Moxibustion

How Moxibustion Works

Moxibustionis a therapeutic method by burning combustible materials or applying some drug-compress or drug-platser over the acupoint or affected area to produce warm-hot stimulation to the patient, which acts on the acupoint or the affected area and is conducted though the channel so that the equilibrium of the bodily physical function would be adjusted.

The moxibustion is applied widely, which may be employed for either acute diseases, heart syndromes, diseases of the channel, and exterior syndromes, and diseases or the viscera. It may serve to the warm the meridian to expel cold, to promote blood circulation to cause analgetic effect, to relieve depression to qi to remove obstruction, to dispel wind to relieve the exterior syndrome, to recuperate yang and rescure the patient from collapse (resurrect), to reinforce middle-jiao and replenish qi, to prevent diseases and keep healthy, and so on. In clinical practice, mozibustion is applied in treatment of arthraglia due to wind-cold-dampness, dysmenorrheal, abdominal pain and diarrhea, prolapsed, visceroptosis, enuresis, cold, hernia, collapse, and shock, as well as carbuncle at the first stage or with untractable ulcer, and some other disorders.