Is moxibustion a good slimming therapy?

The reason why moxibustion can be used to lose weight is that it can generate heat in the body, causing the pores to expand. This helps increase the body's oxidation rate, and fat is burned unconsciously, making it effective for weight loss. Secondly, moxibustion can also be used in conjunction with Chinese medicinal materials such as mugwort to achieve the effects of promoting blood circulation and improving metabolism, and indirectly achieve a slimming effect.

Moxibustion therapy can help lose weight, prevent diseases and cure illnesses, and it has a history of thousands of years in my country. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people had begun to widely use moxibustion. For example, there is a record in "Zhuangzi" that "the Yue people fumigate with moxa" and "Mencius" that "seven years of illness require three years of moxa treatment." It is ubiquitous in medical works of all dynasties. Moxibustion can stimulate and improve the body's immune function and enhance the body's disease resistance.

Excessive accumulation of fat in the human body causing overweight is called obesity. It is caused when the body's calorie intake exceeds its calorie consumption, resulting in excessive accumulation of fat in the body. Whether a person is fat or thin depends on the number of fat cells in the body and the lipid content in the fat cells. Most people who become obese after adulthood have enlarged cells without a significant increase in the number of fat cells. Moxibustion stimulates acupuncture points, adjusts the balance of qi and blood in the body's meridians and internal organs, promotes gastrointestinal motility, reduces fat absorption, increases its excretion, and achieves the effect of weight loss.

Dazhui: Location: below the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra. Indications: It is effective for facial diseases caused by blood dryness, blood stasis or excessive blood viscosity. Yaoyangguan: Location: below the spinous process of the fourth lumbar vertebra. Indications: endocrine imbalance, excessive arm hypertrophy, male impotence, spermatorrhea, etc. Zhongwan: Location: On the anterior midline of the upper abdomen, four inches above the navel. Main indications: It can enhance the stomach's ability to digest and absorb food, and can also treat stomach pain, stomach acid, vomiting, etc.

Although moxibustion can help you lose weight, it is not suitable in some cases. For example, you should not do moxibustion when you are on an empty stomach, or when you are too full, or after drinking alcohol. In addition, if you are particularly tired, or have latent disease that has not been treated, you should not do moxibustion. Moxibustion is not suitable for infants and young children, and people who are in a coma should not be treated with moxibustion.