The benefits of moxibustion include harmonizing yin and yang, warming menstruation and dispersing cold, elevating yang and lifting sunken organs (elevating yang qi of the body to lift sunken organs), and harmonizing qi and blood, while the disadvantages include aggravating the symptoms of yin deficiency and burns.
1. Harmonize yin and yang: moxibustion can regulate the body’s yin and yang, combing qi, so that the internal environment of the human body is in a state of balance between yin and yang, so that the body can remain healthy.
2. Warming and dispersing cold: moxibustion is made of moxa cones lit, in the human body acupuncture points for smoking, moxa has the role of warming the meridian, moxibustion will produce heat, so moxibustion has the role of warming and dispersing cold, cold, cold hands and feet, cold cold and flu has a very good effect.
3. Lifting Yang: moxibustion can benefit the qi and warm the yang, lift the yang and support the yang to fix the prolapse (by replenishing the yang to treat prolapsed diseases), for prolapse of the anus, gastric prolapse, uterine prolapse and other qi and blood sagging diseases have a very good therapeutic effect.
4. Harmonize qi and blood: qi is the source of life, blood is the material basis, sufficient qi and blood, qi and qi, the normal life activities; on the contrary, it is easy to disease. Moxibustion can promote the body’s qi and blood circulation to speed up the role of combing qi.
However, it should be noted that moxibustion has the effect of raising the yang, Yin deficiency fire people, manifested in the usual dry mouth, thirst, yellow urine, dry stools, red tongue with little moss, etc., moxibustion is likely to aggravate the above symptoms. In addition, the process of moxibustion, if the time is too long or close to the skin, it is easy to burn.
When you need moxibustion treatment for physical discomfort, you should go to a traditional Chinese medicine hospital and choose the right acupuncture points to operate after identification by a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, so as to avoid side effects and burns.