Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China
Moxibustion is an old therapy of Chinese medicine which has been used for many years. This article is just show some of the functions about it.
Curing Insomnia
Moxibustion at both sides of Yongquan can make people calm and feel quiet. If added with Zusanli, which can make energy and blood grow well, the function of curing insomnia will be much better.
Hairdressing
May 5th in the traditional Chinese calendar is Dragon Boat Festival of China. At this time of year, wormwood is grown and can be seen and smelled around us. Wormwood is such an useful plant that it can be cooked, using as a material of delicious soup, taken to cure disease, driven mosquito. Moreover, it is even a raw material of perfume.
However, I am obliged to say that moxibustion is the most formidable function of wormwood itself. And this therapy is used for many hundreds years, which is now be fashionable again among modern people. Read more…
During neolithic times, people learned how to make stonewares of different use. Then a special stone for medical practice only was created, which was the predecessor of acupuncture.
When using fire to keep warm, our ancestor found that heat was good for relieving pain. So they packed heated stones or sandy soil with animal skin and bark, and attach them on some part of the body. This was the original hot compression.
With the improvement of this skill, branch and hay were used as fuel of hot compression. The therapy of heating stimulate for some parts of the body cured many diseases, which was the predecessor of moxibustion, which is the other part of acupuncture.
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