? Moxibustion, mainly using folium Artemisiae Argyi as raw material, is made into moxa sticks, and then made into moxa cones or moxa sticks for lighting. It directly or indirectly applies warm stimulation to human acupoints to stimulate and mobilize the inherent disease resistance of human body, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases and strengthening the body.
? There is a saying in Huangdi Neijing Lingshu Guan Zhen: "What acupuncture does not do is suitable for moxibustion ... Yin and Yang deficiency, and fire is suitable".
Two. The role of moxibustion
Moxibustion has a wide range of functions, which can be summarized as follows:
1. Warming meridians to relieve pain and harmonize qi and blood, the general principle is painless. Such as moxibustion along the meridian for stomach spasm, Zhiyang and Zusanli, and moxibustion along the meridian for various neuralgia.
2. Coordinate Yin and Yang to achieve the effect of tonifying deficiency and purging excess. For example, acupuncture combined with conditioning insomnia, drowsiness and other sleep disorders has a two-way regulating effect on endocrine glands.
3. Spleen and blood, stop bleeding:
Moxibustion can strengthen the spleen, which is the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and can make all kinds of bleeding and anemia return to normal, such as functional uterine bleeding and moxibustion hiding white.
4. dredging channels and removing blood stasis:
Moxibustion can promote blood circulation, thus accelerating the metabolism and absorption of pathological products such as inflammation, swelling and blood stasis, and promoting the repair of normal tissues, such as lumbar disc herniation, acupuncture-related ganglion segments and moderate, with rapid recovery and good long-term effect.
5. Raise yang to relieve depression, strengthen the body resistance and consolidate the foundation;
Uncle ling. Meridian: "It is diarrhea, deficiency is tonic, and depression is moxibustion." In application, such as drooping organs, you can moxibustion for one hundred times. "Tongren Acupuncture Classic" said: "The vitality will be lost, and there is still a little stomach gas in the six meridians. If life is suspended, life and death will be still. At this time, you can use unusual drug bait to save, and it must be qi, sea, abdomen and clear.
6. Draw fire back to Yuan and draw dragons into the sea:
Uncle ling. Twenty-five people of yin and yang: "those who have more qi than the upper one should be guided to the lower one." This is aimed at the common phenomena of congestion and dizziness in middle-aged and elderly people. You can moxibustion Shenque or Yongquan point.
7. Eliminate fatigue, prevent diseases and protect health:
Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, said in "Prepare a thousand dollars for emergency": "Anyone who travels to Wu Shu often needs moxibustion at two or three places. If the sore is not allowed to heal temporarily, the poisonous gas of warm malaria will not hurt people. " .
Moxibustion is one of its most important functions, but it has been buried in modern times. Bian Que's Heart Book, a sinus material in the Song Dynasty, pointed out: "When people are not sick, they often moxibustion Guanyuan, Qihai, Mingmen and Zhongwan ... Although they are not immortals, they can live for more than 100 years." Another example is that Zhang Hao in the Song Dynasty recorded in Medical Theory that "if you want peace, you can stay in Dantian. That is, there is no wind disease. " It is said that purulent moxibustion at Guanyuan point and Zusanli point can improve immune function, prevent diseases and strengthen the body. Mr. Cheng Dan 'an, a master of modern acupuncture, also attaches great importance to health care moxibustion. In his Journal of Acupuncture, he recorded the "Xianchuanshou Moxibustion Method": "At the beginning of each month, take Yongquan point together with moxibustion, and moxibustion every day in Shi Mao until the seventh day of each month, until Chen Shi. Ai Tuan is as big as a small lotus seed, and everyone knows that the pain will stop."
Commonly used health moxibustion points are:
A. Gao Yishu: Regulating lung and tonifying deficiency, strengthening Yang Qi.
B. damper: clearing away heat and relieving cough, and preventing colds and strokes.
C. Body column: Moxibustion is the focus of children's health care, which can dispel wind and spread lung, clear heart and benefit brain.
D Dazhui: relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold, clearing brain and calming nerves.
E. Zhongshan: Broadening the chest and regulating qi, relieving cough and asthma.
F. Shenque: Returning to Yang to strengthen the body, warming spleen and kidney, benefiting qi and prolonging life. For example, salt-separated moxibustion, 3-5 small steamed buns each time, once every other day, once a month 10 times. 9 pm is the best.
G. Qihai: Nourish vitality, tonify kidney and solidify essence.
H. Guanyuan: an important acupoint for health care of the elderly. Warming and nourishing vitality, harmonizing chong ren, and treating various asthenia.
First, Zusanli: cure all gastrointestinal diseases, prevent stroke and prolong life.
J. Yongquan: an important acupoint for health care of the elderly. Reinforce kidney and reduce fire, extinguish wind and enlighten.
8. Benefiting kidney and water:
Water-liquid metabolism mainly depends on the gasification function of kidney, bladder and triple energizer, while moxibustion at corresponding acupoints can improve renal function, warm yang and promote diuresis, and improve the properties of body fluid.
9. Prevention of stroke:
In the Tang Dynasty, Master Sun Simiao put forward seven points of moxibustion to prevent apoplexy: Baihui, Fengchi, Shoujing, Quchi, Shi Feng, Zusanli, Yanglingquan and Juegu. Yang Jizhou's Acupuncture and Moxibustion Masterpiece in the Ming Dynasty said, "But when there is no stroke, it will be solved for a long time one or two months ago, or three or four months ago."
Mechanism of action: There are corresponding experimental data. If you are interested, you can search by the following keywords, so I won't go into details.
1. Enhance the phagocytosis of reticuloendothelial system.
2. Adjust the body's immune function
Regulate blood pressure
4. Adjust endocrine level
5 Regulating lipid metabolism
6. Anti-aging
4. Moxibustion method
Moxibustion is generally made of moxa into a tower, which contains barley grains, jujube kernels and five sons. With or without ginger slices and medicated cakes, put them on acupoints and light them with incense. Moxibustion is mostly used for hanging moxibustion, moxibustion along meridians, thunder and fire needles, etc. It is actually a method of hot compress with moxa sticks. Warm acupuncture and warm moxibustion are more commonly used in modern times.
? According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the order of moxibustion treatment is generally moxibustion on the upper part first, and then moxibustion on the lower part; Moxibustion on the back first, then moxibustion on the abdomen; Moxibustion on head and body first, then moxibustion on limbs; First moxibustion on the left side, then moxibustion on the right side.
4. The new patent gourd medicinal moxibustion:
? With the development of science and technology, ancient Chinese medicine also glows with youthful brilliance. Various moxibustion tools have developed rapidly, improving efficiency. But in general, it is still the most authentic way to use moxa as raw material and ignite it with open fire, and the curative effect is positive. This is also the unchangeable academic knowledge of the two core elements of moxibustion, namely, the thermal radiation of open flame and the medicinal function of volatile oil from Artemisia argyi. Gourd medicinal moxibustion is characterized by special medicine for diseases.
Sun Yuan Studio of Dazhong Temple: Mainly engaged in visual and brain care for adults and students, traditional Chinese medicine characteristic manipulation for rhinitis, acupuncture and beauty, characteristic collateral dredging moxibustion, health care moxibustion, gourd moxibustion and other moxibustion methods. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from 2 pm to 6 pm. Need to make an appointment.
Brief introduction of Dr. Wang: He graduated from Acupuncture and Massage Department of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and studied under many famous doctors such as Han Biying and Liu from Guang 'anmen Chinese Medicine Hospital. After graduation, I worked in the acupuncture department of Haidian Chinese Medicine Hospital for eleven years, consulting fifty or sixty people every day. During this period, I have been constantly learning professional knowledge, skillfully applying special therapies such as fire needle, Dong Shi strange point, bloodletting and auricular point beans, and I am also addicted to various moxibustion methods. I have rich practical experience, and have outstanding curative effect on common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases.