The Origin of Traditional Chinese Medicine Moxibustion
Moxibustion is a therapeutic method that uses moxibustion materials made of Folium Artemisiae Argyi to ignite and smoke human acupoints, and then uses the moxibustion heat generated by it to stimulate acupoints or specific parts of the body surface to regulate the physiological and biochemical functions of human disorders by stimulating menstrual activities, thus achieving health care treatment. So when did the origin of TCM moxibustion begin?
Moxibustion existed before humans learned to use fire. In ancient times, our ancestors were injured and sick during hunting and work. At that time, there was no medicine and no doctor. We can only find a place to lie down, just lying on a big stone that is scalding by the sun. Very comfortable. After lying down for a while, we accidentally found that the pain eased or stopped, and the immobile parts moved.
Not counting once, after two, three and many times, a conditioned reflex of temperature and heat can relieve the pain of our ancient brain. So, when any part of their body hurts, he will lie on a very hot big stone or burn the painful part with a very hot small stone.
The hot stone is limited by the weather and place, so when human beings learn to use fire actively, they pick up a branch or a handful of hay and light it, and actively smoke their painful parts. In this way, moxibustion, the first method in human history to relieve one's own pain and treat one's own diseases, was officially announced.
Therefore, ancient moxibustion is a method to relieve pain and treat diseases by warming or baking with fire.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that moxibustion has the functions of warming yang and benefiting qi, warming meridians and dredging collaterals, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass, and tonifying middle energizer and benefiting qi. Let's take a look at the efficacy and role of moxibustion.
Efficacy and function of moxibustion
1. local stimulation: moxibustion stimulates specific parts of the human body with moxa fire. This kind of warm stimulation can make the stimulated local skin hyperemia, dilate capillaries, enhance blood circulation, enhance the metabolic capacity of local skin tissues, promote the dissipation and absorption of pathological products such as inflammation, adhesion, exudate and hematoma, and also have sedative and analgesic effects and promote the absorption of drugs.
2. Regulating immune function: Moxibustion can regulate human immune function, especially in pathological state.
3, disease prevention and health care: Moxibustion not only has therapeutic effect, but also has the role of disease prevention and health care.
4. Beauty function: Moxibustion can eliminate fatigue, restore vitality, replenish physical strength, balance yin and yang, nourish facial features and hair, dilute epidermal melanin, eliminate edema, eye bags and dark circles, effectively improve facial fatigue, and make women's skin rosy and elastic.
5, widely used in various medical disciplines: widely used in various medical fields, such as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, ent, etc. Especially for mastitis, prostatitis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, cervical spondylosis, diabetes, etc.
If you want to choose a good quality moxa stick when you want to moxibustion at home. Inferior moxa is stiff and does not reunite. When burning, the firepower is fierce, which is easy to make patients feel burning, and even when smoking, the stone particles fall off and burn the skin.
Those with strong constitution, mild illness and short course of disease are treated with moxibustion 1? Just twice; Patients with poor health, serious illness and old age can be moxibustion for several months or even more than 1 year. At the first moxibustion, once a day 1 time; Long-term moxibustion treatment, changed to 2 times after 3 times? 3 days 1 time.