1. Overview: pain on one or both sides of the heel, not red or swollen, walking inconvenience. Also known as heel pain. It is a disease caused by lesions in the bones, joints, bursae and fascia of the heel. X-rays show bone spurs on the heel. However, heel pain is not necessarily associated with bone spurs, and metatarsal fasciitis is not necessarily associated with bone spurs. According to Chinese medicine, heel pain is mostly caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency, phlegm-dampness and blood heat. The liver is the main tendon, the kidney is the main bone, liver and kidney deficiency, tendons and bones lose nourishment, and the wind, cold and dampness or chronic strain will lead to stagnation of meridians, the flow of qi and blood is blocked, so that the tendons and muscles lose nourishment and the onset. Clinical manifestations: heel pain, its main manifestation is unilateral or bilateral heel or foot bottom soreness or pinprick-like pain, walking difficulties. The onset is mostly related to chronic strain. Heel pain is often manifested as the first two steps of waking up and landing in the morning, and can be gradually relieved after taking a few steps. There are two kinds of heel pain: one is true heel pain, where the X-ray film confirms the formation of heel bone spurs, and the pain is concentrated; the other is pseudo heel pain, where the X-ray film does not show the formation of bone spur growths, but the heel is in constant pain, and the legs have a heavy weakness. 3. moxibustion therapy: 3.1 acupuncture points: Ah Yes point, Kidney Yu, Yang Ling Quan, Zhao Hai, Shen pulse, etc. 3.2 moxibustion therapy: moxibustion with moxa sticks, moxibustion with ginger, etc. 4. typical Case 4.1 Moxibustion for heel bone spur: Wu, female, 55 years old. The main complaint is that the left heel pain has been 3 to 4 days, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, the pain has increased and continued in the past six months, can not wear hard-soled shoes, can only wear sponge slippers, and must dig a small hole in the heel of the slippers, otherwise it is difficult to walk, the pain increases after exertion, and even chills and fever, until recently even the right heel pain. On lateral X-ray examination of both heels, bird’s beak-like bone spur formation was seen. Treatment: prescription: plum, vinegar, moxa. How to use: choose a large fleshy plum about 100g soaked in vinegar, 3-5d after you can start using, each with 1 to 2, peel the plum fleshy layer (thin fleshy layer can be 2 to 3, pounding) on the affected area, ignite the moxa stick and moxibustion to the plum flesh, the heat to tolerate, do not overheat. 10d for 1 course of treatment. After 1 course of treatment, the symptoms improved significantly, and after 2 courses of treatment, the symptoms were basically cured. After six months of follow-up, the symptoms disappeared unconsciously, and now he is doing heavy farming work every day. (Wang Quansheng. 150 cases of heel bone spurs treated with moxibustion[J]. (Fujian Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1998, 29(3): 27-28.) 4.5.2 Moxibustion over ginger for the treatment of heel pain in 37 cases: Treatment: (1) Acupuncture point: A-Ye point. The patient takes a prone position with the knee bent and the bottom of the heel upward, usually the pressure point can be found at the midpoint or lateral edge of the bottom of the heel, and the skin is well marked with 1% gentian violet at the pressure point as the ayurvedic point. (2) Method: cut the ginger into thin slices about 0.2 cm thick and 1.5 cm in diameter, remove the moxa from the commercially available moxa strips, make a conical moxa cone about 1 cm in diameter at the bottom and 1 cm in height, and moxibustion at the A-Yi point with ginger, until the patient has obvious burning pain, then use the prepared metal bottle cap to quickly extinguish the moxa cone. Apply 3 strokes of moxibustion continuously. The moxibustion area should not be exposed to water on the same day after moxibustion. (3) Course of treatment: 1 time every 3 days, 2 times a week, 4 times a course, 1 course of treatment. The effect of treatment: 21 cases (56.8%) were cured because the pain disappeared completely when standing or walking; 14 cases (37.8%) were effective because the pain was significantly reduced when standing or walking; 2 cases (5.4%) were invalid because the condition did not change significantly after one course of treatment. The total effective rate was 94.6%. (Yang Yunkuan, Hu Youping, Rong Haibo. Treatment of 37 cases of heel pain with ginger moxibustion[J]. Chinese acupuncture, 2006, 26(6):405.)5. Clinical experience: moxibustion therapy for heel pain is effective, simple and worth promoting.