Moxibustion therapy is widely used, and it is the main method to treat diseases in ancient China. In the words of traditional Chinese medicine, it 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.
It can be widely used in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics and facial diseases, and has special effects on mastitis, prostatitis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, cervical spondylosis and diabetes.
Moxibustion refers to a method of using some burning substances to smoke or warm some parts of the body surface and adjust the functions of meridians and viscera to prevent and treat diseases. There are many raw materials for moxibustion, but mugwort leaves are the main ones, which are fragrant, pungent and bitter, easy to burn and mild in firepower.
Warm stimulation can make local skin hyperemia, telangiectasia, enhance local blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, and relieve and eliminate 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.