Moxibustion and Gua Sha both have the benefits of being portable, easy to operate, less painful and easily accepted by patients. Moxibustion has the effect of preventing disease and health care, warming the meridians and dispersing cold, supporting the yang fixed off (through the way to treat prolapse of yang qi), eliminating stasis and dissipation of knots, gua sha has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and benefiting the qi to support the efficacy of the correct and so on.
1. Moxibustion has the effect of warming the meridians and collaterals, elevating Yang to lift the sagging (elevating the Yang Qi of the organism to lift the sagging organs), promoting Qi and blood circulation, dispelling cold and dampness, eliminating swelling and dispersing lumps and knots, and restoring Yang to save the body from fainting and unconsciousness (through warming Yang Qi to save the body from fainting, unconsciousness, etc.), etc., and it can be used for health care. Moxibustion therapy has a wide range of adaptability, and is especially suitable for chronic debilitating diseases and diseases afflicted by wind, cold and dampness.
Pregnant women’s abdomen and lumbar-sacral area is forbidden to moxibustion; the patient’s face, large blood vessels, joints, some points near the eyes (such as the eyeball point, the silk bamboo hollow point, the pupil’s eye, etc.) should not be used with scarab moxibustion.
2. gua sha therapy has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing heat and removing toxins, benefiting qi and supporting correctness, and regulating tendons and collaterals, etc. It is especially suitable for the treatment of exopathic diseases and painful diseases.
Scraping Gua Sha force should be even, from light to heavy, in order to be able to withstand the degree; generally scrape to the skin appears flushed, purple red color changes, or appear corn grain, papule-like spots, or flake, stripes plaques and other morphology changes, and accompanied by local hot feeling or slight pain. For some patients who are not easy to produce gua sha or less gua sha, should not be forced to produce gua sha.
Discomfort should be timely medical treatment, in the physician’s diagnosis and guidance to choose the appropriate treatment, so as not to delay the condition.