Early winter is the best time to start using moxibustion to care for your body.
It's winter in beginning of winter, and it's freezing season in beginning of winter. Trees wither and hide their vitality. The yang of human body is also hidden with the transformation of nature. At this time, health preservation should conform to the law of natural seclusion, and gathering yin and protecting yang is the fundamental.
This means that since the winter of independence, the human body's yang has also been hidden with the changes of seasons, and health care should also pay attention to protecting the yang.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that besides traditional medicated diet, moxibustion can also be properly used to protect yang and enhance the body's resistance, thus regulating and improving the body's immune function and enhancing the disease resistance in winter.
Beginning of winter moxibustion is most suitable for patients with chronic diseases such as chronic bronchitis, asthma, gastrointestinal diseases, neck, shoulder, lumbago and leg pain, rheumatic bone pain, weakness and low immunity.
Of course, it also has a good effect on people suffering from yang deficiency, limb cold, palace cold, chills and nocturia.
Which acupoints are good for moxibustion in early winter?
(1) Zusanli moxibustion
Zusanli is a big cave with strong body and mind. Zusanli Moxibustion has the effects of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, regulating qi and blood, promoting transport and transformation, tonifying deficiency and strengthening body resistance, eliminating pathogenic factors and preventing diseases.
Mild moxibustion: light moxa stick, smoke moxibustion at Zusanli point, 3cm away from the skin, and fix moxa stick 10-20 minutes each time. When the local area feels warm and comfortable, use a local reddish prescription.
(2) Guanyuan moxibustion
Guanyuan point is an important point to replenish the vitality of the whole body. Guanyuan Moxibustion has the functions of warming kidney, consolidating essence, invigorating qi and strengthening yang, regulating chong and ren, and regulating qi and blood. Attend all kinds of shortcomings and damages.
Mild Moxibustion: Moxibustion points 10-20 minutes each time, with local reddish degree.
Warm box moxibustion: Moxibustion lasts about 30 minutes, with the warmth and comfort of the lower abdomen as the degree.
The above moxibustion methods are recommended 2-3 times a week, and one month is a course of treatment.
(3) Qi Hai Moxibustion
"Qihai point warms the whole body" means that Qihai point has the function of regulating general weakness and enhancing immunity. Sea moxibustion has the effects of nourishing vitality, tonifying kidney and solidifying essence.
Mild Moxibustion: Touch the moxa stick and smoke moxibustion at Qihai point, 3 cm away from the skin. When the local area feels warm and comfortable, fix the moxa stick 10-20 minutes at a time, taking the local redness as the degree.
(4) Shenshu moxibustion
The kidney point is at the waist, with two fingers, one on the left and one on the right, next to Mingmen point (opposite the navel). Beishu point is the place where the essence of the five zang-organs is injected into the body surface, and it is an important point to regulate the function of the five zang-organs and supplement the healthy qi of the human body. Shenshu moxibustion has the functions of regulating kidney qi, strengthening waist and spine, strengthening body and strengthening yang.
Mild Moxibustion: Moxibustion the acupoint 10-20 minutes each time, with local redness as the degree.