Can moxibustion remove dampness?

Moxibustion can remove dampness.

Moxibustion, moxibustion in Chinese acupuncture therapy, is made of moxa leaves moxibustion material produced by the heat of moxa to stimulate the surface of the body acupuncture points or specific parts of the body through the stimulation of meridian qi activity to adjust the human body disorders of physiological and biochemical functions, so as to achieve the purpose of prevention and treatment of a therapeutic method.

The use of moxibustion when the origin of human mastery of fire, time also in the Stone Age.

Moxibustion was produced in ancient China, because of its mechanism of action and needle therapy has a similar place, and with the needle therapy has a complementary therapeutic effect, usually needles, moxibustion and use, so called acupuncture and moxibustion.

Acupuncture and moxibustion have a far-reaching influence at home and abroad, but modern people say moxibustion, most of the time only refers to needle therapy, has rarely included the content of moxibustion.

Expanded Information:

Moxibustion has been used for more than 2,000 years in our country. The therapeutic effect of moxibustion has been confirmed by countless clinical practices. But the understanding of its mechanism is still an unsolved mystery. At this stage, it is believed that the mechanism of moxibustion therapy is related to the following five aspects.

Local stimulation

Moxibustion therapy is a kind of basic specific parts of the human body through the moxa fire stimulation in order to achieve the purpose of preventing and curing the disease of the therapeutic method, the mechanism of the first with the local fire warmth stimulation.

It is this warm stimulation that makes the local skin congested, capillary dilatation, enhances the local blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, relieves and eliminates smooth muscle spasm, strengthens the metabolism of the local skin tissues and promotes the dissipation and absorption of pathological products such as inflammation, adhesion, exudate, hematoma, etc.; it also causes the diffusion of inhibitory substances of the cerebral cortex, reduces the excitability of the nervous system, and plays the role of sedative and analgesic effects; at the same time, the warm effect of moxa fire stimulation to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases, Analgesic effect; at the same time warmth can also promote the absorption of drugs.

Meridian regulation

Meridian theory is the important content of the motherland medicine, is also the theoretical basis of moxibustion therapy. People are a whole, the five viscera and organs, limbs and bones are coordinated with each other, this coordinated relationship, mainly by the regulation of the meridians to achieve. Modern research shows that meridian acupoints have three major characteristics:

1, meridian acupoints have external sensitivity to drugs that the same moxibustion method of selecting a certain acupoints and the general body surface points, its role is obviously different.

2, meridian acupoints on the role of drug amplification meridian is not a simple surface route, but multi-level, multi-functional, multi-morphology of the regulatory system. When moxibustion is applied to the acupoints, it affects their multi-level physiological functions, and in this cyclic induction process, they produce mutual excitation, synergy, and superimposed effects, resulting in physiological amplification effects.

3, meridian acupoints on the storage of drugs acupoints have the role of storing drugs, the physical and chemical effects of drugs longer stay in the acupoints or released to the whole body, resulting in the overall regulation of the disease can be cured.

Regulation of immunity

Many experiments have confirmed that moxibustion therapy has the effect of enhancing immune function. Many of the therapeutic effects of moxibustion therapy are also realized through the regulation of the body's immune function, which has the characteristic of two-way regulation, i.e., the low can be made to increase, and the high can be made to decrease, and in the pathological state, this regulation is more obvious.

Pharmacology

The medication of moxibustion therapy is not as rich as the internal treatment, but it can be seen from the clinical application of various kinds of spacer moxibustion and Taiyi and Thunder Fire Acupuncture and Moxibustion, and it can also be seen as one of the spots of the identification and treatment of moxibustion therapy. It is worth mentioning that moxibustion is the main raw material of moxa. Wu Yi Luo in the Qing Dynasty in the "Materia Medica from the new" said: "Ai leaves bitter and pungent, warm and ripe hot, pure Yang nature, can be back to the dying of the dead Yang, through the twelve meridians, go three yin, the qi and blood, expel the cold and dampness, warm the uterus, stopping all the blood, warming and open the depression, menstruation and fetus, ...... to the fire of the Ai, can be through the meridians and remove all diseases. "

Integrated role

Moxibustion therapy in the human body is mainly a comprehensive role, is a variety of factors interact with each other, complement each other, *** with the overall therapeutic effect of play.

First of all, moxibustion therapy treatment is comprehensive. Such as winter disease summer treatment, to white mustard and other drugs plastered danzhong, lung Yu, anastomosis treatment of asthma septic moxibustion, as well as the anti-aging points of the kidney Yu moxibustion with spacer cakes, etc., the way that includes local stimulation (local septic moxibustion, spacer moxibustion), meridian acupoints (specific selection of acupuncture points), the drug factors, they are organically linked with each other, and not a single arc, the lack of which is the loss of the original therapeutic effect.

Secondly, the therapeutic effect is comprehensive. Moxibustion therapy heat stimulation of local qi and blood adjustment, moxa fire stimulation with drugs, is bound to increase the efficacy of drugs, aromatic drugs in a warm environment is particularly easy to absorb, moxibustion applied to acupuncture points, the first stimulation of acupuncture points itself stimulate the meridian gas, mobilized the meridian function so that it better play the line of qi and blood and yin and yang of the overall role.

Third, the human body reactivity and therapeutic effect is integrated. Treatment means (moxibustion therapy) - the external cause can only work through the internal cause (human responsiveness), researchers have found that the same moxibustion therapy for patients suffering from the same disease, the sense of transmission is not the same, the efficacy of treatment is not the same, the reason for this is that the human body's responsiveness to the differences. The above factors, under the guidance of the overall concept of traditional Chinese medicine and identification of evidence-based treatment ideas, the clinical evidence for a reasonable choice, the flexible use of moxibustion therapy to play the maximum effectiveness.

Reference: