What is the efficacy of moxa fumigation? What diseases can Ai Xun treat?

Moxibustion is a common treatment method in Chinese medicine. When some parts of our body are in pain, we can do it at home. What is Moxibustion? Moxibustion is to light the unwell part with a moxa stick and put it more than 5 cm away from the skin, and draw a circle around the painful part. The following small series will introduce some effects of Moxibustion. So what is the efficacy of moxa fumigation? What diseases can Ai Xun treat?

1. Efficacy of moxa fumigation

1. Sterilization

The medicinal smoke produced by moxa fumigation has a strong bactericidal effect, so it can be used to treat female genital inflammation, female genital itching, leukorrhagia, blisters and other diseases.

2, analgesic effect

moxa steaming can promote the circulation of blood and lymph in the lower abdomen, thus playing a role in treating lower abdominal pain, menstrual pain, low back pain and neuralgia.

3, anti-inflammatory effect

moxa steaming has the effect of relieving swelling of hemorrhoids, drying and shedding hemorrhoids and eliminating prostatitis.

4. Enhance immune function

The moxa stick used for steaming has the function of increasing human white blood cells, thus accelerating the regeneration of affected cells.

5. Nutritional function

The moxa stick used for steaming moxa contains eucalyptol, amylase, calcium, vitamins and other ingredients, which can play a role in beauty and nutrition.

6, the role of fat removal and detoxification

moxa steaming can promote blood circulation in the lower abdomen and discharge toxin residues in the body, thus playing the role of fat removal. During the treatment, women may have bleeding in the private parts of non-menstrual women or the lower abdomen becomes soft, which is a normal detoxification reaction.

7. Contraction

Women can strengthen the contraction of private parts and uterus, thus improving the quality of sexual life. However, postpartum women need to start treatment after the dirty blood is completely drained, otherwise it will affect the curative effect.

II. Diseases treated by moxa fumigation

1. Indications: rhinitis, common cold, cough and asthma, gastritis, vomiting and diarrhea, joint pain, soreness of waist and knees, cold pain in the heart, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia and dreaminess, fatigue and forgetfulness, vision loss, cold hands and feet, irregular menstruation, infertility due to palace cold, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, kidney deficiency and qi stagnation, etc.

2. Moxibustion and moxibustion therapy have a wide range of applications. Moxibustion is to give warm stimulation to the human body through the pure yang heat and drug power of moxa fire, and to adjust the balance of Yin and Yang of viscera through the conduction of meridians and acupoints, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases, preventing diseases and maintaining health. The main functions of moxibustion are: dredging channels and activating collaterals, promoting qi and blood circulation, eliminating dampness and expelling cold, reducing swelling and dissipating stagnation, restoring yang and rescuing adverse events, preventing diseases and protecting health

3. The mechanism of moxibustion is that the thermal effect generated by moxibustion during the combustion process is transmitted to the meridian system, which mobilizes the immune function of human body and acts on the diseased parts of human internal organs and limbs, with multi-level, multi-function and multi-forms. In a word, strengthen your immunity and achieve the effect of preventing and treating diseases!

4. The function of moxa smoke. The cigarette contains selenium, which is an anticancer component, which can enhance the immunity of human body, relieve asthma and relieve cough. Ai Yan has antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and air purifying effects, which can prevent infectious diseases. The methanol extract from the cigarette also has antioxidant and free radical scavenging effects, and can prevent cancer and resist aging. Mugwort smoke has antifungal effect, and mugwort smoke has different degrees of bacteriostatic effect on various pathogenic skin fungi. When moxa burns, its volatile oil will volatilize with smoke. The volatile oil of moxa leaves has bacteriostatic effect on common pathogenic bacteria such as pneumococcus, Staphylococcus albus and Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus A and B, Neisseria, Escherichia coli, typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli, Shigella flexneri, influenza bacilli, Proteus, etc. The higher the concentration of moxa smoke, the greater the lethality of various pathogens.

5. The principle of moxibustion treatment and health preservation. On the one hand, the principle of moxibustion treatment and health preservation is to use heat to achieve the effects of warming meridians, promoting qi and blood circulation, expelling cold and removing dampness. On the other hand, it relies on the medicinal power of wormwood itself. Because wormwood is a rare medicine in traditional Chinese medicine that can open twelve meridians, the ancients finally decided wormwood as the main raw material for moxibustion after thousands of years of exploration.