The efficacy and function of mugwort fumigation

Mugwort fumigation has a very good preventive and health-care effect, and it has the effect of preventing diseases and strengthening the body. It can stimulate the body's positive energy, improve the body's disease resistance, and have a certain effect in dredging the meridians. It is also a relatively common physical therapy method. When using mugwort fumigation, you should also understand some techniques to avoid burns during use. Let us learn about this aspect.

The efficacy and function of mugwort fumigation

1. Disease prevention and health care. In other words, fumigating moxa leaves can stimulate the body's positive energy, enhance disease resistance, and have the effect of preventing diseases and maintaining health when there is no disease.

2. Warm the meridians and dispel cold. Because it is moxibustion fire, it has the effect of warming the meridians and dispelling cold evil.

3. Fuyang and Gutuo. It means that the heat generated by fumigating moxa leaves has the function of supporting Yang Qi and lifting the sunken and consolidating the body.

4. Eliminate blood stasis and resolve nodules. In other words, fumigation with moxa leaves has a certain effect of promoting blood circulation, promoting qi, eliminating blood stasis and dispersing swelling.

5. Heat induction is a layman. Because the warmth from fumigating moxa leaves can open the skin pores, unclog the hair pores, and allow the heat to escape, thus achieving the effect of drawing the heat out of the skin.

6. Kill germs. There was a proverb popular among the people: If you have mugwort at home for three years, you won’t need a doctor. The smoke produced by fumigating mugwort leaves can effectively inhibit the spread of various pathogens in the air, but it is harmless to humans and animals and is a natural "pesticide".

Techniques of fumigating moxa leaves

1. How to light moxa sticks

More careful friends may use a match to light it. Of course, the fire ignition is only limited to golden moxa, which has very few impurities and is very easy to ignite. The most common method is to use a lighter to ignite it. In some special cases, such as the thick moxa sticks used in thunder and fire moxibustion, they can be ignited with an alcohol lamp.

2. How to extinguish moxa sticks

During the moxibustion process, it is inevitable that many moxa sticks cannot be used up at once. So how to extinguish the moxa sticks correctly in this case? The common practice is to extinguish it in a bottle that is isolated from air. Or you can put out the fire with water and then dry it, or use a special fire extinguisher cap to extinguish it.

3. High-quality moxa stick brand

High-quality moxa stick brands include Hubei Qi Ai and Nanyang Han Yi. The moxa sticks from these two places are better mainly because the geographical location here makes it easier to produce high-quality moxa sticks. Secondly, this is the largest moxa stick production and distribution center in the country.

4. The smell of old moxa sticks is fragrant, without the grassy smell of modern moxa. The smoke from mugwort is light white, not strong or pungent, and has a fragrant smell. The moxa stick is upright and firm as a whole, not soft, and the fleece is soft and free of impurities. The color is velvety yellowish brown or golden yellow without the green color of wormwood. The fire is gentle and not strong, and the moxibustion feeling is strong. Moxa sticks with the above characteristics are considered good moxa sticks.