Lumbar disc herniation is the name of western medicine, with lumbar pain, activity limitation as the main symptom, can be attributed to the Chinese medicine “lumbar paralysis” category, the clinical treatment with drug therapy, physical therapy and surgical treatment, acupuncture and moxibustion can be used as an auxiliary means of treatment.
Moxibustion has the efficacy of warming yang, promoting blood circulation, eliminating blood stasis, promoting qi and relieving pain (by regulating the body’s qi to relieve pain), and dredging the meridians and channels. In the treatment of lumbar paralysis with moxibustion, the type of lumbar paralysis should be clarified first, and then according to the type of the evidence, the appropriate acupoints for moxibustion should be selected.
If the waist for the cold pain heavy, cold pain in the cold damp type of lumbar paralysis, moxibustion lumbar yangguan, kidney Yu, Yanglingquan and other points; if the waist is sore, in case of labor aggravation of kidney deficiency type of lumbar paralysis, moxibustion Guanyuan, the fate of the door, the kidney Yu, Taixi and other points; if the waist stinging pain, pain in a fixed place, may be stasis blood lumbar pain, moxibustion should be a is the point (acid numbness and distension of pain feeling obvious points), waist pinch, sea of blood and other points.
Moxibustion should be operated under the guidance of a professional herbalist to prevent burns caused by self-operation. The effectiveness of moxibustion is limited. If you have a herniated disc, you should receive regular treatment under the guidance of a professional physician.