Winter sickness and summer treatment – three volt days talk about moxibustion

The treatment method of moxibustion is to apply skin stimulating drugs to the acupuncture points or affected areas on the day of three volts to make the local skin naturally congested, flushed or blistered. It is also known as self-moxibustion and compressing moxibustion because it does not use moxibustion and the local skin has a similar reaction to moxibustion. It is a kind of “point dressing” evolved from the ancient cold moxibustion therapy. The so-called winter disease summer treatment, is the winter disease, in the summer for treatment, so that the patient deficiency Yang to restore normal, enhance the ability to resist disease, so as to prevent and reduce the onset of disease in winter. The three volt days refer to the third and fourth geng days after the summer solstice and the first geng day after the first day of autumn. The reason why the three volt days are chosen for tian moxibustion treatment is that traditional medicine believes that both the geng days and the lungs belong to gold in the five elements, therefore, lung diseases are best treated on the geng days. According to the Chinese Medicine “Nei Jing”, the Yang Qi of human body and the Yang Qi of natural creatures are born in spring, flourished in summer, collected in autumn, and hidden in winter, as the Yang Qi of natural world is the most flourished in summer, the Yang Qi of human body also reaches the highest in summer, people nurture Yang Qi in spring and summer, but in winter, Yang Qi is not enough, and Tian Moxibustion can achieve the purpose of winter diseases and summer treatment. What diseases can be treated in winter and summer? One is allergic diseases, asthma, recurrent respiratory infections (such as pharyngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, etc.), chronic bronchitis in the elderly, children are prone to catch a cold in winter; one is related to cold diseases, such as stomach pain, colitis, joint pain, back pain caused by kidney deficiency, and other diseases caused by kidney deficiency. The three volt days are the hottest and most yang days of the year, and they become the best days for people to improve their immunity. Tian moxibustion therapy is good for allergic rhinitis, asthma, and people who are prone to colds. It can improve the body’s immunity and prevent the recurrence of asthma and allergic rhinitis in winter. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, “spring and summer nourish Yang”, the cold climate in winter is more harmful to the human body, coupled with the lack of Yang energy, it is easy to suffer from the above diseases, and it is difficult to heal. In summer, when the disease is in remission and the weather is hot, the body’s yang energy is strong, especially in the three volt days, the three volt days are the hottest days of the year, when the couples of the human skin are completely open, and specific acupuncture points are selected for compressing, the drug is most likely to penetrate into the meridians of the acupuncture points from the skin and reach the disease through the meridians of qi and blood, which will have the effect of supporting the internal organs and eliminating evil, strengthening the immunity of the body and reducing the number of winter The number of attacks in winter, to achieve the purpose of both primary and secondary treatment. The main treatment for winter illnesses is to apply the medicine on specific acupuncture points on the hottest day of the year, the “three volt days”. Note 1, adults generally paste 3-6 hours, children paste 30 minutes – 2 hours. It is generally appropriate to feel a slight burning sensation at the acupuncture point when applying the medicine. Each person’s skin tolerance is different, such as feeling irritated intolerable, should be removed in advance. After applying the patch the patient’s local skin will have varying degrees of itching, numbness, burning, tingling sensation, after removing the drug cake can be seen on the acupuncture point epidermis to form red spots or blisters, this is the normal acupuncture point reaction. If the skin on the acupuncture point blisters, the effect will be better, proving that the drug has been applied by the skin penetrate into the acupuncture point meridians, through the meridians of Qi and blood directly to the disease. 2, after the patch if the skin blisters, should immediately remove the drug and pay attention to the protection of the wound, to avoid scratching caused by infection, can be coated with universal oil. If the burning sensation is still very much after removing the medicine, you can apply a little cooling oil or alcohol, etc. If there are small blisters rupture and cause infection, should promptly go to the dermatology department for medical attention. 3, moxibustion therapy within two hours after the rinse with cold water is strictly prohibited. 4, although moxibustion therapy has a better effect, but some of the Chinese herbs used have a strong stimulating effect on the skin, so pregnant women, the elderly and weak, skin allergies, blood evidence and a variety of real heat evidence patients should be prohibited. 5, moxibustion therapy during the period should be prohibited to eat cold stimulating food, do not crave cold, do not eat fat, sweet, thick and greasy, phlegm-assisted wet food (beef, duck, goose and peanuts), prohibit seafood, shrimp and other hairy things to avoid skin blisters ulcerated pus, especially allergic people, in order to avoid affecting the therapeutic effect. If small blisters appear after moxibustion, the drug should be removed immediately, and those who do not appear small blisters should not be longer than six hours. The main indications for moxibustion are: 1. bronchial asthma: asthma for short. The main manifestation is recurrent wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness or cough, mostly related to exposure to allergens, cold air, physical and chemical stimuli, viral respiratory infections, exercise, etc. 2, chronic bronchitis: mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly smokers, mainly manifested as long-term cough, coughing, with or without wheezing symptoms, cold season and morning and evening especially dramatic. 3, allergic rhinitis: the main manifestations of the rapid onset, nasal itching, frequent sneezing, runny nose, often due to changes in the environment or temperature caused by the onset, the symptoms disappear in a few minutes to 1 to 2 hours. 4, deficient people cold: multifactorial body spleen and stomach weakness, lung Qi deficiency, dysfunction of the external guard caused by, mainly manifested as easy to repeatedly cold, etc.. 5, the spleen and stomach weakness evidence: mostly manifested as abdominal distension and less, abdominal pain, pain like press, loose stools, body tiredness, fatigue, no color, etc.. 6, deficiency cold pain: rheumatism pain, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, arthritis, mostly manifested as soreness and pain, continuous, the hands and feet are not warm, like warmth, like to press, even more in case of labor.