Is moxibustion useful for treating melasma?

Moxibustion for treating chloasma is actually a method of TCM conditioning, which mainly helps us regulate the body from the inside out to improve chloasma. However, we must pay attention to the correct acupuncture points to avoid causing other adverse effects, and treatment should be done every other day.

1. Modern medicine believes that chloasma is caused by endocrine disorders, which are mostly related to dysfunction of the liver, spleen, and kidneys, and are by no means caused by local lesions of the facial skin. Therefore, only by combining internal and external factors and taking both the symptoms and the root causes into consideration can the Qi and blood be abundant, the organs function normally, and the Yin and Yang be coordinated. Only in this way can chloasma be eliminated. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that moxibustion therapy can have a good therapeutic effect.

2. Acupoint selection for moxibustion treatment of chloasma

1. Shenque point: warms the Yang, rescues from adverse conditions, promotes diuresis and consolidates collapse. It is mainly used to treat dysentery, abdominal pain around the navel, rectal prolapse, cold uterus and infertility, stroke, edema, enteritis, and postpartum urinary retention.

2. Zusanli: It has a strengthening and health-care effect on the body, can improve the body's absorption of nutrients and enhance immunity. It also has a therapeutic effect on stomachache, vomiting, abdominal distension, breast pain, constipation, edema, and tuberculosis.

3. Specific operation methods of moxibustion treatment of chloasma

Moxibustion method: Cut fresh ginger into slices with a diameter of 2-3 cm and a thickness of about 0.2-0.3 cm. Make a hole in the middle, absorb the ginger juice, and then place it on the moxibustion head, such as the Shenque point and bilateral Zusanli points. The skin will feel warm after moxibustion.

Effects of moxibustion: 1. Nourish the kidney essence, strengthen the spleen and stomach to prevent new blood stasis, purify the blood, and relieve pain and blood stasis. 2. Cultivate Yang Qi, warm and circulate blood, blood circulation will dissolve blood stasis, and remove long-accumulated stasis (brown spots).

Operation method: Treatment once a day or every other day, duration: 20~30 minutes. One course of treatment is 10 times.