What is moxibustion therapy?
Moxibustion therapy, referred to as moxibustion for short, is a therapeutic method to prevent and treat diseases by burning and heating acupuncture points on the body surface with moxa or other drugs and conducting them through meridians.
Slimming principle 1, moxibustion produces heat first: 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. Slimming point 1, Dazhui:
Location: Under the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra.
Indications: It is effective for facial diseases caused by blood dryness, blood stasis, obstruction of collaterals or blood viscosity.
2. Yaoyangguan:
Location: Below the spinous process of the fourth lumbar vertebra.
Indications: endocrine disorders, arm hypertrophy, male impotence, nocturnal emission, etc.
3. Middle Bay:
Positioning: the median line of the upper abdomen, four inches above the umbilicus.
Indications: It can enhance the digestion and absorption of food in the stomach, and can also treat stomachache, gastric acid and vomiting.
4. Guan Yuan:
Location: three inches below the umbilicus.
Enhance the elasticity of abdominal muscle fibers.
5, home:
Positioning: On the hip joint, when the anterior superior spine of the hip joint is located at the midpoint of the convex line of the greater trochanter of femur.
Indications: promote deep fat metabolism of arms and thighs and improve muscle fiber vitality.
Moxibustion therapy thin waist Moxibustion therapy has two sets of prescriptions to remove waist fat. The first group of acupoints are Sanyinjiao, Zhangmen, Shu Tian and Daheng; The second group of acupoints are Taixi, Sanjiao and Qihai. In practical application, two groups of prescriptions can be alternately moxibustion. The specific operation method is as follows: after the moxa stick is lit, moxibustion is applied at a distance of about 2 cm from the acupoints, and each acupoint is moxibustion for 10~ 15 minutes, and moxibustion for 1 time every day, and 10 times is a course of treatment, with a rest of 2~3 days between courses. Massage the waist meridians and acupoints can not only promote local blood circulation, but also regulate the function of viscera, making the whole body strong, the skin smooth and the body strong. The specific steps are as follows: hands are folded, palms are pressed and kneaded up and down on both sides of the waist, sacrococcygeal region and buttocks for 2 minutes, then the palm roots of both hands are placed on both sides of the lumbar spine, and the other four fingers are attached to the waist, and the palm roots are pushed outward to the axillary midline, and the operation is repeated for 2 minutes, and then the first lateral line of the solar bladder meridian is rubbed with one thenar, starting from Baihuan point and ending at Sanjiao point. Fold your palms, press Mingmen and Yaoyangguan points with the root of your palms for half a minute, then place the thumb ends of your hands at the kidney points on both sides of the lumbar spine, tilt inward and press 1 minute, then press the waist eye on one side of the waist with the tip of your elbow for half a minute, then press the opposite waist eye, and press Qi Hai with your thumb. Female friends can lie in bed before going to bed at night and pat their left and right waist gently 100 times or more. The meridians of the human body run vertically up and down, and only the veins circulate horizontally, just like a belt around the waist. Taking pulse regularly can not only reduce waist fat, but also cure many gynecological diseases.