What season is suitable for moxibustion?

Man and nature are actually a unified and coordinated whole. Our daily living habits follow the laws of natural changes. Our health care should also be carried out according to seasonal changes, and the same is true for moxibustion. It is best to choose moxibustion in sunny weather, especially after noon for best health care. Because the Yang energy is very strong after the weekend, moxibustion at this time can better play the role of warming the Yang and dispersing the cold.

The ancients began to use moxibustion for health care and health preservation very early, and they knew which time or season of the year was best for moxibustion. For example, since the winter solstice, the yang energy of nature begins to revive and become abundant. The human body can follow the rising yang energy of nature and use Guanyuan moxibustion to strengthen the Yuan Yang. Guanyuan acupoint, also known as Dantian, has the functions of nourishing the kidney and strengthening the foundation, regulating Qi and restoring Yang. Moxibustion on it can replenish the vital energy and restore the loss. Therefore, it can eliminate all kinds of damage caused by fatigue and strengthen the Qi of the whole body. When the two Yangs complement each other, the effect will be doubled.

In addition, long-term illness can easily damage the Yang. In winter, the Yang, which is not strong to begin with, becomes even weaker due to the influence of nature. In this season, the Yin and Yang are obviously out of balance, so diseases are aggravated or induced in winter. If "solar term moxibustion" is used for prevention and treatment in the summer, which is the opposite of the season, the body can adapt to the influence and stimulation of the abundant Yang energy in nature in summer, and make the best use of the time when both nature and the body are relatively full of Yang energy in summer to treat the disease in accordance with the trend, so as to achieve the purpose of warming the original Yang, curing old diseases, balancing Yin and Yang and eliminating the root causes of diseases. Therefore, clinically, many chronic diseases that are aggravated or induced in winter can often achieve significant results if they can be treated in advance in the summer.

Which time or season of the year is best for moxibustion? Treating and preventing diseases in accordance with the laws of nature is a characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine. However, during certain special periods when seasons and climate change alternately, the human body is in a relatively weak state relative to the outside world. At this time, we should avoid it and reduce unfavorable factors. The "Taiping Shenghui Fang? Volume 100" clearly states that it is not suitable to moxibustion the human spirit in four seasons: "Spring is on the left rib, autumn is on the right rib, summer is on the navel, and winter is on the waist.

In fact, the choice of moxibustion season introduced above is only feasible for most people. It is still necessary to reasonably choose the moxibustion season or time based on the specific condition and the doctor's advice. Not everyone can do moxibustion for maintenance. For example, if you have chronic inflammation in the body or if you have a fever, you cannot do moxibustion.