After moxibustion navel diarrhea, it may be a normal reaction; it may also be a pathological reaction, such as damp-heat evidence, injured food, liver depression.
1. Normal reaction: moxibustion has the effect of warming the meridians and dispersing cold (warming the human body meridians, get rid of the body’s cold), the role of qi, if moxibustion abdomen or large intestine meridian and other acupuncture points, to achieve a certain amount of qi, to help defecation effect.
Especially if the patient is a patient with a lack of central qi (weak spleen and stomach qi) and weak bowel movements, moxibustion to promote qi and help intestinal defecation, there may be a diarrhea reaction. However, this diarrhea reaction is usually infrequent and can be relieved on its own, less often accompanied by other discomforts.
2. Pathologic reaction:
(1) Damp-heat syndrome: if the patient has a pre-existing intestinal damp-heat condition for moxibustion, and moxibustion is warm in nature, it will exacerbate the damp-heat, leading to intestinal conduction dereliction of duty, and diarrhea will occur.
(2) those who hurt food: in moxibustion navel patients do not pay attention to diet, overeating or overeating greasy spicy, etc., resulting in dietary stagnation or gastrointestinal disorders, dysfunction of transport, turbidity and turbidity are not differentiated, and then diarrhea occurs, which can be accompanied by epigastric (abdominal) distension and fullness, belching and sour and smelly symptoms.
(3) Liver depression: in moxibustion navel patients with emotional disorders, worry and anger, resulting in liver qi uncomfortable, cross against the spleen, and then the loss of the spleen, lifting and lowering of dysfunction, turbidity is not divided into diarrhea.
Injured food and liver depression after moxibustion navel diarrhea is generally not caused by moxibustion itself, but because moxibustion navel at the same time do not pay attention to care may lead to diarrhea.
If the discomfort symptoms, it is recommended that patients go to the hospital in a timely manner, by a professional Chinese medicine doctor for diagnosis and treatment.