What are the traditional physical therapy modalities

Moxibustion, cupping therapy and gua sha therapy.

I, moxibustion

Moxibustion refers to the use of certain burning materials, in the body surface of the acupuncture points on the smoldering or warm ironing, through the heat of the moxibustion fire as well as the role of drugs, to achieve the effect of warming and dispersal of cold, supporting the Yang fixed off, eliminating blood stasis, preventing health care." The material of moxibustion is mainly moxa leaves, which is aromatic, pungent, bitter, easy to burn and has a mild fire. There are many kinds of moxibustion, and here we mainly introduce indirect moxibustion, hanging moxibustion and three-volt moxibustion.

1, indirect moxibustion

Indirect moxibustion, also known as spacer moxibustion, that is, moxa pinched, tightly tapered conical cones, moxibustion cones and the skin between the spacer and some kind of pads on the moxibustion of a method of implementation of moxibustion.

2, hanging moxibustion

Hanging moxibustion that is the use of moxa, the end of the ignition, and acupuncture points or the affected area to maintain a certain distance from a method of moxibustion. Such as mild moxibustion, the end of the moxa stick will be ignited, in the acupoints or the affected area, about 2~3cm from the skin to smoke, local warmth without burning pain, skin redness is appropriate. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing, and that you have a good understanding of what you are doing, and that you have a good understanding of what you are doing, and that you have a good understanding of what you are doing. Instead, it is applied like a bird pecking, up and down. In the case of gyratory moxibustion, the end of the moxa stick is kept at a certain distance from the skin of the moxibustion site, but it is not fixed, and it is moved from side to side or gyratory moxibustion.

3, three-volt moxibustion

Three-volt day is the summer solstice after the third and fourth g day, the first g day after the fall. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the use of three days of heat climate, in the human body on specific acupuncture points to apply to the warmth of the Xin, go tunnels, through the meridian of the drug, the use of drugs on the Yang Qi dredging, so that the human body's yang qi get the help of the day sun, to be able to warm yang Li Qi, dispersal of the internal ambush of cold, thereby increasing the body's ability to resist disease, prevent the recurrence of old diseases. Municipal People's Hospital of Chinese medicine commonly used in three-volt moxibustion drugs are white mustard, cinnamon, fine Xin, Gan Sui, ginger juice, etc., will be made into about 1.2 × 1.2 × 0.5 cm cake, fixed with tape in the corresponding acupuncture points for 2 to 5 hours. The department has been carrying out this program for many years, and achieved good clinical results.

A few points should be noted when applying moxibustion: facial acupuncture points, nipples, large blood vessels should not use direct moxibustion to avoid burns and scar formation; fasting, overfeeding, overfatigue should not be applied moxibustion; weak patients can not be too large amount of moxibustion, can not be too long, the amount of stimulation can not be too large; pregnant women's abdomen and lumbar-sacral area should not be applied moxibustion; moxibustion should be prevented from localized burns.

Two, cupping therapy

Cupping has the effect of activating the meridians and channels, promoting qi and blood circulation, reducing swelling and pain, dispelling wind and cold. It is suitable for rheumatism paralysis, various nerve paralysis, and some acute and chronic pain. There are many kinds of cupping, commonly used in clinical glass jar flash fire method. That is, with tweezers clamp 95% of the ethanol cotton balls, ignited in the can around 1 ~ 3 circles and then withdrawn, and quickly buckle the can in the parts that should be drawn.

Clinical commonly used cupping method has the following kinds:

1, stay in the can after cupping the canister suction stay in the treatment site 10-15 minutes, and then remove the canister, this method is more commonly used.

2, walking can also known as push can. Generally used for larger, more muscular places, such as the waist and back, thighs and so on.