Moxibustion in dog days is the right time to treat winter diseases in summer.

Moxibustion is a unique traditional Chinese medicine therapy, which can be used all year round, with dog days and three or nine days being the most suitable. July 11th is coming, and Chinese medicine pays attention to treating winter diseases in summer. The dog days are the period when human blood runs full and qi and blood are more vigorous than usual, so it is very beneficial to absorb yang, nourish the body and consolidate the foundation, which is beneficial to drug absorption. Today, I'll take you to know about past lives who has moxibustion, and how to keep in good health through moxibustion!

previous life: wormwood

wormwood is an ancient and magical medicine commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. In China, wormwood is rich in resources and has a long medicinal history, which is closely related to people's life in China.

1. Distribution: widely distributed throughout the country, and distributed in Northeast China, North China, East China, South China, Southwest China, Shaanxi and Gansu. It is called "Ai Ai" to win with Qizhou (now Qichun County, Hubei Province). "Biography of Artemisia argyi" records: "Artemisia argyi, produced in Shanyang, used the Dragon Boat Festival to treat moxibustion diseases, which contributed a lot."

2. smell: the plant has a strong aroma.

3. The best picking time: Dragon Boat Festival.

4. Folk usage:

① On the occasion of Dragon Boat Festival, people put wormwood at home or hang it on doors and windows, which can "smell and avoid filth" and drive away mosquitoes.

② Bathing or fumigation with wormwood boiling water can disinfect and relieve itching.

③ Folium Artemisiae Argyi is also a good medicine and food product, which can be made into recipes such as Folium Artemisiae Argyi tea, Folium Artemisiae Argyi soup, Folium Artemisiae Argyi porridge, and Folium Artemisiae Argyi Ciba, so as to enhance the human body's ability to resist diseases.

5. nature and efficacy of wormwood:

wormwood is bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the spleen, liver and kidney. Compendium of Materia Medica records that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is used as medicine, which is warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic, pure in yang, and has the functions of dredging meridians, regulating qi and blood, expelling dampness and cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage, strengthening body resistance and eliminating evil.

With the continuous expansion of medical field, the use of Folium Artemisiae Argyi will be more and more extensive.

This Life: Modern Use of Moxibustion

1. Moxibustion: Igniting moxa cone, so that the generated moxa heat can stimulate acupuncture points or specific parts of human body, and adjust the physiological and biochemical functions of human body disorder by stimulating the activity of meridian qi, thus achieving the purpose of preventing diseases and treating diseases.

Moxibustion: lasting for the first time, and burning for the second time. The key point is to use moxa to stimulate for a long time, and persistence is the most important thing.

2. Therapeutic effect of moxibustion: lasting warming effect and medicinal effect of wormwood.

3. Moxibustion treatment

① Moxibustion with moxa sticks

The most commonly used method in clinic is to ignite moxa sticks and put them on acupoints or diseased parts for fumigation and burning, or to add Xin Wen Fang Xiang medicine into moxa sticks to make medicinal moxa sticks.

② wheat moxibustion: moxa is made into a moxa cone the size of a wheat grain, applied with activating collateral oil and fixed, and the incense is ignited, allowing it to spontaneously ignite. Moxibustion can be done in 2 3 degrees. Suitable for all kinds of pain and unconsciousness.

③ ginger moxibustion

Cut ginger into .2.3cm thick slices, and then puncture several holes with a needle. When applying moxibustion, put ginger slices on acupoints, put large or medium moxa cones on them and light them. When the patient has a local burning sensation, lift the ginger slices briefly, or change the moxa cone and moxibustion again. Generally, moxibustion is 6 9 feet each time, and the degree is that the skin is flushed locally and does not blister.

④ Salt-separated moxibustion

Fill the navel with pure and dry salt, put the moxa cone on the salt, and light it. Generally, moxibustion lasts for 6 9 times. Because this method is only used for navel, it is also called Shenque moxibustion.

4. indications of moxibustion

① various diseases caused by stagnation of blood due to cold and obstruction of meridians, such as wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain.

② Exogenous wind-cold exterior syndrome, deficiency-cold in middle energizer, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc.

③ Deficiency of spleen and kidney yang and sudden loss of vitality, such as chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery, enuresis, nocturnal emission, impotence, premature ejaculation, collapse and shock.

④ Deficiency of qi and sagging of organs, such as gastroptosis, nephroptosis, uterine prolapse, proctoptosis and prolonged metrorrhagia.

5. contraindications of moxibustion treatment

① it is not suitable for moxibustion treatment in the case of hunger, satiety, heavy drinking, great thirst, sweating, excessive emotional excitement and extreme fatigue.

② Patients with organic heart disease with cardiac insufficiency and schizophrenia should not be treated with moxibustion.

③ The syndrome of excess heat or fever due to yin deficiency within the scope of traditional Chinese medicine should be specifically differentiated under the guidance of professional doctors.

Author: Zhang Xiyuan, Chinese Medicine Department