Moxibustion originated in ancient times and was formed in the Qin and Han dynasties. The Qin and Han dynasties were important periods in the formation of traditional acupuncture and moxibustion medicine in China. The medical masterpiece “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine”, which was produced in the Qin and Han dynasties, introduced moxibustion therapy as an important content systematically. It proposed that the indications for moxibustion therapy included external diseases, internal injuries, dirty diseases, cold and heat diseases, carbuncles and gangrene, and epilepsy, etc. It was believed that the role of moxibustion therapy had many aspects such as starting the trap, supplementing yin and yang, expelling cold and evil, and unblocking the qi and blood of meridians. After that, moxibustion method was further developed, by the successive generations of medical practitioners to inherit and promote, to the Ming and Qing dynasties has been quite mature, but to the late Qing dynasty, due to historical reasons moxibustion method to decline. It is unexpected that the moxibustion method, which was abandoned in China, has been developed in the East. It is proved that in 514 A.D., our acupuncture was first introduced to Korea; in 550 A.D., moxibustion was introduced to Japan from Korea. In ancient times, Japanese folk applied moxibustion to prevent health care and prolong life as a major event in the year to exercise, the general public, the implementation of health moxibustion, and popular “do not travel with people who do not moxibustion foot three miles”, “the wind door point everyone moxibustion” and other proverbs. In Japan, both men and women must be moxibustion treatment four times in their lives: 17 or 18 years old, moxibustion Fengmen, said to prevent colds, the ancient Japanese believe that colds are the first of all diseases; 24 or 25 years old, moxibustion Sanyinjiao, intended to enhance fertility; 30 or 40 years old, then moxibustion Foot Sanli, believed to promote the function of the spleen and stomach, to prevent disease, increase life expectancy: in old age, in order to prevent vision loss, in addition to the Foot Sanli also moxibustion Quchi. The purpose of moxibustion Quchi is to make the eyes bright and teeth strong. This practice continued until the eve of the Meiji Restoration. In recent studies, it has been found that moxibustion has a wide clinical scope, and can be applied to all disciplines of internal and external gynecology and pediatrics, men, women, and children, and to all real and deficient evidence. In terms of the mechanism of action of moxibustion, researchers through a large number of experimental research, moxibustion may be through the multi-system, multi-channel, multi-target effect to play the effect of the immune system, the nervous system, the endocrine system and other involved in the moxibustion therapy on the regulation process of the body. At present, it is believed that the warming stimulation and pharmacological effects of moxibustion stimulate the meridian qi through acupuncture points, so as to adjust the function of meridians and internal organs, regulate the balance of yin and yang of the body, and achieve the purpose of disease prevention and treatment. Its effects can be summarized as warming the meridians, dispelling dampness and cold; raising the Yang and lifting the trap, returning the Yang to fix off; eliminating blood stasis and dissipating knots, extracting toxins and draining heat; preventing diseases, health care and strengthening the body. The application of moxibustion to treat psychiatric diseases has been recorded in ancient times. According to the different clinical manifestations of psychiatric patients, the ancient Chinese doctors divided them into madness and epilepsy. The pathogenesis is due to the imbalance of yin and yang, which cannot maintain each other, resulting in yin deficiency in the lower part of the body and yang hyperactivity in the upper part of the body, which disturbs the brain and the mind. The pathogenesis of epilepsy is due to overthinking, not being able to get what one wants, depressing the liver qi and injuring the spleen. The pathogenesis of schizophrenia is due to excessive thinking, inability to get what one wants, depression of liver qi, injury to spleen, failure of spleen qi to rise, depression of qi and phlegm, and obscuring of the mind. The use of moxibustion can be combined with western medicine, Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture, especially in the early stage of the disease, which is the key to fast results. In the middle and late stages of the disease or in the stable stage, acupuncture therapy can play a role in reducing toxicity and increasing effectiveness, thus shortening the course of treatment, reducing recurrence, helping to restore the balance of the body’s yin and yang, getting rid of undesirable mental factors, and achieving a return to mental and physical health.