Moxibustion has a certain therapeutic effect on rheumatism.
Rheumatism in Chinese medicine belongs to the category of paralysis, is due to the deficiency of positive qi, external wind, cold, dampness and other evils attacking the human body, resulting in the limbs, joints, muscles and other places in pain, pain, numbness and other main diseases. Most of the patients have joint pain which is aggravated by cold.
Moxibustion has the effect of warming the meridians and dispersing cold, eliminating stasis and dissipating knots, etc. Moxibustion can warm the meridians and collaterals, activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, move qi and relieve pain (by regulating the body’s qi to relieve pain), and can treat rheumatism. Clinically, different moxibustion methods, including moxa cone moxibustion and moxa stick moxibustion, are used according to the different parts and nature of the patient’s pain.
Note that direct moxibustion should not be used at large blood vessels, septic moxibustion should not be used at joints, and moxibustion should not be applied to the lumbosacral region and abdomen of pregnant women.
Moxibustion treatment of rheumatism in different parts and methods, such as the need for moxibustion, should go to the hospital, in the doctor under the guidance of moxibustion, do not moxibustion, so as not to avoid scalding the disease.