Moxibustion is good for the body, but which points should not be moxibrated?

Acupuncture is a common treatment in Chinese medicine, which is to ignite the moxa sticks and use the fire produced by the drug to smoke some points or specific parts of the body surface. By stimulating some points, it can regulate the body's secretion, make the body's qi, blood, yin and yang to achieve balance, can play a disease prevention as well as cure the purpose of the disease. Moxibustion has a lot of benefits for the human body, but if it is not used appropriately, and does not follow the doctor's instructions on how to use it, then it can also cause some adverse reactions, and improper operation can easily cause some accidents.

So what are the contraindications and precautions of moxibustion?

1, pay attention to the time

Many people sleep poorly when they choose the treatment method of moxibustion, moxibustion can mobilize the yang qi in the body, but if the operation is not right, but will cause insomnia phenomenon. Therefore, people who do not sleep well in the choice of moxibustion treatment method, pay attention to choose the right points, and do moxibustion is not recommended to do at night, it is best to do in the afternoon.

2, don't burn

When the moxa is burning, especially when it burns well, the surface temperature of the moxa is very high. Therefore, when doing moxa, pay attention to keep a certain distance from the skin, do not get too close to the skin, or it will lead to the patient burns. The optimal distance is that the patient can feel a warm sensation on the skin, do not feel burning, or burns are also easy to leave scars later. It should also be noted that when doing moxibustion should be away from some flammable materials to prevent igniting some items.

3, stimulation

After the moxibustion ignition there will be a big flavor, the taste of irritation is relatively large, and sometimes will cause the patient's eyes discomfort, tearing symptoms. Some of the smell is because the quality of the moxa is not very good. Poor quality moxa produces smoke when it burns, which can cause some harm to the body. Therefore, when doing moxa, you must choose high quality moxa sticks to prevent the quality problem from causing discomfort.

4, forbidden parts

Not any part of the moxibustion can do moxibustion, many parts of the skin is relatively weak, is not allowed to moxibustion. Commonly prohibited parts of the face, pregnant women lumbosacral, lower abdomen, nipples, pubic, testicles and other parts of these thin skin is not direct moxibustion. There are also large blood vessels, heart, parts can not be direct moxibustion, will produce some danger.

5, special circumstances

Some special circumstances are also prohibited to do moxibustion, when too fatigue, hunger, fever, coma, extreme physical weakness, is prohibited to do moxibustion. It is easy to be dangerous to do moxibustion in these cases.

The above is the moxibustion need to pay attention to the matters, moxibustion although there are a variety of benefits, but there are still a lot of need to be careful, there are also some disadvantages, so in the choice of moxibustion treatment method, be careful to choose.