Does moxibustion have any effect on deep vein thrombosis? No. There may be pain at the site of the thrombosis when moxibustion is applied. That is because the pain is caused by the blockage. If the thrombus is in the limbs, you can do blood cupping on the blocked area. For cerebral blood vessels, if the head is swollen, you can do floating acupuncture to clear it. If there is a blood clot in the heart, it should be treated in the cardiology department. However, if there is a thrombus with symptoms, you need to find the relevant specialist to deal with it, thrombolysis or with the release of the filter. You have to look at how deep vein thrombosis develops. A lot of DVTs are related to cardiovascular disease, related to blood pressure. There are two factors that contribute to thrombosis, one is lipid stuff, lipid diets attach to the endothelium of the blood vessels, and when the endothelium is damaged it forms lipid plaques, which slowly form into a thrombus, and the second is overly salty stuff, which causes the blood to thicken and form a thrombus. Routinely, moxibustion has no effect on DVT. DVT tends to dislodge and form emboli in different places. For example, if you have a DVT in the lower extremities, it will swell and become swollen, and moxibustion has a warming effect, which promotes local blood circulation and reduces these symptoms. However, I find it difficult to let moxibustion treat thrombosis. Do I need to take tonic or dietary supplements to regulate qi and blood during moxibustion? Or is there any proprietary Chinese medicine to go with it? This needs to be decided according to the patient’s own situation and constitution. If the moxibustion is on fire, you can slightly add some pungent and cool medicines to relieve the epidermis, such as honeysuckle and panax quinquefolium. Health care moxibustion can not be added to tonify the qi and blood of the soup or dietary supplements. If the moxibustion is used to treat a disease and the body is very weak, it is better to add tonic herbs or dietary supplements to replenish qi and blood. Generally, moxibustion can tonify the vital energy, as well as the lung qi, spleen qi, and liver blood, so the medicines that are added are definitely different. Chinese medicine, if this patient moxibustion, easy to fire, I suggest that he can take oral Chai Hu Gui Zhi Tang, Chai Hu Gui Zhi Tang is a good formula, can harmonize the qi and blood, but also to remove fire, but also warm; both can replenish the qi, but also to replenish the blood; not only can dredge the liver, but also strengthen the spleen, it is a very good medicine. Moxibustion is easy to get blisters, how to deal with it? People need to understand what causes the blisters from moxibustion. Because the person has a lot of dampness, they are especially prone to blisters. Then when you do moxibustion dampness removed, slowly it is not easy to get blisters. The location of the blisters is often the person’s body dampness is heavier, stomach, waist, cervical vertebrae, these places, easy to blisters, moxibustion in the beginning of the dampness is very heavy, it is easy to blisters, and slowly dampness reduces, it is not so easy to blisters. Larger blisters can be drawn out with a syringe needle and smeared with iodine or Bactroban, or you can not draw it, if you do not draw it, you can continue to moxibustion through the moxibustion and then back to the moxibustion. So will the blisters get infected if they break? No. Studies have been done on patients with blisters after moxibustion and found that there are many immune cells in the blisters, so it is not easy to get infected. However, if it comes into contact with something dirty after it breaks, such as dirty water, or a polluted environment, it may stimulate infection. Normally it won’t get infected. If it has to come into contact with water, such as taking a bath, then you can wrap it in plastic wrap and it is not a big problem. Why is the center of the body usually taken as an acupuncture point? In ancient times, the wheel in the middle of the car had an axle, and the axle carried the wheel away, playing the role of vortex, and the spleen and stomach are the axle in the middle, so only when the middle is turned up, can the liver rise, the lungs fall, the kidneys go up and the heart fire move down, so the axle is turned up so that it will not be stagnant. Therefore, the center of the stomach is not only the spleen and stomach, but also an important point of the vortex, and we clinically found that after moxibustion of the center of the stomach, it is not easy to get on fire. Why do some people get blisters from moxibustion of the middle epigastric region but not from moxibustion of Guanyuan? The middle epigastric region is related to the spleen and stomach, which produces dampness, and when the spleen and stomach are weak, the dampness is heavy. Therefore, blisters are easy to appear in this area of the center of the stomach when there is a lot of dampness. Frequent moxibustion acupuncture points now feel very tolerant, at first felt very hot, now put on the fast paste before feeling hot is a good thing? Moxibustion until this happens is a very good sign. You feel hot and sore because you are so blocked that the heat from the moxibustion can’t travel down, and that’s why it hurts and burns easily. Then when this localization is cleared and the heat spreads out easily, you won’t feel hot and sore, and you won’t be prone to blisters and relapses. Can I use a moxa box or a device when I do moxibustion? You can use moxa box for ordinary people, but I don’t recommend it for tumor patients. 1, the moxa box will move, if it moves, the acupuncture points will not be fixed, we are through the moxibustion acupuncture points to treat tumors; 2, as the moxibustion time passes, the effect of moxibustion warmth will be weakened, and this time, the heat, the penetration is not enough; 3, the temperature of the box is not easy to regulate the temperature, the temperature will be lowered, the temperature of moxibustion is the key to obtain the effect of the treatment for patients with tumors. We advocate the use of pure moxa rather than some instruments, moxa’s warmth and penetration is very strong, so the ancients used pure moxa to cure the disease. If the instrument is used alone, it usually has the effect of infrared rays, which is the effect of warmth, but the penetrating effect is not very strong, and the stimulation of acupoints is not very strong, so we don’t advocate the use of instrument for tumor patients. So we don’t advocate the use of instruments for tumor patients. Do you advocate the use of moxa stickers and ginger moxibustion on the market? The strength of moxa sticker is not enough; the temperature of ginger moxibustion is not easy to control, and it is easy to form burns. Ginger moxibustion generally advocate the use of young ginger, young ginger cut thin, probably within 0.5 centimeters, you have to take a needle in a few holes in the ginger, ginger above the coarse fibers, you in the moxibustion, ginger inside the water removed, the coarse fibers will be exposed to the skin caused by a kind of stimulation, like a needle, but also easy to form burns. Now there is a kind of moxa cushion on the market, this has a role for cancer diseases? I think there is no role. Even if it is electrified, for the time being, it is not very useful. Because it kind of not burning, the temperature does not go, but it is a kind of warm things, a lot of lesbians, the buttocks are cold, the lower anxiety is cold can sit. But why do you need to rely on the ignition of moxa velvet, the key is still its warmth through the role of simple moxa velvet, in the case of not burning, the role is not very strong, there will be a little effect, but there is no effect on the tumor patients. Can eating some fresh mugwort leaves or juice of fresh mugwort leaves in normal diet play a role in treating diseases? Mugwort leaves have the effect of warming and dispersing like ginger, and at the same time it has the effect of passing through the twelve meridians like appendicitis, so it is edible. It is also used to make moxa wine for therapeutic purposes.