Health care moxibustion to help you avoid joint pain on “southern days”

  The weather in Guangdong in mid-spring March is unpredictable, hot and cold, cloudy and sunny, and recently it has entered the unique Guangdong “back to the south”. The humidity in the air suddenly increases and even the hygrometer at home will explode, the walls and floors will be “watery”, everywhere is a wet scene, the outdoors is covered by “dense fog”, many people will be heavy and sleepy, the stomach and abdomen distended, and even do not think about eating or loose stool diarrhea Many middle-aged and elderly people begin to complain of joint pain, acidity and heavy, unfavorable action, which seriously affects the quality of life. It is all the fault of “dampness”. Professor Fu Wenbin teaches you how to do health care moxibustion at home to easily cope with the return of southern days.  Professor Fu points out that spring is in the five elements of wood, the five organs of the human body, the liver is also wood, so the spring energy through the liver. The spring season is supposed to be a time for the liver energy to rise and shine. In the Nei Jing, it is said that “the liver is the essence of the extreme, the residence of the soul, and its flower is in the claws, and its fullness is in the tendons, to produce blood and energy. Chinese medicine believes that liver blood can moisten the tendons, but dampness is trapped in the body, it affects the liver’s promotion, liver Qi is depressed, then cross-rebellion offend the spleen, spleen deficiency is wet with phlegm and dampness is more abundant, liver and spleen interact, then the blood does not glory tendons and phlegm and dampness remain in the joints of the limbs and pain. The method should be to warm the yang and strengthen the spleen, move the qi and transform the dampness.  The following points should be taken: Zhongshang, Shenqu, Feet Sanli, Quchi, Inner and outer knee eyes, Yanglingquan and Yinlingquan.  Positioning: Zhongyi: located in the upper abdomen, on the front median line, 4 inches above the umbilicus.  Shen Que: in the central part of the umbilicus.  Foot San Li: on the anterolateral side of the lower leg, 3 inches below the calvarium, one cross finger (middle finger) from the front edge of the tibia.  Qu Chi: bend the elbow at a right angle, at the lateral end of the transverse elbow stripe, at the midpoint of the line connecting the ulnar ze and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus.  Knee eye: bend the knee, in the depression on both sides of the patellar ligament, in the medial side is called the inner knee eye, in the lateral side is called the outer knee eye.  Yanglingquan: on the lateral side of the calf, in the depression below the front of the small head of the fibula.  Yinlingquan: on the inner side of the calf, in the depression below the back of the medial tibial condyle.    Operation method: Moxibustion with moxa stick, about 5-10 minutes per point, until the skin appears red.  Adhere to the above points, not only to help you relieve joint pain symptoms and improve the function of movement, but also to keep you away from heavy body sleepiness, bloating, loose stools and diarrhea, which are symptoms of dampness.  In addition, in the spring when it is still warm and cold, with local joint warming and appropriate soup to dispel dampness can also help!