Which is better, fire therapy or moxibustion?

In modern urban society, everyone has varying degrees of dampness in their body, the main symptoms being: thick yellow tongue coating, sticky stools that stick to the toilet, constipation, loss of appetite, indigestion, etc. As we all know, fire therapy and moxibustion are both used to treat moisture in the body and detoxify the intestines, but which one is better? This article will briefly introduce these two health-preserving methods.

1. Which is better, fire therapy or moxibustion?

1. Fire therapy: Fire therapy is a method of moxibustion therapy, also known as fire dragon moxibustion. Fire therapy is a new method of health preservation that achieves weight loss, local body shaping, body five elements treatment, strengthening internal organs, and curing diseases and strengthening the body by burning fire all over the body. The masseur uses techniques such as tapping, pushing, kneading, rotating, pulling, etc. and applies medicinal and fire treatments to accelerate blood circulation in the body, increase metabolism, effectively transform and decompose fat, and enhance the function of internal organs. The project includes kidney nourishing fire therapy, stomach strengthening fire therapy, ovary maintenance fire therapy, back opening fire therapy, hand and foot fire therapy and other projects.

2. Moxibustion Moxibustion originated in ancient China. Because its mechanism of action is similar to that of acupuncture and it has a complementary therapeutic effect with acupuncture, acupuncture and moxibustion are usually used together, so it is called acupuncture. Acupuncture has a profound impact on treating diseases both at home and abroad, but when modern people talk about acupuncture, most of the time they only refer to acupuncture, and rarely include moxibustion. Moxibustion is a treatment method that uses the heat generated by moxibustion materials made of mugwort to stimulate acupuncture points or specific parts of the body surface, and adjusts the disordered physiological and biochemical functions of the human body by stimulating the activity of meridian qi, thereby achieving the purpose of preventing and curing diseases.

2. Can fire therapy remove moisture from the body?

Fire therapy can remove moisture from the body. Fire therapy is a comprehensive method that combines surface heat therapy, massage, and drug application. The effect is definitely better than a single method. Single massage will not reach the affected area if the force is not strong enough, surface heat therapy has a single effect, and the efficacy of drug compresses is concentrated in one place, while fire therapy combines the effects of the three, so the dehumidification effect is definitely better.

Fire therapy does have the effects of expelling cold and dampness, dredging meridians, removing stagnation, and promoting qi and blood circulation. For people with external dampness, the effect is more obvious, but people with internal dampness are more suitable for conditioning with Chinese medicine. This is also the reason why fire therapy for dehumidification is effective for some people but ineffective for others.

3. Symptoms of heavy dampness

When you wake up - look at your feelings. If you feel particularly tired, dizzy, and lack energy when you wake up every morning, or as if you are wearing wet clothes, your whole body is not refreshed, and you are too lazy to move... then you can be sure that there is dampness in your body.

When going to the toilet - look at the stool. After going to the toilet in the morning, you can observe the stool. Is it stuck to the toilet? Even a tank of water can't flush it away. If it is inconvenient to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. Normally, one or two pieces of paper are enough. If three or five pieces of paper cannot be wiped clean after repeated wiping, it also means that there is dampness in the body (this is why the medical questionnaire asks about bowel movements). The color and shape of the stool can also help determine whether there is dampness in the body. Normal stools are golden yellow and banana-shaped, but nowadays few people have this healthy stool. When there is dampness in the body, the stool will be blue in color, loose and soft without any shape, and there will always be a feeling of incomplete excretion (this is an important sign of spleen deficiency, which many people have).

When washing up - look at the tongue coating. We usually start washing up after going to the toilet. Before brushing our teeth, we might as well take a few seconds to look at our tongue in the mirror. “The tongue is the sprout of the heart and the external sign of the spleen.” The tongue can sensitively reflect our physical condition. A healthy tongue is pale pink and moist, with a thin, white and clear layer of tongue coating on the surface, with moderate dryness and wetness, neither slippery nor dry. If the tongue does not meet these indicators, it means that there is a problem with the body's functions.

If the tongue coating is white and thick, and looks smooth and moist, it means that there is cold in the body; if the tongue coating is rough or very thick, yellow and greasy, it means that there is damp heat in the body; if the tongue is red and has no coating, it means that the body is already hot to a certain degree and has damaged the yin.