What is the cause of blistering during moxibustion?

As people's living standards continue to improve, health care is receiving more and more attention. Since the reform and opening up, people's health care consumption expenditure has accounted for an increasingly large proportion of household expenses. As a traditional Chinese medicine health care and disease treatment method, moxibustion has also attracted much attention in recent years. Moxibustion can be considered a green therapy. No drugs are needed during the treatment and there are no side effects. Even so, moxibustion can sometimes cause unexpected side effects, such as blisters on the skin. Here we will explain what this phenomenon is.

Blisters caused by moxibustion are caused by poor control of heat and the presence of pathogenic qi in the body. Sometimes blisters occur due to both factors, including the scalding factor and the presence of pathogenic qi in the body, which indicates that there is still pathogenic qi somewhere that causes the blisters. Because of the bubbling issue, I would like to say a few more words. You must control the heat yourself. If you feel too hot, don't grit your teeth and endure it. Be sure to prepare extra pillowcases or handkerchiefs so that you can put them under the moxa cup when you feel hot. Especially when sweating and heat are present, the chance of blisters will be greater. It is like when we steam buns at home. When the heat is very high, the steam is also large. If the steam hits your hands at this time, blisters will form. That is what I want to remind everyone, during the moxibustion process, especially for people who sweat easily, you must not overheat, as overheating will definitely cause blisters.

Of course, some people have a cold constitution and cannot feel the heat, but they will also get bubbles, which is a way for the disease to be expelled. People with severe coldness often tell me that they cannot feel any heat during moxibustion, and always say that the moxibustion cup is not hot either. There are two factors here. The first is that the cold air in the body is against the heat under the skin, and the nerves are no longer sensitive. This requires a process. After a certain period of moxibustion, the body surface will become colder and colder, and the parts that touch will feel very hot, but the patient himself cannot feel the heat. When the cold air is forced out of the body surface, it is like leading the meridians out, and the patient will gradually feel that the body surface is no longer afraid of cold.

The reasons for blisters caused by moxibustion have been introduced above. In fact, after moxibustion, in addition to blisters, it can also cause many problems, such as insomnia, or getting angry after moxibustion, or some allergy-like reactions in the body after moxibustion. If these phenomena are not serious, they will improve on their own without any special treatment.