When did the origin of moxibustion in Chinese medicine begin?

Acupuncture and moxibustion has strange health care functions, so when did the origin of Chinese medicine moxibustion start? Let's take a look at the origin of moxibustion in Chinese medicine.

Moxibustion is the use of moxa leaves made of moxa material ignited and smoked human body acupuncture points, and then the use of moxa leaves produced by the heat of moxa to stimulate the surface of the body acupuncture points or a specific part of the body by stimulating the activity of menstruation to regulate the disorders of the human body's physiological and biochemical functions, so as to achieve the health care treatment of the treatment method. So when did the origin of moxibustion in Chinese medicine begin?

The Origin of Chinese Moxibustion

Acupuncture arose before humans learned to use fire. In ancient times, our ancestors were injured and became ill during hunting and labor. There was no medicine and no doctors. They had to find a place to just lie down on a big rock scorched by the sun. It was very comfortable. After lying there for a while, they happened to notice that the pain lessened or stopped, and the parts they could not move could be moved.

Once it doesn't count, after two, three, many times, our ancient brains develop a conditioned reflex? Temperature and heat can relieve pain. Therefore, when they had pain in any part of their body, he would lie down on a large rock in the hot sun, or use a small rock in the hot sun to burn in the area of pain.

However, hot stones were limited by weather and location. So when humans were actively learning to use fire, they would pick up a twig or a handful of hay and light a fire, actively smoking and baking their painful parts. In this way, the first method of pain relief and treatment in human history, moxibustion, was officially announced.

So in ancient times moxibustion was a method of relieving pain and curing diseases by warming or roasting with fire.

Chinese medicine believes that moxibustion has the effect of warming the yang and benefiting the qi, warming the meridians and collaterals, resolving stasis and dispersing knots, and tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi. Let's take a look at the effects and functions of moxibustion.

Effects and functions of moxibustion

1. Local stimulation: moxibustion stimulates specific parts of the body with moxa fire. This warm stimulation makes the stimulated local skin congested, capillary expansion, enhance blood circulation, enhance the metabolism of local skin tissues, and promote the dissipation and absorption of inflammation, adhesion, exudate, hematoma and other pathological products, but also play a sedative role in relieving pain, and promote the absorption of drugs.

2. Regulate immune function: moxibustion can regulate the body's immune function, which is more obvious in the pathological state.

3. Prevention of disease and health care: moxibustion not only has a therapeutic effect, but also has the function of disease prevention and health care.

4. Beauty effect: moxibustion can eliminate fatigue, revitalize, replenish energy, balance yin and yang, nourish the five senses and skin, lighten epidermal melanin, eliminate edema, bags and dark circles under the eyes, effectively improve facial fatigue, make women's skin rosy and elastic.

5. Widely used in various medical departments: Widely used in various medical fields, such as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, ear, nose and throat. It is especially suitable for mastitis, prostatitis, frozen shoulder, pelvic inflammatory disease, cervical spondylosis, diabetes. If you are moxibustion at home, you should choose good quality moxa velvet. Inferior quality moxa wool, hard and not lumpy, burning with a fierce flame, easy to make the patient to produce burning pain, and even smoke baked when the stone particles fall off, burn the skin.

Strong body, light condition, short duration of the disease, can be moxibustion one to two; poor body, heavy condition, long duration of the disease, moxibustion for several months or even more than a year. At the beginning of moxibustion, once a day; long-term moxibustion, 3 times after 2-3 days.