How to use moxibustion to remove coldness from the knees?

Moxibustion is a common treatment method in Traditional Chinese Medicine and is particularly popular among many people today. It can treat many diseases. Even if it is not used to treat diseases, it can also play a role in regulating the body, especially for some middle-aged and elderly people. When the body is invaded by cold air, this treatment method can be used to drive away the cold air. So, how to use moxibustion to remove the coldness in the knees?

Old cold legs are a degenerative disease in the elderly and are also a common disease that often plagues the elderly. As a common disease that often troubles the elderly, the impact of cold legs on middle-aged and elderly people can be seen everywhere, such as frequent knee pain, inability to go up and down stairs, cold legs and knees, and difficulty in squatting and walking long distances. Faced with these problems, middle-aged and elderly people are often troubled by them, and their children don’t know how to solve them. Here, we will teach you how to use moxibustion skillfully to get rid of your parents’ cold legs and be a good filial son or daughter!

Conditioning method 1: moxibustion on Heding point and Yanglingquan point

1. Yanglingquan is an acupuncture point on the gallbladder meridian, located in the depression in front and below the head of the fibula on the outside of the knee joint. It is mainly used to treat lower limb and knee joint diseases such as paralysis and swollen and painful knee joints.

2. Heding is a special point. The patient bends his knees to locate the point, which is in the depression above the midpoint of the patellar base. It is mainly used to treat various knee joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, knee joint pain, leg and foot weakness, lower limb atrophy, paralysis, athlete's foot, and sequelae of cerebrovascular disease.

Conditioning method 2: moxibustion Weizhong acupoint

Located at the midpoint of the popliteal fossa transverse line, this point is one of the important acupoints on the foot-sun bladder meridian of the human body. The main symptoms treated by Weizhong point are: sciatica, calf fatigue, stomach pain, neck pain, lower back pain or fatigue, hip pain, and knee pain.

Warm suggestion: aim the burning moxa stick at the above-mentioned acupuncture points, and use the heat and medicinal effects of moxibustion to reach the meridians directly. Continue for about 25 minutes, about 3 times a week. If you persist in this way for a period of time, you will definitely get unexpected results. In addition, if you also pinch the inner and outer muscles above the knee joint for 5 minutes every day, and then press and rub the Zusanli point for 5 minutes. Moxibustion and massage combined will help your parents' old cold legs recover faster.