What is moxibustion in winter and when is it best?

In fact, regarding time, moxibustion has no special fixed time. You can moxibustion at any time. Before and after meals, once in the morning and once in the evening, as long as you are not too hungry before meals, you can moxibustion for half an hour to an hour after meals, and you can't moxibustion if you are too full and hungry.

In terms of solar terms, moxibustion pays attention to solar terms moxibustion, because solar terms are the time when yin and yang alternate, and moxibustion will get twice the result with half the effort at this time. Traditional Chinese medicine health care talks about winter diseases and summer solstice, which means that winter diseases should be traced back to summer, and diseases falling in summer should be recuperated from summer. Winter solstice is the time when "one yang rises" in a year, which is most suitable for moxibustion to replenish yang.

Seasonally speaking, winter is the coldest time for human body and the weakest season for human body's yang. If you don't pay attention to nursed back to health at this time, many diseases will be caused by insufficient yang, so winter moxibustion is particularly important for people with cold constitution.

If it is moxibustion according to the course of treatment, it is best to continue moxibustion every day for the first three times, and each acupoint lasts 15-20 minutes, and then moxibustion every other day 10 days is a course of treatment. Children and the elderly need shorter moxibustion time.

Generally speaking, the health care method of moxibustion is more flexible, and the time of moxibustion can be selected according to your actual situation and comfort. Under normal circumstances, the time of moxa stick moxibustion can be shorter, and the time of moxa stick or moxibustion can be longer, because moxibustion is milder.

You can moxibustion some health-care acupoints of the human body: Zhongwan, Shenque, Mingmen, Shenshu, Qihai, Guanyuan and Zusanli. If you can't find specific acupoints, it is better to moxibustion your waist and abdomen often. (From Moxibustion Encyclopedia)