Summer moxibustion in solar terms

Introduction to Moxibustion in Twenty-four Solar Terms is a traditional method of moxibustion for disease prevention and health care in a specific festival, which typically embodies the prevention and treatment thought of "correspondence between man and nature and keeping pace with the times" in traditional Chinese medicine. Moxibustion with 24 solar terms regularly introduced by the Acupuncture Department of Chinese Medicine Hospital brings you a wealth of health care methods. Don't miss it!

? Summer solstice, also known as "Summer Festival" and "Summer Solstice Festival", is the earliest of the 24 solar terms. In the ancient summer solstice, people prayed for disaster and prosperity by offering sacrifices to God. For those of us who love Chinese medicine, the summer solstice has a special significance. The summer solstice solar term is the most prosperous time of the year. According to the theory of harmony between man and nature in traditional Chinese medicine, health preservation in summer should conform to the characteristics of solar terms and pay attention to protecting yang. At this time, "treating winter diseases in summer" is the most appropriate, and it is the best opportunity for the human body to lock out yang and drive out cold.

? The occurrence of summer sickness is due to the cold evil hidden in the body in winter and latent fever in summer. On the solstice of summer, the yang of the human body reaches its peak. At this time, the treatment of summer disease can better play its therapeutic role, effectively support yang to avoid cold, eliminate the root cause of winter disease, and make the yang in the body nourish and replenish, so that the external rheumatism and summer evil are not easily violated, thus blocking the pathogenesis and making the latent evil in winter unable to be triggered.

"Nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter", the ancients used moxibustion to strengthen the body and prevent diseases in festivals. Three-day patch and summer moxibustion solstice are the best methods to treat winter diseases in summer. After the summer solstice, it is a day when the yang is fading away and the yin is getting longer, and the alternation of yin and yang is so important. So how to maintain health in the summer solstice, what role does moxibustion play in the summer solstice, and which acupoints should be moxibustion?

? For our bodies, excessive heat and humidity will bring some damage to our health, and it is more difficult to balance the yang in our bodies with a little growing yin in summer solstice, so how to "protect yang and shun yin" has become the focus of health care in summer solstice. Chinese medicine believes that "summer heat is easy to hurt qi", because it is hot from summer solstice, the heat energy radiates outward and the interior is relatively cold. Moreover, we sweat a lot, and our pores are large, which makes us vulnerable to wind, cold and dampness. Moreover, the summer solstice is full of yin and qi. At this time, we should pay attention to warming the yang and benefiting qi to prevent moisture from invading the body, causing the body to get cold and ache.

? In addition, summer is connected with the heart, and sweating in summer is easy to relax the heart, while Chinese medicine has the saying that "sweat is the liquid of the heart", and a lot of sweating will consume our heart, so it is also important to regulate the heart in summer. However, wormwood itself has the functions of warming and nourishing, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. After being ignited, it can inject hot air into the body to drive away the cold evil lurking in the depths of the human body, thus making the human body full of yang. At the same time, the sun be the spirit saturation can also improve the heart loss caused by sweating, so that Yang Qi and the heart can be taken care of.

What are the functions of summer solstice moxibustion?

The health care effect of summer solstice moxibustion on human body is mainly realized through the following ways:

The first is to keep fit and ward off evil spirits.

Patients suffering from respiratory diseases such as physical weakness, allergic rhinitis, asthma, bronchitis and emphysema for a long time are often prone to get sick in winter. This is because these patients usually lack vital qi, and when the temperature is low in winter and the pathogenic factors are strong, the vital qi in the body is not enough to fight against the pathogenic factors. Therefore, it is advisable to treat symptoms in winter and relieve symptoms as much as possible. Summer is a good time to strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil spirits. At this time, there are few climatic factors affecting the onset, and the symptoms are relatively mild. At this time, strengthening the body's resistance and consolidating the foundation can improve the body's immune ability and better penetrate evil spirits.

The second is to nourish the spleen and stomach.

Spleen and stomach are the "acquired foundation" of human body. The digestive function of human body is directly related to the energy supply of human body. Spleen likes dryness and hates dampness, and dampness is the easiest to trap the spleen and affect our digestive function. Supplementing the spleen and stomach in summer can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and keep us away from abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea. In summer, yang is floating outside, overeating and cold can also cause many digestive system problems, such as stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc., so it is particularly important to protect the spleen and stomach in summer.

Thirdly, it is to help the yang to dispel the cold.

In winter, in addition to the high incidence of respiratory diseases, the incidence of another kind of diseases can not be underestimated, that is, yang deficiency syndrome and neck, shoulder, back and leg pain. Like respiratory diseases, when the cold is strong in winter, people feel the diseases caused by cold pathogens, which cannot be fundamentally eliminated in winter. Only in midsummer, when the human body is full of yang, can we better dispel the cold evil in the body. Summer solstice sun moxibustion is such a good way to stimulate menstruation and prevent diseases.

Acupoint recommendation of sun moxibustion in summer solstice

Dazhui point: between the 7th cervical vertebra and the 1 thoracic vertebra, it has the functions of expelling wind and cold, warming yang and clearing heart, calming heart and strengthening brain, relieving fatigue, strengthening body and improving cellular immunity.

Zhongwan point: Zhongwan point belongs to Ren meridian, located on the midline of abdomen, 4 inches above umbilicus. Has the effects of improving spleen and stomach function, promoting digestion and absorption, and enhancing human body resistance.

Guanyuan point: located at the midline of the abdomen, 3 inches below the umbilicus. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Guanyuan is the place where the true yang produces sperm. Moxibustion on Guanyuan point can make the clear yang rise, the turbid yin fall, the Yuanyang warm, the qi and blood full, the kidney tonify and strengthen, the qi replenish and yang restore, the chong and ren functions are regulated, and the qi is regulated and the blood is promoted.

Zusanli: It is located in the anterolateral part of the calf, 3 inches below the nose of the calf, and a horizontal finger from the front edge of the tibia. It has the effects of regulating spleen and stomach, strengthening spleen and strengthening yang, warming middle warmer and dispelling cold, invigorating middle warmer and benefiting qi, harmonizing qi and blood, dredging fu organs and lowering qi, tonifying deficiency and strengthening body.

? On the first day of the summer solstice, the yang spirit reaches its peak and the yin spirit begins to sprout. It is the time when the seasons alternate between yin and yang, and it is also the time when the elderly, the chronically ill, the infirm and other people aggravate their illness, induce persistent diseases and are prone to new diseases. Solar-term moxibustion selects acupoints that have an influence on the function of human viscera, and uses the medicinal hot gas generated by moxa burning to smoke, burn and warm the acupoints, thus stimulating the qi of meridians, warming qi and blood, regulating yin and yang, helping the human body adapt to the changes in nature, mobilizing the potential of the body to the maximum extent, adapting to the environment and resisting diseases, thus achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. People with yang deficiency and qi deficiency are more suitable for moxibustion therapy. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is warm and belongs to pure yang, which can warm meridians, dispel cold and dampness, and tonify human yang. Summer happens to be the peak of yang in nature, and the combination of yang and heat has a stronger warming effect. Therefore, moxibustion can achieve the best effect of radical cure of winter diseases when the sunshine is the most abundant in summer.

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