Can moxibustion lose weight?
Overweight caused by excessive fat accumulation in the human body is called obesity, which is formed because the body consumes more calories than it consumes, resulting in excessive fat accumulation in the body. People's fatness depends on the number of fat cells in the body and the content of lipids in fat cells. Most people who start to be obese in adulthood are cell hypertrophy, and there is no obvious increase.
People's fatness depends on the number and quality of fat cells in the body. Moxibustion stimulates acupoints, adjusts the balance of functions of meridians, qi and blood, viscera, promotes gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduces the absorption of fat, increases its excretion, and achieves the effect of losing weight.
1. Moxibustion first generates heat: after the skin is heated, the pores expand, so that the medicine quickly penetrates under the skin and reaches the focus. The oxidation rate of oxygen utilization increases by 2.5 times for every degree of battery temperature increase. Moxibustion can improve the ability and speed of cells to absorb nutrients.
2. Moxibustion can be used in combination with other traditional Chinese medicines except wormwood: after a variety of valuable Chinese herbal medicines are added to moxibustion materials, their medicinal components can quickly reach the focus, and under the action of heat and moxibustion force, they can instantly dredge meridians and activate cells.
3. Moxibustion can instantly stimulate meridian points and open meridians.
4. When moxibustion is applied to human acupoints, human meridians and acupoints have self-regulating function. For example, diarrhea and constipation, two completely opposite pathological states, can be solved by moxibustion at Shu Tian point.
5. After moxibustion, there will be heat-sensitive conduction at meridian points. Penetration of heat, expansion of heat, heat transfer, remote heat which is not hot locally, deep heat which is not hot on the surface, etc. Or other non-hot feelings: acid, swelling, pressure, weight, pain, numbness, cold and so on. When moxibustion is applied or far away from the moxibustion site.
Can moxibustion lose weight?
The most important thing to lose weight is persistence, no matter what method you use. You can't get fat in one bite, and of course you can't lose weight instantly. As long as you insist on moxibustion, it will have an effect, and the effect will often be unexpected.
Acupoints:
Dazhui
Subspinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra.
Clearing heat and cooling blood, diminishing inflammation and detoxicating have obvious curative effects on facial diseases caused by blood dryness, blood stasis, obstruction of collaterals or blood viscosity.
Yaoyangguan
Subspinous process of the fourth lumbar vertebra.
Gynecological menstrual disorders, endocrine disorders, arm hypertrophy, male impotence, nocturnal emission, etc.
Zhongwan
Four inches above the umbilicus on the anterior midline of the upper abdomen.
Can enhance the digestion and absorption of food in the stomach, and can also treat stomachache, gastric acid, vomiting, etc.
Guanyuan
Three inches below the navel.
It has the effects of strengthening body constitution and health care, enhancing the elasticity of abdominal muscle fibers, regulating female endocrine balance, and treating irregular menstruation, excessive leucorrhea, infertility, etc.
Use moxibustion instrument or moxa stick to act on the above points, and the moxibustion time is 15-30 minutes/time? Once a day or every other day? 10 times is a course of treatment.
Matters needing attention in losing weight by moxibustion
1. Keep calm before moxibustion. After great anger, great joy and great sorrow, it is not appropriate to moxibustion immediately.
2. After moxibustion, you should be optimistic and cheerful, carefully nursed back to health, abstain from prostitution, don't be overworked, and be light and vegetarian, which will help the curative effect.
3. Be patient with moxibustion, don't rush for success, moxibustion takes a long time, and you must have the confidence to persist for a long time in order to receive unexpected results. We must persevere in medical care.
4. Moxibustion can be done in the morning and afternoon, and there is no need to avoid food on sunny days. Moxibustion is better for insomnia at night.
5. There is generally no adverse reaction of moxibustion. However, due to different constitutions and symptoms, there may be reactions such as fever, fatigue, dry mouth and general discomfort when moxibustion is started. Generally, it will disappear if moxibustion continues.
6. Drinking a cup of warm water before and after moxibustion is beneficial to detoxification after moxibustion.