1. The principle of moxibustion to lose weight
1. Moxibustion generates heat: after the skin is heated, the pores expand, so that the medicine can quickly penetrate under the skin and reach 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 is combined with other traditional Chinese medicines except wormwood: After adding a variety of valuable Chinese herbal medicines to moxibustion materials, its medicinal components can quickly reach the focus, and under the action of heat and moxibustion force, it instantly plays the role of dredging meridians and activating 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.
2. Precautions for moxibustion
1, extreme fatigue, hunger, fullness, drunkenness, excessive sweating, emotional instability, or women should remember not to moxibustion during menstruation.
2. Pay attention to the accuracy of acupoints: the position should be suitable for the needs of moxibustion, and at the same time pay attention to the comfort and naturalness of posture, and identify the position and acupoints to ensure the effect of moxibustion.
3. Keep calm before moxibustion. After great anger, great joy and great sorrow, it is not appropriate to moxibustion immediately.
4. Avoid catching cold after moxibustion. Dressed neatly in autumn and winter, the sweat on my body disappeared before going out. After moxibustion in spring and summer, we should also pay attention to keeping warm. Don't take a bath on the day of moxibustion to avoid catching a cold.
5, before and after moxibustion, drink a cup of warm water, which is conducive to detoxification after moxibustion.
6, step by step, master the amount of the first stimulus, first a small amount, a small dose, a short time, and then increase the dose.
7, the use of moxibustion conditioning should be patient, do not rush to seek success, moxibustion for a long time, we must have the confidence to persist for a long time, so as to receive unexpected results.
3. Moxibustion to lose weight
1, hanging on the back: aim one end of the lighted moxa stick at the part that needs moxibustion, move it around 3 cm away from the skin in parallel, or repeatedly rotate moxibustion to make the skin feel warm but not burning until the skin turns red.
2. Hanging moxibustion: Also known as mild moxibustion, aim the lighted moxa stick at the part that needs moxibustion, and smoke moxibustion at the place 3-5 cm away from the skin, paying attention to the fixed position, so that the moxibustion part has a warm feeling until the skin is red.
3, sparrow peck: aim one end of the lighted moxa stick at the part that needs moxibustion, just like sparrow peck, moxibustion is carried out from top to bottom, and the distance between the burner and the skin is kept at 2-3 cm until the skin is red. Pay attention to the fall of moxa ash during moxibustion to avoid scalding the skin.
Moxibustion acupoints include: the great vertebra under the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra, the lumbar pass under the spinous process of the fourth lumbar vertebra, the midline of the upper abdomen, four inches above the umbilicus, three inches below the umbilicus and the position of the buttocks (when the anterior superior spinous process of the buttocks is located at the midpoint of the convex line of the greater trochanter of femur). Moxibustion is applied to the above points, 15-30 minutes/time, once a day or every other day, and 10 times is a course of treatment. Long-term persistence will certainly receive good results.
4. What is the function of moxibustion?
1, regulating immune function: Moxibustion can regulate human immune function, especially in pathological state.
2, disease prevention and health care: Moxibustion not only has therapeutic effect, but also has the function of disease prevention and health care.
3. Beauty function: Moxibustion can eliminate fatigue, restore vitality, replenish physical strength, balance yin and yang, nourish facial skin, dilute epidermal melanin, eliminate edema, bags under eyes and dark circles, effectively improve facial tiredness, make women's skin rosy and elastic, wrinkle-free and spot-free, make women healthy, keep young and radiant, and show female beauty from the inside out.