What causes cold joints? If your joints are cold, use moxibustion on the Mingmen acupoint

The joints of the human body are more susceptible to cold. In traditional Chinese medicine, there is a method to treat cold joints, which is moxibustion. So, if the joints are afraid of cold, which part is better to moxibustion?

The importance of health care

Literally, "ming" means life and "men" refers to the passageway of entrance and exit. Together, they mean the passageway of life. It may sound a bit mysterious to say that Mingmen is the gateway that controls life, but Chinese medicine does attach great importance to the function of Mingmen acupoint. Regular massage of the Mingmen acupoint can strengthen the kidneys, warm the kidneys and strengthen the yang, strengthen the waist and knees, and consolidate the kidney Qi. It can treat cold and pain in the waist, enuresis, diarrhea, male spermatorrhea, and impotence, as well as women's cold and menstrual disorders, habitual abortion, etc. It can also delay the aging of the human body, dredge the stagnant points of Qi on the Du meridian, strengthen its connection with the Ren meridian, and promote the circulation of true Qi on the Ren and Du meridians.

To maintain health and prevent diseases, you should pay attention to keeping your lower abdomen, waist and back warm. Nowadays, many women like to wear belly-revealing clothes, which can cause great harm to the body. Although it is beautiful--BC, it will affect the menstrual period over time and cause symptoms such as rich and cold dysmenorrhea. When Western medicine performs surgery, it often chooses the area near the Mingmen acupoint for anesthesia. Many people suffer from back pain, fatigue and weakness after surgery. This is related to the damage of kidney qi. The maintenance of the Mingmen acupoint should be given enough attention!

Moxibustion Methods

When massaging the Mingmen acupoint, you don’t have to worry about the method or time. You can just massage it when it is convenient to achieve health-care effects. Moxibustion on the Mingmen acupoint is more effective. After lighting one end of the moxa stick, hold it 2 to 3 cm away from the skin and moxibustion the Mingmen acupoint until there is a local warmth sensation without any burning pain. Moxibustion lasts for 30 to 60 minutes each time, until a red flush appears on the local skin. Moxibustion should be done once a week. This method can effectively alleviate many symptoms of yang deficiency, such as cold hands and feet in women, cold joints in the elderly, frequent urination in men, etc. For daily health care, you can do moxibustion for about 15 minutes each time, once every other day.

The Mingmen point is easy to find because it is opposite to our belly button. Therefore, when we are looking for this point, we just need to make a circle around the waist with the belly button as the center. The intersection of this circle and the midline of the back is the point.

Other functions of Mingmen

① Male diseases such as spermatorrhea, impotence, premature ejaculation, etc.:

② Irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea and other gynecological diseases:

③ Urinary system diseases such as enuresis and frequent urination:

④ Lumbar pain, lower limb paralysis:

⑤ Diarrhea, lower abdomen; pain.