A classic story about moxibustion is recorded in Dou Cai’s famous book on moxibustion in the Song Dynasty, “The Book of the Heart of the Magpie”. He was 90 years old, but his body was strong and his physical strength was different from normal people: “wonderfully rich”, energetic, radiant, and full of elastic muscles.
Unfortunately, he was later taken into custody and beheaded for his evil deeds. Before the execution, the beheading official curiously asked him, “Do you have any strange magic?” (meaning why were you still so strong at the age of ninety?) He replied, “No, only the power of fire. Every summer and autumn, that is, burning Guan Yuan a thousand burners, for a long time not to fear the cold and heat, tired of days not hungry, so far under the umbilicus a piece like the warmth of fire. Do not you know that the earth becomes bricks, wood into charcoal, a thousand years of immortality, all the power of fire.” It means: I have no special recipe, but only the power of fire. Every year, at the turn of summer and autumn, I perform moxibustion at the Guan Yuan point for about a thousand strokes, so that people will slowly become less afraid of heat and cold, more resistant to cold and heat, and even less likely to feel hungry all day long. Have you not heard of it? Clay can become bricks, wood can become charcoal, immortal for a thousand years, all because of the power of fire. Later, the executioner ordered his men to cut open Wang Chao’s warm abdomen, and saw a piece of non-flesh, non-bone, solid as stone, which is indeed the effect of fire!
In 2008, Korea’s state-run television station introduced a 94-year-old moxibustion doctor, whose face was “wonderfully rich”, looking like he was 50 or 60 years old, lively and lively, with crystal-clear skin on his face, clear ears and eyes, and a straight back, without any old look. He demonstrated moxibustion while laughing and smiling, and showed his own long-term moxibustion parts, and his life using acupuncture techniques to save countless people, until now, at the age of 94, he still treats many patients every day, which is amazing. He summarized that the root cause of all diseases is the cold evil and the blockage of the meridians, although he used acupuncture and moxibustion, but especially respected moxibustion, so called “Mr. Moxibustion Hall”.
The effectiveness of moxibustion is beyond our imagination. Moxibustion treats all diseases, strengthens the Yang, warms the meridians, disperses wind and cold, relaxes the tendons and activates the collaterals, returns the Yang to save the rebellion. Modern medical experimental research proves that
Moxibustion can adjust the function of internal organs, promote metabolism, change blood composition, increase the number of white blood cells, hematocrit, red blood cells and the phagocytic function of white blood cells, strengthen immunity, improve the body’s resistance, so as to play a role in eliminating disease and strengthening the body, benefit life and prolong life.
Now I will introduce several special moxibustion methods commonly used in my rehabilitation center, regular use, benefit a lot.
1, “with the year strong” moxibustion method: is the traditional heavy moxibustion “Guan Yuan” method and “refining the umbilical cord method” combined and improved a moxibustion method. The first time it was seen in the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine”, the Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong, Chen Yanzhi, one of the pioneers of moxibustion therapy, applied “with the year strong”. From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was included as an important content in the medical texts such as “Qianjin Yifang”, “Qianjin Essentials”, “Shengji Zuilu”, “Wai Tai Secrets” and “Zisheng Jing of Acupuncture and Moxibustion”, etc. It is rich in acupuncture points and involves a wide range of diseases, including first aid, miscellaneous internal diseases, surgical diseases, gynecology, male diseases, pediatric diseases and mental symptoms.
”The moxibustion method is a simple method of quantification that takes into account individual differences and provides an excellent solution for the quantification of moxibustion treatment.
The moxibustion method has the function of warming the dantian, strengthening the yuan yang, cultivating the yuan and consolidating the essence, and tonifying the marrow, and is currently used to treat stroke, spinal cord injury, poor bowel control, and various causes of back pain, with miraculous results. The application of the ordinary healthy people can strengthen the body, delay aging, longevity and longevity.
2. Ren pulse moxibustion: it is our own moxibustion method. It is a method of applying moxibustion on the Ren vein. The moxibustion area is from the Hatsuo point to the Zhongji point, and the umbilicus is filled with the medicine invented by our department, which nourishes kidney yin and warms kidney yang, covered with 5cm wide and 2.5cm high minced ginger, topped with moxa strips, and ignited for moxibustion.
The Ren Vessel is the sea of the Yin Vessel, which can be adjusted to nourish the blood, promote digestion, nourish the Yin and replenish the deficiency, protect the female uterus and ovaries, delay menopause, and care for the function of the male prostate. The moxibustion method is widely used to treat a variety of diseases, especially effective for Yang, deficiency and cold evidence, can play: health care, anti-aging and prevention of decline; warming Yang to replenish deficiency, back to Yang to fix off; supplement the middle and benefit the Qi, rising Yang to lift the trap, warming the menstruation and dispersing cold, moving Qi and relieving pain, benefitting Qi and blood, dispersing nodules and eliminating swelling, supporting the right to fight cancer, pacifying the liver and lowering the rebellion, leading Qi downward.
3, modified moxibustion: the original folk therapy, is on the back of the human body on the Governor’s vein, a special moxibustion method to treat disease, its moxibustion treatment, from the large vertebrae point to the lumbar Yu, along the midline of the spine on the powder (our own developed formula), and then on the powder on the bottom of 5cm wide, 2.5cm high ginger, laying moxa strips, and then ignite the two ends and the middle of moxibustion, so that the whole moxa cone slowly The whole moxa cone is slowly burned out, each time can moxibustion 1-3 strong.
The moxibustion combines the therapeutic effects of the meridians, drugs, ginger and moxibustion, with ginger being pungent and warm, and moxibustion being warm and permeable, both of which enhance the permeability of the skin and promote the absorption of the drug components in the body. The moxibustion method includes the comprehensive advantages of meridians, acupoints, drugs and moxibustion methods, which can be described as the method of yin and yang, and in the number of techniques, multi-pronged, straight to the disease to adjust the whole body, to play the function of warming the yang to disperse cold, tonifying the kidney and the Governor, strengthening the bones and penetrating the muscle, moving Qi and blood, breaking the stasis and dispersing the knots, and relieving paralysis and pain, to achieve the effect of tonifying the kidney deficiency and the Governor stagnation “the symptoms and the root cause of the treatment”.
The above moxibustion method of health suitable for people
1, in a sub-healthy state of people
Although there is no chronic disease, but easy to catch a cold, long-term fatigue or excessive stress and weakness, lack of energy, physical strength, difficult to cope with heavy work.
2.People who suffer from chronic diseases or long term illnesses and weakness
Patients who cannot be completely controlled by drugs overnight, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, chronic hepatitis, early cirrhosis, chronic gastritis, chronic nephritis, anemia, back and leg pain, male sexual dysfunction, female menstrual irregularities, etc.
3.People who need physical conditioning
Although they are not troubled by discomfort for the time being, they have a strong possibility of suffering from a certain disease due to their partial physique, which is not a calm physique, and can be prevented before it happens if timely intervention is made.
4.Patients in recovery period
Such as after surgery, after bleeding, after a serious illness, after giving birth to a weak body, etc.
In the Book of the Heart of the Magpie, it is said that “the method of preserving life is first with burning moxa, second with elixir, and third with appendage.” Moxibustion is the essence of Chinese medicine, which has been passed down through generations, with a long history, natural and comfortable treatment, and long-term application, long life and healthy longevity are within reach.