The seven considerations of acupuncture for health

Acupuncture and moxibustion is one of the unique Chinese health care methods, which can be used not only for strengthening the body but also for the rehabilitation of people who have been sick for a long time and have a weak body. The so-called health care moxibustion method is to apply moxibustion on certain specific points of the body to achieve the purpose of harmonizing qi and blood, regulating the meridians and nourishing the internal organs to prolong life. The “Introduction to Medicine” says that “the medicine is not as good as the needle, must be moxibustion,” indicating that moxibustion can play the role of needle medicine sometimes can not play. As for the health effects of moxibustion, as early as the “Bian Ji Xin Shu” has a clear record of “people in the absence of disease, often moxibustion Guan Yuan Qi Hai Life Gate …… although not get long life, but also to get more than 100 years old carry on. The seven precautions of acupuncture for health: 1, too fatigued highly nervous hungry people should not be acupuncture; old and frail people acupuncture should try to take a recumbent position, take the appropriate points less, the hand should be light method. 2, pregnant women acupuncture should not be too violent, the abdomen lumbosacral and can cause uterine contraction points such as Hegui Sanyinjiao Kunlun to Yin and other prohibited acupuncture. 3, children because of uncooperative, generally do not stay needles. Infants and children fontanelle and windfu dumb points and other prohibited needles. 4, patients with bleeding disorders, or often have spontaneous bleeding, injury is not easy to stop bleeding, should not be acupuncture. 5, skin infection ulcer scar and tumor sites are not acupuncture. 6, the eye area of the chest and back of the kidney area, the abdomen of patients with gastric ulcer intestinal adhesions intestinal obstruction, urinary retention patients should master the depth and angle of acupuncture in the pubic symphysis area, prohibit direct acupuncture, to prevent accidental injury to important organs. 7, acupuncture does have excellent curative effect on certain diseases, but not everything, especially the treatment of some acute diseases, should be used according to the situation in a timely manner comprehensive treatment, in order to be more beneficial to patients, but also to give full play to the role of acupuncture.