Is mud moxibustion best for the back or the stomach? Whether it is applied to the back or stomach, mud moxibustion has great benefits, mainly depending on which part of the problem you want to treat, as follows:
Benefits of back mud moxibustion: Back mud moxibustion can prevent gynecological diseases. Cold back in autumn and winter is more likely to cause pain, and visceral cold will cause gynecological diseases. Back mud moxibustion can prevent gynecological problems.
Back mud moxibustion can also promote detoxification, and bladder meridian is the largest detoxification channel for human body. Mud moxibustion of bladder meridian can dispel cold, damp and toxic gas, relieve neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, improve patients' sleep quality and relax patients' mood. Mud moxibustion on the back can also drive away cold and lose weight, and the back is easy to accumulate cold and appear fat. Back mud moxibustion can accelerate blood circulation, promote blood circulation and eliminate fat.
The advantages of mud moxibustion on the stomach are: eliminating dampness and detoxifying, warming meridians and dispelling cold. Mud moxibustion also has the effects of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Mud moxibustion treats diseases by stimulating points in the stomach. Mud moxibustion is a kind of therapy to treat diseases through the warm stimulation of drugs on human acupuncture points. It has the functions of raising local blood temperature, promoting local cell metabolism, promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis, helping inflammation dissipate and improving human immunity.
Mud moxibustion can be completed within 24 hours at the best time of the day. Under the condition of not affecting the rest, the time of each treatment should be controlled at about 20 minutes, and the time should not be too long or too short, so as to ensure that the heat and drug components can fully penetrate the skin surface and then slowly enter the body to play a role. If some people have sensitive skin, it is necessary to minimize the frequency and time of use, and the temperature should not be too high, otherwise it will easily burn the skin. After the completion of mud moxibustion, appropriate nutrition and water should be added.
How often do you do mud moxibustion? It is generally recommended to do it once or twice a week, not every day, because in this process, heat will be released continuously, and pharmaceutical ingredients will enter the human body through pores and acupoints, which may be harmful to the body for a long time, so don't do it often. Mud moxibustion can be done in many places, or you can buy products to do at home. Be sure to keep warm before and after and drink plenty of water.