Chinese medicine believes that people get sick mainly because of the imbalance of yin and yang and the impassability of meridians. The heat generated by burning moxa sticks will penetrate deep into the skin and reach the inner layer, resulting in the phenomenon of sensation transmission and menstruation. Driven by strong heat flow, qi and blood will break through the stagnation point, so that qi can reach the affected area, thus achieving the function of eliminating disease and protecting health.
Insomnia symptoms often appear after moxibustion. If insomnia occurs after the first moxibustion, it is also a reaction. At this time, insomnia is mostly fatigue or lethargy. But after a period of moxibustion, if there is little sleep at this time, there will be no fatigue and weakness, but will be full of energy because of moxibustion.
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The picking season of mugwort leaves must be chosen around the Dragon Boat Festival every year, so there is an old saying: the grass grows thick during the Dragon Boat Festival, and the wild mugwort leaves are light. This season is the most vigorous growth period of wormwood, and experienced herb gatherers will take wormwood leaves that look like people.
Or crush the wormwood you see with your feet a few days before picking, and only pick the wormwood leaves that can stand up when picking, so that the vitality of wormwood is very strong, and the therapeutic effect of wormwood made from it is also strong enough.
Three-way texturing is the most important in the whole process. In ancient times, first, the superior mugwort leaves and plant ash were mixed with water to make a paste, then the mugwort leaves paste was made into cakes, dried and sealed. When in use, a piece of cake is taken out, rubbed repeatedly with both hands, the gray stalks are sieved and rubbed repeatedly to form cotton-wool moxa. Hand-made velvet is lively, so this method was used in the past.
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Baidu encyclopedia-moxibustion