What is the function of moxibustion?

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, which 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. It can be improved by moxibustion at Baihui point, so as to "push it up". Another example is the cloud in The Analects of Confucius: "Those who have rectocele in the process of releasing cold at points are full of water." In short, this is also one of the unique functions of moxibustion.

Detoxification and heat release

Physicians in past dynasties often put forward the problem 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't be a ninja, moxibustion is strong in the small intestine, and moxibustion is three inches horizontal. "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 pointed out: "Within seven days after carbuncle, it is most appropriate to open knot and draw 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 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.

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Matters needing attention

1. Be attentive and patient: pay attention to concentration when moxibustion is applied, and don't distract attention when moxibustion is applied, so as not to move the moxa stick instead of on the acupoint, which will only hurt the skin and flesh and waste time. For health moxibustion, we should persist for a long time, and occasionally moxibustion can not achieve the expected effect.

2. Pay attention to the accuracy of body position and acupoints: on the one hand, the body position should meet the needs of moxibustion, and at the same time, it should be noted that the body position should be comfortable and natural, and the position and acupoints should be determined according to the prescription to ensure the effect of moxibustion.

3. Fire prevention: Many modern clothes are made of chemical fiber, down and other textures, which are easy to burn. Therefore, we must pay attention to fire prevention when moxibustion, especially when moxibustion with moxa sticks, to prevent the moxa sticks from tumbling off. After moxibustion, the lighted end of the moxa stick can be stuffed into a bottle with a diameter slightly larger than that of the moxa stick to facilitate extinguishing.

4. Pay attention to keep warm and prevent heatstroke: Because some body surface parts should be exposed when moxibustion is applied, it is necessary to keep warm in winter and prevent heatstroke when it is hot in summer. At the same time, pay attention to adjust the indoor temperature and turn on the ventilator in time to exchange fresh air.

5. Prevention of infection: festering moxibustion or improper moxibustion treatment may lead to sores on local burns, resulting in moxibustion sores. Be sure not to break the sore. If the infection has been broken, use anti-inflammatory drugs in time.

6. Master the procedure of moxibustion: If there are many points scattered, they should be carried out in the order of back first, chest and abdomen, and head and back.

7. Pay attention to the time of moxibustion: Some diseases must pay attention to the time of moxibustion. For example, insomnia should be moxibustion before going to bed. Do not apply moxibustion on an empty stomach before and after meals.

Step by step. When you use moxibustion for the first time, you should pay attention to the amount of stimulation. First, a small amount of small doses, such as using moxa sticks, or moxibustion for a shorter time and fewer times. Increase the dose in the future. Don't start with a large dose.

9. Although the prevention of dizzy moxibustion is rare, once it is dizzy, it will cause dizziness, dizziness, nausea, pallor, palpitation and sweating. , even fainted. Immediately after the occurrence of dizzy moxibustion, stop moxibustion, lie on your back, add moxibustion at Zusanli, and gently moxibustion for about 10 minutes.

10. Pay attention to the adjustment of moxibustion temperature: For children with sensitive person's skin or children, put the index finger and middle finger on both sides of the moxibustion site to sense the temperature of the moxibustion site, so as not to burn the skin, and the effect is good.

Moxibustion taboo

Because moxibustion fumigation uses fire moxibustion, careless moxibustion may cause local skin burns. On the other hand, some Xue Jing will be injured in the process of moxibustion, so some parts or some people can't be moxibustion. These are all taboos of moxibustion. There were many taboos about moxibustion in ancient times. Although some taboos can be broken, some situations should be taboo.

1. All exposed parts, such as the face, should not be directly moxibustion, so as not to form scars and affect the appearance.

2. Do not apply moxibustion to areas with thin skin and few muscles, waist and sacrum of pregnant women, lower abdomen, nipples, genitals and testicles of men and women. In addition, do not directly moxibustion joints. In addition, don't moxibustion big blood vessels and heart. The eyeball belongs to the face, so don't moxibustion.

3. Extreme fatigue, hunger, satiety, drunkenness, excessive sweating, emotional instability, or female menstrual taboo moxibustion.

4. Some infectious diseases, high fever, coma, convulsions, or extreme physical exhaustion and emaciated bones are all prohibited from moxibustion.

5. People who have no self-control ability such as mental patients should avoid moxibustion.

References:

Moxibustion _ Baidu encyclopedia