The effect of a hot compress of coarse salt with mugwort is equivalent to indirect salt moxibustion, which has the effect of returning yang to save the body (saving fainting, unconsciousness, etc. by warming yang qi) and warming the middle and dispersing the cold (dispersing the cold with medicines that warm the spleen and stomach).
Salt moxibustion belongs to the indirect moxibustion in moxa cone moxibustion. This method is mostly used for “Shen Que” moxibustion, the specific operation is to take an appropriate amount of dry and clean salt, fill in the Shen Que point, that is, the navel, you can place a piece of ginger on the surface of the salt, and then place the moxa cones, ignite and then apply moxibustion.
Salt moxibustion is often used in the treatment of acute abdominal pain and diarrhea, dysentery, cold limbs (cold limbs, even cold to the elbows and knees), dehydration, stroke and other evidence, can play a warm middle dispersal of cold, back to the yang to save the efficacy of the reverse.
Operation should be continuous moxibustion, moxibustion to feel the pain when the cones and then moxibustion, should be to improve the symptoms, limbs back to the temperature, the pulse resumed to the degree.
However, the suitability of salt moxibustion needs to be judged by a professional physician, the operation should also be carried out under the guidance of the physician, so as to avoid damage to the organism.