What are the types of commonly used moxibustion methods

The three main types are moxa cone moxibustion, moxa stick moxibustion and warm moxibustion.

● moxa cone moxibustion

Cone moxibustion is a method of moxibustion with moxa fluff pinched into a cone and ignited. Also known as "moxa ball", "moxa pill", "moxa round" and other names. In ancient times, moxa cone moxibustion was the most popular. Generally, moxa pillars can be divided into three types: large, medium and small. Large as the size of a broad bean, in the size of a soybean, small for the size of a grain of wheat, all for the upper tip of the lower large cone, easy to put and ignite. Standard moxa cones have a diameter of 0.8 centimeters, a height of 1.0 centimeters, and a weight of about 0.1 grams, and can burn for 3-5 minutes.

The moxa cone moxibustion is divided into two kinds of direct moxibustion and indirect moxibustion.

Direct moxibustion, also known as moxibustion, skin moxibustion. It is a method of applying moxa cones directly on the skin. In ancient times, it was called "moxibustion with flesh", such as "Thousand Golden Essentials" records: "cones to make flat and flesh, or potential and even the disease also." Because of the direct moxibustion on the skin of different degrees of irritation, but also divided into scar moxibustion and no scar moxibustion.

Indirect moxibustion is a method of applying moxibustion between the skin and the cones of moxa cones on some kind of object. Also known as "spacer moxibustion" "spacer moxibustion". In ancient times, there were many types of indirect moxibustion, which was widely used in internal, external, gynecology, pediatrics, and various diseases of the five senses.

● Stick moxibustion

Stick moxibustion is also known as moxa roll moxibustion. It is a method of moxibustion with one end of the moxa stick burning. The earliest in the Ming Dynasty Zhu Quan wrote "Shouwu Shen Fang" cloud: "with paper real roll of moxa, a paper point of separation, and separation of the paper on the force of the real press, to be hot inside the abdomen, sweat that is poor." Moxa moxibustion can be divided into hanging up moxibustion, real press moxibustion, spacer moxibustion three kinds.

(1). Hanging moxibustion is a kind of moxibustion method in which the ignited moxa sticks are suspended above the moxibustion site. The general fire from the skin about 3 centimeters, moxibustion 5-10 minutes, but the skin and warm feeling without burning the skin. Operation method, divided into mild moxibustion, gyratory moxibustion, bird pecking moxibustion three methods.

(2). Real press moxibustion apply the drug moxa point and then, padded with paper or cloth, hot press to the acupoints, so that the heat penetrates to the deep tissue of a method of moxibustion.

(3). Moxibustion is in the acupoints or parts covered with certain objects, the moxa will be ignited after hanging moxibustion isolation of a moxibustion method, commonly used in the walnut shell moxibustion and the toad skin moxibustion.

● Warm moxibustion

Warm moxibustion can be divided into warm moxibustion device moxibustion, steam moxibustion and store moxibustion, etc. because of the different methods of operation.

(1). Moxibustion device moxibustion, also known as moxibustion therapeutic device, the use of metal special cylindrical moxibustion device, so also known as warm tube moxibustion. In our country has a long history, the oldest moxibustion device is to some kind of object to replace. Such as "after the elbow to prepare for the emergency prescription" recorded in the tile cauldron instead of moxibustion, "Qianjin Yaofang" in the reed pipe instead of moxibustion.

(2). Steam moxibustion, moxa leaves or moxa floss are put into a container and decocted, and moxibustion is done with steam.

(3). Paving moxibustion, a moxibustion method in which moxa floss is paved over acupoints and moxibustion is applied.

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