into strips, which produce effects at a certain temperature. Moxibustion cupping can automatically exhaust air by pressing the can body, thus achieving the vacuum effect. The vacuum degree can be controlled by combining mechanical vacuum pumping.
This instrument integrates vacuum and heating. Moxibustion and cupping are made of high-temperature resistant materials, which can withstand high temperatures above 180℃. The progress of science and technology is an important reason for the emergence of moxibustion and cupping. Moxibustion and cupping have all the functions of vacuum cupping and moxibustion.
4. Innovation of instrument function: In addition to the functions of vacuum and moxibustion, the moxibustion pot can also be filled with 36×500px of medicine for high-temperature vaporization due to the large-capacity high-temperature greenhouse in the pot. It can be likened to moving the function that only a big pot can produce to a small cupping device. This is the dream result of many Chinese medicine practitioners. For example, if you want to apply a pair of medicine for traumatic injury to the affected area, you have to prepare the medicine, fry it in a medicine jar, put the fried medicine bag away, and the doctor should put the medicine bag on the affected area of the patient. These four steps are one-to-one for doctors and patients. And it can only be used in one place at a time. With moxibustion and cupping, it is different. You need to prepare the medicine, put it in the moxibustion cupping device, heat it for 5 minutes, and put it in the part that needs cupping. Then heat the second tank, the third tank and the n tank and pull it to the part where you need to pull it. The improved moxibustion pot can heat multiple pots at the same time, and can be placed in multiple parts you need at the same time, which is of great significance for Chinese medicine to harmonize yin and yang, treat diseases and get through one pulse and multiple meridians.
The large-capacity greenhouse in the tank can hold not only ordinary Chinese medicines, but also fresh medicines. Many ethnic medicines and specific medicines are effective by external application of fresh medicines. Therefore, the role of moxibustion and cupping invisibly expands its scope of application. This is a good idea and practice of external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.
New thinking of TCM treatment: the combination of oral administration and external use is a valuable direction of TCM treatment of difficult diseases.
The practical value of introducing the international frontier theoretical technology "vacuum zero point theory" into moxibustion and cupping lies in the very important conclusion that "vacuum is an energy amplifier". According to the understanding of life phenomenon in the life science conference, in the life system, internal and external substances and (thermal) power reflect the dynamic process of mutual communication. The normal exchange of material strength is a healthy life, and vice versa is a sub-health and disease state.
The amplifier effect of dynamic energy can explain the phenomena of harmonizing yin and yang, dredging qi and blood, "small energy, great effect" and "qi reaching" in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and these key terms play a very important role in the mutual implementation of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine.
5. Analysis of the dynamic factors of "Qi to" in TCM.
1. The transformation law of "Yin Pingyang Secret" is the occurrence of "Qi Arriving" in the effectiveness standard of traditional Chinese medicine.
"Moving the picture to Qi" is to let the body feel "Qi (field, thermal field)" flowing on the body through various physical methods. There are many ways to achieve this effect. The smaller the action area near the center, the higher the energy level of heat, the greater the probability of heat exchange and the greater the possibility of "qi reaching" in TCM technology. We also clearly see this. However, if the method is carefully scrutinized, it is not difficult to draw the conclusion that laser moxibustion is the most scientific. This is a wrong conclusion that goes against the facts! Where does the contradiction come from? In the table, we can easily find that the acupoint effect method is the basic method to produce the effect of qi, but most sweating methods have no report on the effect of qi. External sweating method is effective in sweating, and the effect of qi produced by acupoint thermal effect of internal heat deep method is effective. Representative methods include bird moxibustion, Bian Shi moxibustion, laser moxibustion and hanging moxibustion. The thermal effect should be: medicinal moxibustion, and the stimulating effects are: acupuncture, bioelectricity and so on. What are the characteristics of "Acupoint Effect"? "Point effect" includes: heat of point area and temperature. Heat is measured by energy level. In other words, "point effect" includes point area and temperature energy to measure. According to the laws of thermophysics, under the same thermal conditions, the thermal energy level and thermal action area are Gaussian normal distribution.
The functional relationship is:
It turns out that "small area and high thermal energy level" must be based on the maximum bearing capacity of the skin, which is generally below 50℃. Thus, it can be understood that the conditions of gas arrival are small area, high energy level and temperature control range less than 50℃. Therefore, the conclusion of "small heat, big reaction" is correct.
Professor Chen Rixin, an expert in moxibustion, concluded that moxibustion does not make the skin hotter, but uses a small amount of heat to achieve a big reaction. Heat penetration, heat transfer and heat dissipation, slight heat at the proximal end and heat at the distal end are necessary and sufficient conditions for moxibustion to achieve the best effect of "qi"
The vacuum moxibustion instrument we developed completely follows the three elements of "small area, high energy level and comfortable feeling". The instrument is characterized by flexible materials, gourd-shaped structure, large-capacity internal heating cavity for drug vaporization and automatic control.
Second, multi-factor energy level exchange.
American scientific research has an amazing conclusion: "Vacuum is an energy amplifier. When 1 energy is input, it can output 4-20 energies. " Looking back at the history of scientific development, we can see that the discovery and application of electronic amplifiers have promoted the development of human information science and the great progress of science and technology. Will the discovery of the function of energy amplifier and its application in Chinese medicine science also bring a great progress or revolution to the field of Chinese medicine? To be tested by history.
Vacuum technology has been widely used in cupping therapy in ancient China. Through long-term clinical practice, the application scope of vacuum cupping therapy has widely penetrated from abscess treatment to internal and external medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, facial features and other disciplines. Our innovative vacuum instrument puts the vacuum cupping device into moxibustion technology, and effectively combines the two together, so that the heat and drug power of moxibustion are amplified in vacuum, and the effects of improving human microcirculation, repairing nerve tissue and restoring fatigue are more obvious on the original basis. Detoxification of body surface, removing blood stasis and promoting regeneration, dredging meridians and qi and blood are irreplaceable by other methods! Our vacuum moxibustion technology embodies the function of "energy amplifier" of "small heat and big reaction". What is the optimal temperature of small heat?
Many scientific experiments show that the range of 35-43℃ is the best small temperature. We assume that their average energy level at 39℃ is 1, and put them into a vacuum level amplifier. Although the temperature of 39℃ remains unchanged, its energy level is amplified to less than or close to 4 times. It is also concluded that the permeability and exchange force of various heat, medicine and force have been greatly improved in vacuum environment. This is consistent with the actual results, that is, the effect of "qi arrival" produced by vacuum moxibustion is above 82%.
Ke Cheng, a professor at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, believes that biological tissues first absorb heat and then output heat after saturation, which is a process of repeated thermal oscillation. This research result can fully explain the phenomena that "moxibustion does not make the skin hotter, the better" and "near-end slight heat and far-end heat". Because, in the process of heat exchange and transfer, the direction of heat transfer is two-way. First, the reverse transmission leads to the increase of local heat accumulation but the oscillation effect is very low, so the transmission effect is very small, resulting in local thermal discomfort; Second, homeopathic transmission leads to near-end input and far-end fever. The "gas field * * * vibrator" made by us combines large amplitude and low frequency thermal oscillation with negative pressure oscillation technology, which increases the probability of "gas arrival" effect to over 87%. It shows that "gas to gas" effect is closely related to biological vibration.
Vacuum moxibustion heat exchange, * * * vibration heat exchange, the energy level is constantly accelerated and repeated, and the heat exchange inside and outside the body is constantly jumping. According to physics, the acceleration caused by vibration can make the energy reach a compound maximum instantly. The combination of these three groups of maximum values constitutes a unique "E-order energy level exchange" method for vacuum moxibustion energy field adjustment (see the right picture).
From the above analysis, it can be concluded that vacuum moxibustion can vaporize drugs at the temperature of 180℃, and the chemical power of drug molecules, thermal power under temperature and energy level of vacuum environment are amplified, thus enhancing the permeability of drugs. It is a new type of drug thermal controlled release operation technology, and it is the inheritance and innovation of traditional medicine pot technology. It plays a unique role in the exchange of multi-factor living standards.
6. Study on compound drugs for external use.
Regulating effect of vacuum hot moxibustion liquid on biological energy field. Vacuum hot moxibustion liquid is a non-toxic pure Chinese medicine secret recipe, which can be used for external use and oral administration. For external use, the drug penetrates the stratum corneum and directly has multiple effects on the sensory cells in the dermis and basal layer. For example, regulating the imbalance of cold and heat, expelling cold and sweating, relieving cough and asthma, removing blood stasis and detoxifying, and harmonizing ying and Wei. It can stimulate the heat source in the body to produce heating effect, leading to local or whole body sweating. This thermal effect can flow to the whole body to cause sweating, and it can also cause heat sensation in the meridian passage with the flow of meridians, such as only flowing to the back of the hand and joints, causing heat sensation in the joints of the back of the hand. For another example, it can make heat flow to the internal organs, so that the body surface does not sweat, but the body is warm as spring. After oral administration, the fever in the body is faster than that for external use, and the forehead is hot and sweaty. Does the drug have the effect of breaking through the blood-brain barrier? To be verified.
Vacuum hot moxibustion liquid can regulate the heat production function of biological energy field and has the function of expelling cold. Mainly for external use, there is no physical difference between cold and heat when used externally. It is not suitable for pregnant women.
7. Study on oral drugs.
Thoughts on regulating biological energy field-brain dynamic field by internal medicine tea.
The market development of traditional Chinese medicine tea mainly focuses on nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, invigorating spleen and calming nerves, clearing away fire and losing weight, and prolonging life. There are relatively few varieties of medicinal tea that have an influence on the brain nervous system. The main components of the internal medicine tea we developed are: theophylline, Ganoderma alkaloids, Hedyotis diffusa glycoside, carotene, salidroside, caffeic acid, Cordyceps sinensis glycoside and so on. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly comes from Tibet, Guizhou and Fujian. Medicinal tea can replenish essence, refresh the mind, restore fatigue, quickly act on the central nervous system, and make the brain instantly replenish youthful vitality. After soaking in water for a few minutes, you can immediately restore the command and control function of the brain. Medicinal tea is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine, which is mild in nature and has a good effect on brain nerves. Has no contraindication to deficiency, deficiency, cold and heat constitution, no toxic and side effects, wide adaptability and long-term drinking.
8. Instruments should be digital, controllable and networked.
Entering thousands of households is the future development direction of traditional Chinese medicine. Networking, digitization and remote control of human-computer interaction function are becoming more and more important. Moxibustion and cupping cover a variety of external functions of traditional Chinese medicine, realizing networking, digitalization and remote control. The man-machine interaction function meets the needs of the future development of traditional Chinese medicine and is an advanced modern Chinese medicine instrument and equipment.