What is the difference between dog days moxibustion and moxibustion?

There is no difference between dog days moxibustion and moxibustion. Dog days moxibustion is a kind of moxibustion.

Dog days moxibustion is a method to treat diseases by moxibustion in dog days, which is a combination of traditional Chinese medicine time medicine, acupuncture and external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. As early as the early Qing Dynasty, it was recorded in Zhang Lu's Zhang Yitong that white mustard seed was used to prevent the recurrence of asthma in summer.

Dog days moxibustion is the most distinctive dog days health care therapy in traditional Chinese medicine, which is similar to modern preventive medicine. The specific way is to use the highest dog days in Yang Qi in a year, and stick Chinese medicine on the corresponding acupoints according to the diseases to be prevented, so as to achieve the effect of moxibustion treatment.

There are strict regulations on the time of dog days moxibustion, that is, the first, middle and last three days. "Sanfu" refers to three lunar holidays. According to ancient medical books, Fu Ri must belong to Geng, and Geng belongs to gold, which matches the lungs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold comes and summer goes, and the time sequence changes, which has a lot to do with the human body. Neijing suggested that "nourishing yang in spring and summer" can prevent the occurrence of winter diseases. Asthma, allergic rhinitis and people who are weak and easy to catch a cold all belong to diseases of lung meridian.

Moxibustion, a kind of moxibustion method in acupuncture therapy of traditional Chinese medicine, is a natural therapy that ignites moxa cones and moxa sticks made of folium Artemisiae Argyi, and fumigates human acupuncture points to achieve health care treatment. The application of moxibustion originated from the use of fire after human mastery, and the time was also in the Stone Age.

Moxibustion originated in ancient China, because its mechanism of action is similar to acupuncture therapy, and it has a complementary therapeutic effect with acupuncture therapy. Acupuncture is usually used together, so it is called acupuncture.

It is a therapeutic method that moxa heat produced by moxibustion material made of moxa leaves stimulates acupuncture points or specific parts on the body surface, and regulates the physiological and biochemical functions of human disorder by stimulating menstrual activities, thus achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. The relationship between the two, to put it bluntly, is that dog days moxibustion is moxibustion in the dog days solar terms.