How to Moxibustion the Navel

Moxibustion is currently a common health care method in Traditional Chinese Medicine. As we all know, the human body is composed of many acupoints. Different acupoints represent different parts of the body. Moxibustion of different acupoints has many benefits for health. Many parts of the body can be moxibustioned, such as the belly button. Although moxibustion of the belly button is good, you must go to a regular and professional institution when doing moxibustion.

How to Moxibustion the Navel

1. The simplest method is to lie flat and use a moxibustion cup, also known as a moxibustion box, to directly moxibustion the navel to enhance a person's innate strength, that is, immunity. Or you can use moxa sticks for direct moxibustion, which is to hang the burning moxa stick about 1 cm above the navel, until you feel a warm sensation, but not too hot. Each moxibustion session lasts 15 to 30 minutes, once a day. Ten sessions constitute one course of treatment. 3 to 5 courses of treatment can be performed at irregular intervals throughout the year. Moxibustion is more effective in autumn and winter. This method has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on gastrointestinal dysfunction, neurasthenia and other diseases caused by physical weakness. For those with allergic rhinitis, moxibustion at Shenque has a good preventive and therapeutic effect.

How to use moxibustion on belly button

2. Moxibustion through ginger: Take a piece of fresh ginger, cut it into thin slices about 0.3-0.5cm thick (slightly larger than the navel), pierce several holes in the center with a needle, place it flat on the navel, place a moxa cone on it and light it for moxibustion. When you feel burning pain, you can slightly lift the ginger slice and the moxa cone away from the skin for a moment, then put it down after a while, or replace the moxa cone immediately. Moxibustion should be performed for 15 to 20 minutes each time, once every other day, 10 times a month. It is best to start moxibustion at the winter solstice. Moxibustion with ginger can warm the body and promote ventilation. Some people have a very bloated stomach and have difficulty defecating. This method can be used for such people as long as they do not have a hot constitution but are weak and cold.

How to use moxibustion on belly button

3. Salt-separated moxibustion: It is a moxibustion method that uses salt as a separator and is only suitable for the navel. The method is: also lying flat, grind or fry an appropriate amount of pure dry salt, fill the navel, then put ginger slices and moxa cones on it for moxibustion. If the patient has a protruding navel, you can use wet noodles to surround the navel like a well mouth, and then fill salt into the navel, and apply moxibustion like moxibustion through ginger. The purpose of adding ginger slices is to separate the fire source of salt and moxa cone to prevent the salt from exploding when encountering fire and causing burns. Generally, moxibustion is applied 3 to 9 times. For acute diseases, more moxibustion can be applied according to the condition, without limitation on the number of moxibustions. This method has the effect of restoring yang and rescuing patients from adverse conditions, such as acute abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, cold limbs and collapse. For any case of collapse with profuse sweating, loss of yang, cold limbs and weak pulse, you can use large moxa cones for continuous moxibustion, regardless of the number of times, until the sweating stops, the pulse starts to rise, the body temperature returns to normal, and the symptoms improve.

The effect of moxibustion on the belly button

1. Health preservation

The slightly warm air flow spreads from the navel to the entire abdomen, promoting gastrointestinal motility, accelerating the discharge of toxins from the body, improving sleep, and making people feel extremely relaxed, comfortable, and energetic both mentally and physically.

2. Lose weight

Obesity refers to a condition in which the body consumes more calories than it burns, resulting in an abnormal increase in fat tissue. According to TCM theory, obesity is caused by water toxicity and blood toxicity. Many people become obese due to water metabolism disorders and water vapor retention. This is mainly due to spleen and stomach yang deficiency, failure to transport and transform, and stagnation of body fluids. Therefore, umbilical therapy can be used to warm the yang and replenish qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, warm and nourish the lower abdomen, promote blood circulation and activate collaterals, improve nerve and fluid regulation and immune ability, strengthen the physiological activities and pathological changes of internal organs and tissues, enhance the body's immunity and disease resistance, and achieve the purpose of preventing and curing diseases.

3. Strengthen the spleen and stomach, produce clear and reduce turbid

Moxibustion on the navel can strengthen the spleen and stomach functions, make the rising yang rise and the turbid yin descend, so as to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, harmonize the stomach and reduce adverse reactions. Used for stomachache, nausea, fullness, vomiting, diarrhea, etc.

4. Beauty

Promoting facial blood circulation can improve facial paleness and dullness, and prevent and reduce skin problems such as pigmentation and dullness caused by poor circulation.