As a TCM fan, I stumbled through various marketing and business articles, paying IQ tax everywhere. Until one year and one month, thanks to my moxibustion teacher, helped me lift the corner of the door curtain of the real Chinese medicine.
Seeing that the world is now full of "moxibustion xx points, immortality" and other articles, I really do not know that this under the banner of Chinese medicine, irresponsible nonsense. To when, can the Chinese medicine thousands of years of accumulation of power, eat clean.
Now, as a Chinese medicine enthusiast, I know the answer to organize a bit, as a self-considered objective science article, for everyone to say about moxibustion.
Moxibustion, one of several external treatments in Chinese medicine, is definitely not an adjunctive therapy, as many people say nowadays. It really does heal, and I've been a beneficiary of it myself.
How well moxibustion works for the average person needs to do at least the following to really appreciate it.
1. Correct identification and matching points
2. Appropriate moxibustion methods and techniques
3. Qualified moxibustion materials
(In fact, there is one more point on top of all of these points, which is something in another realm, that is, tuning the spirit and luck. But this is something that those who know and those who will, are more understated. And I know very little about this realm, so I really don't dare to comment here.)
Let's start with the first and most important point. That is to recognize the evidence.
Moxibustion is guided by the system of Chinese medicine, so it is inevitable that it is inseparable from the Chinese medicine of observation and diagnosis. I didn't expect it, did I?
In Chinese medicine, whether it is prescribing medicine, or moxibustion, scraping, all need to recognize the evidence. Even the same condition can have many different causes.
Wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness, heat are six evils. The six evils can be internal or external. If they are weak, they can be supplemented, and if they are real, they can be cured. The difference between the real and the imaginary also determines the selection of points and techniques.
And, if you are careful enough, you will find that the so-called same condition, in fact, between the subtle, different.
Here, I recommend that anyone who really needs moxibustion to learn tongue diagnosis.
Pulse diagnosis is too difficult to grasp, and requires a lot of practice to get it right. Tongue diagnosis, on the other hand, is easier for the average Chinese medicine enthusiast.
Then there are the acupuncture points. The first two principles are to take the points according to the meridian, and to take the points nearby, and to take the A-shi points.
An example. A person, the liver wood is too strong, counteracting the spleen earth. At this point, the performance is the spleen and stomach is not good, only the spleen can not, but also diarrhea liver wood. Then I will match the acupuncture points in the center of the stomach, foot Sanli, Taichong.
The second point is the way of moxibustion and the technique. (The moxibustion technique mentioned below is only a rough introduction, direct moxibustion is a medical practice, please do not imitate at home without authorization.
In ancient Chinese medicine, moxibustion refers to direct moxibustion in the scar moxibustion. This one is awesome. Take a small pinch of moxa, poke it into an acupuncture point, light it, and let him burn out. Then the acupuncture point blisters and pus.
But scar moxibustion seems, the pain level is larger. Being modern, many doctors are against this operation, and patients are afraid to accept this treatment!
The other is wheat grain moxibustion, spacer moxibustion, and finally moxa moxibustion, plus some moxibustion box, now can be said to be blossoming.
But in the end, which kind of moxibustion is useful? The more violent and more direct, the greater the ability to produce effects on the human body.
That is, direct moxibustion, moxa moxibustion, moxibustion box, the intensity of the role of the diminishing, but acceptance is really climbing.
In fact, I thought, as the average person is not sick health care, moxa moxibustion is enough.
The technique, generally at least, will be divided into complementary and diarrhea.
In terms of moxibustion, there are several different techniques used for different occasions, some of which are moxibustion of the entire meridian, some of which are a small area, the most common technique is to moxibustion at a defined point.
The third is that the material of moxibustion is good or bad, again remind everyone, do not buy what gold Ai, five years ten years Ai.
We can not say that 100% false, but even if there is true, it is not the amount, the price will not be so loved ones, three, it is said that some people really put the Ai for five years, and then found that there is almost no taste of medicine, it has been provided.
According to my moxibustion teacher, and a few conscientious sellers recommended, buy a year old, as long as it is made in the same way, enough.
A year-old moxa that is made in the same way looks yellowish, and burns out white smoke. The smoke is condensed but not dispersed, and rises slowly. Ai ash white delicate, on the hands of a wipe on the clean.
As long as you do the above points, with time, as little as a few minutes, as many as a few months, moxibustion for you, is no longer a cure so simple, you will slowly love it!
PS.
As for the moxibustion feeling that many people say, it does happen.
Personally, I believe that moxibustion is a normal reaction to effective stimulation of the body, soreness, numbness, swelling and pain, heat flow through the meridians, distal moxibustion, will be there.
Not only moxibustion will have moxibustion, acupuncture, stumps, meditation, etc., a lot of things that can effectively cause the body's qi movement, may be able to produce these magical feelings, but there is no need to force.
Whether it's moxibustion, or acupuncture, or gua sha, or staking, or meditating, or whatever. When you are doing kung fu, you have to settle your mind on the body in the present moment, and live on it peacefully. Don't think too much about what's going on, and when you're done, you're going to be able to do it.
That's it, I as a Chinese medicine hardcore fans, many years of stepping on the pit professional, truly hate those treacherous quacks. The first thing I've learned is that the most important thing you can do is to get your hands dirty. The whole market of Chinese medicine has also been spoiled.
But in the end, I still want to say, even if people's conscience is bad, but the method of Chinese medicine will not be bad. What's more, in TCM, there are still a lot of young, kung fu, conscientious physicians who are inheriting TCM.
They have devoted their whole life to Chinese medicine, practicing day by day and reading night by night. And we, as the inheritors of Chinese culture, with the same breath, at least have a fair and objective attitude towards them.