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What are the health functions of moxibustion? These four types of people are not suitable for moxibustion.
Function:

1, local stimulation can make local skin hyperemia and telangiectasia, enhance local blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, relieve and eliminate smooth muscle spasm, strengthen local skin tissue metabolism, and promote the dissipation and absorption of pathological products such as inflammation, adhesion, exudate and hematoma; It can also cause the diffusion of inhibitory substances in cerebral cortex, reduce the excitability of nervous system, and play a sedative and analgesic role; At the same time, heating can also promote the absorption of drugs.

2, meridian regulation, so that the internal organs and limbs coordinate with each other.

3. Adjust immunity and enhance immune function.

4. Warming meridians to dispel cold.

5. Activating qi and dredging collaterals

6. Supporting yang and strengthening the body.

7, detoxification and heat dissipation

8, disease prevention and health care

Taboo:

1. All exposed parts, such as the face, should not be directly moxibustion, so as not to form scars and affect the appearance.

2. Do not apply moxibustion to areas with thin skin and few muscles, waist and sacrum of pregnant women, lower abdomen, nipples, genitals and testicles of men and women. In addition, do not directly moxibustion joints. In addition, don't moxibustion big blood vessels and heart. The eyeball belongs to the face, so don't moxibustion.

3. Extreme fatigue, hunger, satiety, drunkenness, excessive sweating, emotional instability, or female menstrual taboo moxibustion.

4. Some infectious diseases, high fever, coma, convulsions, or extreme physical exhaustion and emaciated bones are all prohibited from moxibustion.

5. People who have no self-control ability such as mental patients should avoid moxibustion.