What are the disadvantages of moxibustion?

The therapeutic mechanism of moxibustion therapy Moxibustion therapy has a history of thousands of years in China, and its therapeutic effect has been confirmed by countless clinical practices, mainly in the following three aspects:

1. Local thermal stimulation effect

Moxibustion is a therapeutic method to treat and prevent diseases by stimulating a certain part of the human body with moxa fire. The external temperature of moxibustion point is as high as 65438 030℃, and the highest temperature in skin is about 56℃. The temperature changes of subcutaneous and muscular layers are different from those of epidermis, and moxibustion stimulation involves not only superficial layers, but also deep layers. It is this warm stimulation that causes local skin congestion and telangiectasia, enhances local blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, and relieves and eliminates smooth muscle spasm. Strengthen the metabolism of local skin tissues and promote the dissipation and absorption of pathological products such as inflammation, macula, edema, adhesion, exudate and hematoma. At the same time, it can increase the secretion of sweat glands, which is beneficial to the excretion of metabolites; It can also cause cerebral cortex to inhibit diffusion, reduce the excitability of nervous system, and play a sedative and analgesic role; At the same time, heating can also promote the absorption of drugs. It is found that moxibustion has near infrared radiation. The human body is not only an infrared radiation source, but also a good infrared absorber. The near-infrared radiation of moxibustion provides necessary energy for human activities, and the quantum energy of near-infrared light emitted by moxibustion is regulated by human body. In the process of moxibustion therapy, when near infrared radiation acts on human acupoints, it has high penetration ability and is a kind of information irradiation that is beneficial to stimulate acupoints. On the basis of "stimulating vibration", with the help of feedback regulation mechanism, the disorder of energy/information metabolism in pathological state can be corrected, and the immunity of the body can be adjusted to achieve the purpose of restoring normal function.

2. Meridian regulation

Meridian theory is an important content of TCM theory and the theoretical basis of moxibustion. People are a whole, and the internal organs and limbs are coordinated with each other. This coordination relationship is mainly realized by the automatic control and adjustment system of the body. The skin plays the role of receiver and effector, the meridians play the role of transmitting information and communicating, and the brain comprehensively analyzes and processes information, issues instructions and plays the role of command, that is, the skin meridian system.

There are hundreds of bones in the limbs and viscera of the brain, which is also the research result of biological holography. Medical proof shows that even a small local lesion can show all the symptoms of systemic disorder (such as skin redness and swelling, which can cause fever and general discomfort). Therefore, meridian is a multi-level, multi-functional and multi-morphological control system. Therefore, when moxibustion is applied to acupoints, due to the warm stimulation of moxa fire, it produces the results of mutual excitation, mutual coordination and superposition of effects, resulting in physiological amplification effect.

3. Other functions

The therapeutic effect of moxibustion can also be achieved by regulating the immune function of human body, and this effect has the characteristics of two-way regulation, that is, the low one can rise and the high one can fall. Because moxibustion is applied to acupoints, firstly, it stimulates the acupoints themselves, stimulates menstruation, mobilizes the functions of meridians, so that it can better play the overall functions of promoting qi and blood circulation and activating yin and yang, and activates some nerve endings enzymes in the skin to participate in the immune regulation of the body, so it has obvious regulatory effect on the treatment of diseases.

To sum up, the mechanism of moxibustion is that the thermal effect produced by moxibustion in the burning process is transmitted to the meridian system, which mobilizes the immune function of the human body and acts on the diseased parts of the internal organs and limbs. This multi-level, multi-functional, multi-morphological regulation, under the interaction and mutual stimulation, has produced the multiplier effect of treatment.

function

abstract

Moxibustion moxibustion is also called moxibustion therapy. It uses wormwood or other drugs to place acupuncture points or pain points on the body surface for cauterization and warm ironing. With the help of the slight heat of moxibustion fire and the action of drugs, through the conduction of meridians, it can warm and dredge meridians, reconcile qi and blood, coordinate yin and yang, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil spirits, so as to achieve the effects of treating diseases, preventing diseases, protecting health and beautifying. "Huangdi Neijing" says that acupuncture is suitable for acupuncture, and "Introduction to Medicine" also says that "medicine is insufficient and acupuncture is insufficient." It can be seen that moxibustion has long been valued by people, and it has been widely spread because of its high safety, no toxic side effects and health care function. The main functions can be summarized as follows:

Warming meridians and dispelling cold

The normal life activities of human body depend on the function of qi and blood. The movement of qi leads to the circulation of blood, and the cessation of qi leads to the cessation of blood. The popularity of meridian blood gas is entirely due to the promotion of "Qi". Various reasons, such as "cold leads to qi stagnation and heat leads to qi disease", can affect the prevalence of blood gas and cause various diseases. While warm is slippery, cold is astringent, that is to say, qi and blood circulation has the characteristics of warm dispersing and cold coagulating. Therefore, Zhu Danxi said, "It's good if the blood is hot, and it will condense when it is cold." . Therefore, all diseases with blood stasis and no heat can be treated with warming qi. The article "Soul Pivot Stabbing the True Evil" says: "Blood coagulation stops in the pulse, and the Buddha can take it from the fire." "Lingshu Forbidden Clothing" also said: "Sleepy people should be moxibustion because their pulse blood is in the middle and blood is cold." Moxibustion is the application of its warm stimulation, which plays the role of warming meridians and dredging arthralgia. Through the warm stimulation of hot moxibustion on meridian points, it can warm meridians and dispel cold, strengthen the operation of qi and blood, and achieve the purpose of clinical treatment Therefore, moxibustion can be used for arthralgia and diarrhea caused by blood stasis and cold, and the effect is very remarkable.

Activating qi and dredging collaterals

Meridians are distributed in all parts of the human body, including internal organs and external tissues such as muscles and bones. In a normal body, qi and blood circulate endlessly in the meridians and run in sequence. If wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, fire and other external factors invade the human body or local qi and blood, and the meridians are blocked, there will be symptoms such as swelling and pain and a series of dysfunction. At this time, moxibustion at some acupoints can play a role in regulating qi and blood, dredging meridians and balancing functions, and can be used for sores in clinic.

Fu yang gu tuo

Life depends on Yang Qi. If you get what you want, you will live. If you lose what you want, you will die. Therefore, Yang disease will be full of Yin, while Yin will be cold and faint, or Yuan Qi will be trapped, and your pulse will be slightly closed. At this time, as Su Wenjue said, "Yang Qi will decline to the next level and will faint with cold." When Yang Qi declined, Yin Qi prevailed alone; When Yang Qi can't reach her hands and feet, they are cold. For diseases such as critical illness, decline of yang, separation of yin and yang, heavy moxibustion in a cauldron can dispel the cold of yin and restore yang to save it. This is beyond the reach of other acupoint stimulation therapy. It is also mentioned in the Song Dynasty's Acupuncture and Moxibustion Health Sutra: "Anyone who drowns can be saved overnight. Those who take off the clothes of the deceased and moxibustion the umbilicus will live." "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" points out: "Fever will induce benefit, cold hands and feet ... If the pulse is not up, moxibustion will strengthen the body." . "Li Xia, cold hands and feet, irritable, moxibustion Jue Yin, no pulse, moxibustion". Explain that all critical patients with yang deficiency, such as vomiting, diarrhea, cold hands and feet, weak pulse and so on. For example, moxibustion at Guanyuan and Shenque points with big moxa cone can often help strengthen yang and relieve adverse events, and is often used in clinic for stroke and acute abdomen.

Promoting yang to relieve depression

Due to the weakness and instability of yang qi, it can cause upper deficiency and lower stagnation, resulting in proctoptosis, yin stagnation, prolonged diarrhea, metrorrhagia, and slippery tires. In Lingshu Jing, it is said that "depression leads to moxibustion", so moxibustion is often used to treat sagging viscera due to qi deficiency. Li Dongyuan, the founder of the theory of spleen and stomach, also thinks that "people who fall into the trap will not catch a cold" and "there is nothing between heaven and earth but Yin and Yang". Yang is outside and Yin is inside. In this case, if the yang sinks into the yin, it is the yin that lives on it and restores its yang. If the pulse condition and symptoms are all seen outside, use moxibustion. " Therefore, moxibustion therapy can not only warm and help yang, promote yang to relieve depression, prevent miscarriage and consolidate menstruation, but also have curative effect on those who have unstable weiyang and loose acupoints. Restore the body function to normal. Such as proctoptosis, yin stagnation, persistent diarrhea and other diseases. Moxibustion at Baihui point can enhance the yang, thus "pushing up". Another example is the saying in The Analects of Confucius: "Those who have rectocele in the process of releasing cold at the point are full of water." In short, this is also one of the unique functions of moxibustion.

Detoxification and heat release

Moxibustion and Beauty Many physicians in the past dynasties have raised the issue of prohibiting moxibustion due to heat syndrome. For example, "The Master Record of the Holy Ji" points out: "If a husband is afflicted with yang disease, it will be a great rebellion"; Many modern acupuncture textbooks also list heat syndrome as forbidden moxibustion. But ancient and modern physicians have different views on this. There are also records in ancient literature that moxibustion can clear away heat. Moxibustion treatment of carbuncle was first seen in Huangdi Neijing, and moxibustion was regarded as an important method to treat this disease in all previous medical books. The Tang dynasty's "Prepare for a Thousand Women" further pointed out that moxibustion has a cathartic effect on excess heat of viscera. In many places, the book also discusses the moxibustion treatment of carbuncle and yin deficiency with internal heat syndrome caused by heat toxin accumulation. For example, "the small intestine is full of heat, and the yin moxibustion is sufficient, which is more and more abundant with the years", and for example, "the intestinal carbuncle bends two elbows, and the bone at the elbow tip is strong, and purulent blood will come down, that is." Quench thirst, dry mouth can not be a ninja, moxibustion is strong in the small intestine, moxibustion is three inches across. "Zhu Danxi, a doctor in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, believed that moxibustion heat syndrome was treated from the point". "Introduction to Medicine" clarified the mechanism of moxibustion treating heat syndrome: "Heat is moxibustion, which leads to heat depression and fire is dryness. "Jin Jian Moxibustion Carbuncle" points out: "Within seven days after carbuncle, it is most appropriate to open knot and pull out poison moxibustion, from painless moxibustion to painful prescription, from sore moxibustion to painless moxibustion". In short, moxibustion can induce heat with heat and make it go out. Moxibustion can dispel cold and clear heat, which shows that it has a two-way adjustment effect on the original functional state of the body. Especially with the increase of moxibustion and the expansion of clinical scope, this function is more and more recognized by people.

Disease prevention and health care

Ancient doctors in China have long recognized the importance of disease prevention, and put forward the academic ideas of "prevention before illness" and "treatment before illness". Moxibustion not only has therapeutic effect, but also has the function of disease prevention and health care. It is one of the methods of disease prevention and health care and has been recorded in many ancient documents. It was mentioned as early as Huangdi Neijing. In order to prevent rabies, it is necessary to moxibustion the top three places bitten by dogs, that is, moxibustion with the method of dog injury. "Prepare a thousand dollars" says: "Every official who travels in Wu and Shu often needs moxibustion in three or two places. If you don't make the sore temporarily, the furuncle will not hurt people. " It shows that moxibustion can prevent infectious diseases. Acupuncture Dacheng mentioned that moxibustion at Zusanli can prevent stroke. There is a folk saying that "if you want to be healthy, Li Sanchang will not do it" and "Li Sanjiu cures all diseases". Because moxibustion can warm yang and tonify deficiency, moxibustion at Zusanli and Zhongwan can make the stomach full of qi, and the stomach is a sea of water valleys, and all the five internal organs are affected by it, so the stomach is full of qi, so the qi and blood are full; Mingmen is the true fire of the human body and the foundation of human beings; Guanyuan and Qihai are places where Jingxue is stored. Acupoint moxibustion can make people feel full of stomach qi, Yang Qi and essence and blood, thus enhancing the body's resistance, making diseases and pathogens difficult to commit, and achieving the purpose of disease prevention and health care. In modern times, the disease prevention and health care function of moxibustion has become one of the important health care methods.

Please accept the answer and support me.