As a fan of Chinese medicine, I stumbled around paying IQ tax in various marketing and business articles. Until a certain month, I thanked my moxibustion teacher for helping me open the curtain of real Chinese medicine.
Seeing that the world is full of articles such as "Moxibustion at xx point, living forever", I really don't know what irresponsible nonsense this is in the name of Chinese medicine. How long will it take to swallow up the power accumulated by Chinese medicine for thousands of years?
Now, as a lover of Chinese medicine, I will sort out the answers in Zhihu's book and tell you something about moxibustion as a popular science article that I think is more objective.
Moxibustion is one of several external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine, but it is definitely not the auxiliary treatment that many people say now. It can really cure diseases, and I am the beneficiary myself.
How good the role of moxibustion is, for ordinary people, you need to do at least the following to really understand.
1. Correct acupoint selection based on syndrome differentiation
2. Appropriate moxibustion methods and techniques
3. Qualified moxibustion materials
(in fact, there is another point above these points, which is another realm, and that is to adjust luck. However, this thing, people who know it and people who meet it, is relatively low-key. And I know very little about this field, so I really dare not comment here. )
Let's talk about the first and most important point. This is dialectical.
Moxibustion is guided by the system of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is bound to be inseparable from what Chinese medicine hears and asks. I didn't expect it.
In traditional Chinese medicine, whether it is prescription, moxibustion or scraping, it is necessary to treat it according to syndrome differentiation. Even the same disease may have many different causes.
Wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and heat are the six evils. The six evils can be internal or external. Lack of supplementing it, but actually eliminating it. The difference between reality and excess also determines the choice of acupoint matching and manipulation.
Moreover, if you are careful enough, you will find that the so-called same disease is actually a subtle difference.
It is recommended here that people who really need moxibustion learn tongue diagnosis.
Pulse diagnosis is too difficult to master, and it needs a lot of practice to master it well. Tongue diagnosis is easier than ordinary Chinese medicine lovers.
Then there is the matching point. In fact, the syndrome differentiation is accurate, but the requirements for acupoint matching are not so high. There are two principles: acupoint selection along the meridian, acupoint selection nearby and Ashi acupoint.
Just give an example. A person, the liver is too strong, the spleen is too strong. At this time, the performance is that the spleen and stomach are not good, only strengthening the spleen is not enough, but also purging the liver. Then I'll match the points of Zhongwan, Zusanli and Taichong.
The second point is the way and technique of moxibustion. (The moxibustion technique mentioned below is only a rough introduction. Direct moxibustion is a medical behavior. Please don't imitate at home. )
In ancient medicine in China, moxibustion refers to scar moxibustion in direct moxibustion. This is very powerful. Poke a pinch of moxa stick on the acupoint, light it and let it burn out. Then the acupoints blister and fester.
But scar moxibustion seems more painful. As modern people, many doctors are opposed to this operation, and patients are afraid to accept this treatment!
Then there are other things, such as wheat grain moxibustion, physical moxibustion, and finally moxa stick moxibustion, plus some moxibustion boxes and so on. Now it can be said that a hundred flowers are blooming.
But which moxibustion method is useful? Both of them are useful and have different strength. The more violent and direct, the greater the ability to have an effect on the human body.
In other words, the intensity of direct moxibustion, moxa stick moxibustion and moxibustion box is decreasing step by step, but the acceptance is indeed increasing.
In fact, personally, as a health care for ordinary people who are not sick, moxa stick moxibustion is enough.
What about technology? Generally, there are at least two methods: tonic method and purgative method.
As far as moxa stick moxibustion is concerned, there are several different ways to supplement it, some are whole meridian moxibustion, some are small area moxibustion, and the most commonly used one is a little moxibustion.
The third is the advantages and disadvantages of moxibustion materials, once again reminding everyone not to buy any gold moxa sticks for five years and ten years.
It can't be said that it is 100% fake, but even if it is true, as long as there is no such amount, the price will not be so close to the family. Third, it is said that someone really provided moxa sticks for five years, and later found that they had almost no medicinal taste, so they kept providing them.
According to my moxibustion teacher and several conscientious sellers, I will buy Ai Chen for one year, as long as I do so.
One-year-old wormwood looks khaki and emits white smoke when it burns. The smoke of moxa sticks and rises slowly. Ai is gray, very delicate and clean as soon as it is wiped.
As long as you do the above, over time, from a few minutes to a few months, moxibustion is no longer as simple as treating a disease, and you will gradually fall in love with it!
Postscript (same as postscript); Police sergeant ..
As for the sense of moxibustion that many people say, it does exist.
Personally, I think moxibustion is a normal reaction after the body is effectively stimulated, such as pain and numbness, heat flow along the meridians and moxibustion at the distal end.
Moxibustion not only has a sense of moxibustion, but also acupuncture, standing piles and meditation. But many things that can effectively cause the movement of human qi may make people feel these magical feelings, but there is no need to force them.
Whether it is moxibustion, acupuncture, scraping, standing piles, meditation, or other kungfu. When doing kung fu, live in the present body with peace of mind, settle down and settle down. Don't think too much, it's time to work hard and make achievements naturally.
That's it. As a die-hard fan of Chinese medicine, I have been a professional for many years, and I really hate those profiteers and quacks. Cheat money, kill people. It also ruined the entire Chinese medicine market.
But in the end, I still want to say that even if a person's conscience is broken, the method of Chinese medicine will not be bad. What's more, in the field of Chinese medicine, there are many young, hardworking and conscientious doctors who inherit Chinese medicine.
They have devoted their lives to Chinese medicine, practicing medicine every day and studying every night. As the inheritors of China culture, we share the same interests and at least have a fair and objective attitude towards them.