Moxibustion is effective as an adjunctive treatment for adhesive bowel obstruction.
Adhesive intestinal obstruction belongs to the category of abdominal pain and intestinal knot in Chinese medicine.
Due to the patient’s dietary disorders, overwork, cold stagnation, blood stasis obstruction and other factors, its basic pathology is intestinal plaque, visceral qi is not accessible, so the treatment of adhesive intestinal obstruction should be through the attack, warming the qi, dispersal of cold and pain relief is given priority to.
Moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine theory, has the warming of yang through the veins, blood dispersal, dispersal of cold pain effects, modern research shows that moxibustion ingredients in the camphor, lobster brain, eucalyptus oil and other substances have anti-inflammatory pain, qi through the bowels of the efficacy of.
For adhesive intestinal obstruction, you can choose moxibustion foot Sanli and the middle epigastric points for treatment.
Adhesive intestinal obstruction patients are recommended to choose the appropriate treatment plan under the guidance of a professional doctor, combined with the characteristics of their own condition, moxibustion and other treatments need to go to the regular medical institutions.