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Benefits of moxibustion in mild and cold seasons

During the Grain Rain season, rain breeds hundreds of valleys. This time is not only the season of sowing, but also a good time for health preservation. Doing these things well has always been accompanied by eliminating dampness and reducing fire.

During Grain Rain, the temperature was high and the rain was frequent. The key of sun moxibustion is reducing fire, eliminating dampness and strengthening spleen.

In particular, modern people often stay up late, eat cold food and blow more cold air, which makes their life and work too stressful. Most of them belong to people with excessive internal fire and damp and hot spleen and stomach. Grain Rain needs to strengthen the spleen and stomach.

Five internal organs descending five fires

Fire has different manifestations in different organs in the body, and it needs to be adjusted according to its latent position when reducing fire.

If it is a virtual fire, the best conditioning method is moxibustion to tonify kidney yin. Insufficient kidney water, deficiency fire rises, kidney yin is repaired, and deficiency fire naturally disappears. Commonly used acupoints are Taichong, Xingjian, Taixi and Gu Ran.

If it is excess fire, we should choose the method to eliminate excess fire according to the position of viscera.

1, Qingxinhuo point, Xiaohai point, Quze point

2. Qingfei Fire Point, Chize Point and Yuji Point

3, Changqing stomach fire Quchi point Hegu point Neiting point

4. Qinggan Huoxue Point Yanglingquan Point Xingjian Point Taichong Point

The above methods of eliminating virtual fire or real fire can cooperate with Yongquan point to ignite the fire downward.

Conditioning the spleen and stomach, charging to welcome summer

In summer, the yang is floating on the body surface, and the spleen and stomach are weak. In order to spend the hot summer safely, the spleen and stomach should be well conditioned and recharged to meet the summer season in Grain Rain.

In moxibustion, Zusanli, Fenglong, Zhongwan and Quchi are the best acupoints, and the effect is better if you soak your feet with mugwort leaves.

In addition, you can drink Jianpi tea, Grain Rain black tea, jujube tea and so on. Eliminating dampness, invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach.

Grain Rain moxibustion, catching the healthy little tail in spring.

After Grain Rain, summer is coming. At this time, moxibustion should be used to catch the tail of spring health preservation, so as to lay a good foundation for not being tortured by "bitter summer".

Grasp the good opportunity of solar moxibustion in Grain Rain, enjoy the benefits of spring health preservation, and act immediately, which is now.