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To lose weight, is moxibustion good? Can moxibustion only be used in painful or uncomfortable places?
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.

Moxibustion stimulates acupoints, adjusts the functional balance of meridians, qi, blood and viscera, promotes gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduces fat absorption, increases its excretion, and achieves slimming effect.

Weight-reducing acupoint

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.

Relaxing moxibustion therapy

Operation: Use moxibustion instrument or moxa stick to act on the above points. Moxibustion time: 15-30 minutes/time, once a day or every other day, 10 times is a course of treatment.