How to do moxibustion

Mild moxibustion

Moxibustion will be applied when the end of the moxa stick will be ignited, aligned with the acupoints should be moxibustion parts or the affected area, about 1.5-3 centimeters away from the skin, smoked. Smoke so that the patient local warm feeling without burning pain is appropriate, generally 5-7 minutes per moxibustion, until the skin redness to the degree.

For fainting, the local perception of the patient, the doctor can be in the middle, the index finger separation, placed on both sides of the moxibustion site, so that the doctor's fingers can be felt to measure the patient's local degree of heat, in order to adjust the distance of moxibustion at any time and to prevent burns.

Bird pecking moxibustion

When moxibustion is performed, the lit end of the moxa stick and the skin of the moxibustion site are not fixed at a certain distance, but like a bird pecking, up and down the moxibustion activities. Alternatively, it can be moved evenly up and down or to the left and right directions, or repeatedly applied to the turn of the moxibustion.

Rotary moxibustion

At a distance of about 1.5-3 centimeters from the skin, the moxa stick is rotated clockwise or counterclockwise on the skin.

Expanded information:

Mugwort has a close relationship with the Chinese people's lives, and every Dragon Boat Festival, people always put the mugwort in their homes in order to "ward off the evil spirits", and after the drying of the After drying, the plant is soaked in water and fumigated to disinfect and relieve itching, and women in labor are often bathed or fumigated with moxa water.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" in addition to the records of "Artemisia absinthium" and "White Ai", but also recorded "Herb Ai" (produced in Herb State, now Hubei Province, Herb Chun County, Salary State Town), can be used as medicine. This is a cultivar of cv. qiai, and the original species (wild species) of the difference is: cultivated plants are tall, 150-250 cm high, strong aroma; leaves thick papery, hairy dense and thick, the middle leaves pinnately lobed, the upper leaves are usually not divided, elliptic or long elliptic, the longest up to 7-8 cm, 1.5 cm wide, the leaves rubbed often into cotton wool; medicine, warm, bitter, pungent and slightly sweet. The leaves are used in medicine, which is warm, bitter, pungent, and slightly sweet in nature.

For "stop bleeding medicine", and is one of the common gynecological drugs, treatment of cold gynecological disorders is particularly good, and treatment of chronic bronchitis and asthma in the elderly, boiled water bath can be used to prevent and control puerperal infections of mothers and children, or pharmaceutical pillows, pharmaceutical undershirts to prevent and control chronic bronchitis or asthma in the elderly and chilled stomach pains, etc.; moxa leaves dried and pounded to get The leaves of mugwort are dried and crushed to obtain "moxa velvet", which is used to make moxa sticks for moxibustion and can be used as raw material for "sealing mud". In addition, the whole plant is used as insecticide pesticide or fumigation smoke for room disinfection, insecticide. The young shoots and seedlings are used as vegetables.

Mugwort is bitter, pungent, warm, into the spleen, liver, kidney. The Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Ai to leaf medicine, warm, bitter taste, non-toxic, pure Yang nature, through the twelve meridians, with Yang, qi and blood, the wet and cold, stopping bleeding and fetal efficacy, but also commonly used in acupuncture. Therefore, it is also known as "medical grass", Taiwan is popular "herbal bath", most of which is the use of mugwort. On the performance of mugwort leaves, "Materia Medica": "Mugwort leaves can moxibustion of all diseases." "Materia Medica from the new" said: "Mugwort leaves bitter and pungent, raw temperature, cooked hot, pure Yang nature, can back to the dying of the Yang, through the twelve meridians, go three yin, the qi and blood, the cold and damp, warm the uterus ...... to the moxibustion fire, can penetrate the meridians and remove all diseases."

Indicates that the use of moxa leaves as moxibustion materials, there are through the meridians, dispel the cold, eliminate swelling and knot, back to the sun to save the role of the reverse. Modern pharmacology found that the volatile oil content of mugwort leaves, 1.8 - eucalyptus (accounting for more than 50%), the other α - siderone, sesquiterpene enol and its esters. Air-dried leaves contain 10.13% minerals, 2.59% fat, 25.85% protein, and vitamins A, B1, B2, C and so on. Moxa leaves for moxibustion, generally the older the better, so there is a "seven years of disease, seek three years of moxa" ("Mencius") said.

Mugwort has a menstrual regulation, stop bleeding, stop avalanches, cold and damp effects. Treatment of menstrual disorders, menstrual pain, abdominal pain, miscarriage, uterine bleeding, the root of rheumatoid arthritis, head wind, wind in the month. Because it can cut ice to make round, and can be scorched for all diseases, for the most commonly used medicine. Modern experimental research has proved that mugwort has antibacterial and antiviral effects; asthma, cough and expectorant effects; hemostatic and anticoagulant effects; sedative and antiallergic effects; hepatoprotective choleretic effects.

Mugwort can be used as "mugwort tea", "mugwort soup", "mugwort porridge" and other recipes to enhance the body's resistance to disease. Mugwort has a special flavor, this special flavor has the effect of mosquitoes and insects, so the ancients often hung in front of the door of the mugwort, one for the evil spirits, the second for the mosquitoes and insects.

Method

The main material of moxa therapy is moxa velvet, which is processed from moxa leaves. The leaves of moxa grown in May in a wild and sunny place are selected, air-dried and placed indoors for 1 year and then used, which is called aged moxa. Take the aged mature moxa to remove the impurities of coarse stems, crushed after grinding sieve, remove the tip of the debris, take the white fibers and then grinding into velvet. You can also take the new leaves of the year after fully sun-dried, more milling several times, until it is kneaded as cotton that is into Ai velvet.

1. the production of moxa cones

Appropriate amount of moxa in a flat disk, with the food, middle, thumb pinch into a cylindrical shape that is moxa cones. The more solid the pile is pinched, the better, according to the needs of the cones can be made into a thumb, broad beans, wheat grain size of three kinds, known as large, medium, small moxa cones. Figure 146.

2. the production of moxa roll

will be the appropriate amount of moxa pinched with both hands into a long strip, soft and hard to moderate, in order to facilitate the charcoal combustion is desirable, and then placed in the width of about 5.5 centimeters, about 25 centimeters long mulberry paper or cotton paper, and then rolled into a cylindrical shape, and finally with the paste will be the edge of the paper glue, the ends of the paper head compacted, which is made of about 20 centimeters long, about 1.5 centimeters in diameter. Ai roll.

3. spacer production

In the spacer moxibustion, need to choose different spacers, such as fresh ginger, garlic, garlic, medicine bottles and so on. All of them should be prepared in advance before applying moxibustion. Fresh ginger, garlic washed and cut into thin slices of about 2-3 mm thick, and in the middle of the ginger and garlic slices with millimeters or fine needles pricked into a sieve-like holes, in order to facilitate the moxibustion treatment of heat and qi. Garlic puree, onion puree, earthworm puree, etc. should be washed and pounded into mud. Medicine bottles should be selected from the corresponding drugs crushed and crushed into powder, with wine, ginger juice or honey and so on and then molded into a pancake, also need to be in the middle of the sieve holes after the application.

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