The efficacy and function of fumigation of wormwood leaves

Fumigation with mugwort leaves is a common traditional treatment method. Fumigation with mugwort leaves can increase the surface temperature of the skin and has a certain effect in promoting skin congestion and capillary dilation. It is also effective in dredging the meridians, preventing diseases, and maintaining health. It has the effect of treating some diseases, such as cervical spondylosis and some gastrointestinal diseases.

The efficacy and function of fumigation of wormwood leaves

Fumigation with moxa leaves is a health care method preferred by many people nowadays. Do you know the effects and functions of fumigation with moxa leaves? Let’s take a look together below!

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".

Methods of fumigating moxa leaves

Fumigation with moxa sticks is not only the best way to remove cold and dampness, but also can dredge the meridians. It is a health care method that many people like nowadays! So how is the fumigation of moxa leaves made? Now let me introduce to you the method of fumigating moxa leaves!

1. Cut the ginger into very thin slices, steam it until hot and soft and set aside.

2. Use 6 to 8 clean moxa sticks in summer (8 to 10 in winter), go to the stationery store to buy a big clip, clamp the moxa sticks, or use tape to tie the moxa sticks into a row and light them.

3. Stick the steamed ginger slices on your back. Light the rows of moxa sticks, keep them half an inch to an inch away from the ginger slices, and move them slowly up and down. Usually smoked for 30 to 40 minutes. When you feel pain, try to move away.

One thing to note is that some people may feel obvious burning and pain when first fumigating. This is because the meridians are blocked and a large amount of heat cannot dissipate quickly. If the meridians on the back are unobstructed, even if the whole row of moxa sticks are very close to the back, you will not feel pain, only a warm and comfortable feeling. After fumigation, remove the ginger slices. As long as the skin under the ginger slices is wet and the ginger slices are also wet, it means that there is a lot of cold and dampness in the body. For people with less cold and dampness in their bodies, after using a large amount of moxa sticks for dozens of minutes, the ginger slices should be crisp and the skin should be dry.

4. Stick ginger slices around the lower abdomen and navel, and fumigate for 20 to 30 minutes.

5. Fumigate the outside and inside of both calves, from ankles to knees, up and down, and back and forth 30 to 50 times each.