What is the effect of moxibustion during the dog days

The dog days of summer are the hottest period of the year. Moxibustion can be performed during this period because it can achieve the best effect. Many people who advocate health preservation like to do moxibustion during the dog days of summer. Regular moxibustion can relax muscles and activate blood circulation, dredge people's meridians and improve immunity. Let’s take a look at the effects of moxibustion during the dog days.

Moxibustion and Health Preservation in the Dog Days

1. The regulating effect on meridians. The drugs with warming properties have an effect similar to moxibustion on local stimulation. They have the effects of warming the meridians, dredge the collaterals, promote qi and blood circulation, and remove dampness and dissipate cold. Moreover, through the adjustment of meridians, it can achieve the effects of tonifying deficiency and purging excess, promoting the balance of yin and yang, and preventing diseases and maintaining health.

2. Local stimulation. Local drug stimulation stimulates the body's regulatory function through nerve reflex, causes the formation of certain antibodies in the body, thereby improving the body's immune function and playing a preventive and therapeutic role in some allergic diseases.

3. The effect of the drug itself. The drug penetrates through the skin to the subcutaneous tissue, produces a relative advantage in drug concentration locally, and exerts a strong pharmacological effect. At the same time, the drug stimulates local acupuncture points to stimulate the meridian qi of the whole body, and is absorbed and transported through tiny blood vessels to exert the maximum pharmacological effect.

4. Take advantage of the "dog days", the hottest time of the year, when the human body's yang energy is at its peak, to stimulate the body's acupuncture points, and through the action of drugs, play a benign role in enhancing the body's resistance, strengthening the body and eliminating evil. (In addition, there is also the Sanjiu moxibustion in winter, which also uses the coldest period of the year to treat diseases)

Precautions for moxibustion during the dog days

Dog Days

1. The skin will feel hot after treatment. Due to different individual skin tolerance, the appropriate application time for adults is 2 hours, and for children is 1 hour. The application time should be such that the patient feels a spicy sensation at the site of application but can tolerate it. It should not be too long to avoid skin burns.

2. It is normal for the skin to turn red after applying the medicine. You can apply skin ointment to relieve the irritation. If the medicine is applied for too long and causes blisters, you should protect the wound surface to avoid scratching and infection. Go to the hospital for treatment or apply burn ointment when necessary. Avoid eating foods that are prone to suppuration, such as beef, roast goose, duck, peanuts, taro, etc.

3. It is best not to take a cold shower on the day of applying the medicine, so as not to drive away the "yang energy". Individual citizens who experience skin allergies can apply anti-allergic ointment or go to the hospital for treatment. On the day of Sanfu moxibustion, it is forbidden to eat raw, cold and irritating foods, oily, thick and greasy foods that produce phlegm and dampness, and chicken, duck, goose, beef, mutton, shrimp, crab and other seafood, so as not to affect the treatment effect.