Does moxibustion help rheumatoid conditions?

Today's beginning of winter indicates that winter has quietly arrived
.
Some rheumatoid patients may have begun to plan for a warm sun and a warm winter
.
Among them, there may be patients who want to use moxibustion for conditioning
.

Does moxibustion help rheumatoid conditions? Today, Dr.
Huang Minyue came to tell us about
it.

01The help of moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine for rheumatoid conditions

In the medicine of the motherland, rheumatoid belongs to the category of "paralysis", also known as "paralysis", "calendar", "stubborn paralysis" and so on
.

There are clouds in the "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic": "Righteous qi exists in the inside, evil cannot be done", "Wind and rain, cold and heat must not be empty, and evil cannot hurt people
alone.
" ”

All these as a whole illustrate the internal basis for the occurrence of paralysis, which is actually positive and false and external defense
.
Positive and false is the essence, and external evils such as wind and cold and wet are the markers
.

The "Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon" also said: "If the needle is not done, moxibustion is appropriate
.
" "When acupuncture alone is ineffective, moxibustion can be considered
.
Moxibustion has the effect of warming meridians and activating blood paralysis, and for rheumatoid patients, whether it is to treat the root cause or the symptoms, it can achieve good results
.

02Verification of the efficacy of modern medical moxibustion on rheumatoid

In addition to the records of traditional medicine, is there any relevant verification of the effect of moxibustion in the adjuvant treatment of rheumatoid?

According to a 2016 study [2], the total effective rate of the treatment group combining drugs and acupuncture for rheumatoid treatment was 80% during the two-month treatment cycle, and the total effective rate of the treatment group that added moxibustion was 97.
5%.

In addition, it was also recorded in 2017 [3], after 4 courses of wheat moxibustion treatment for 60 rheumatoid patients, the total effective rate reached 96.
7%, and the symptoms of patients before and after treatment were significantly improved
.

These all show that moxibustion can effectively improve the condition of rheumatoid patients, and has a good adjuvant therapeutic effect
on the improvement of patients' conditions.
Therefore, rheumatoid patients can use moxibustion to condition the body under the guidance of a doctor according to the
specific situation.

03 Different types of moxibustion

There are many types of moxibustion, including direct moxibustion, indirect moxibustion, suspension moxibustion and so on
.
Today, Dr.
Huang Minyue mainly told us about salt barrier moxibustion and ginger moxibustion in indirect moxibustion
.

1.
Salt moxibustion

Salt septum moxibustion is usually done by filling the umbilical fossa with salt and placing a moxa pillar above it to administer moxibustion
.
This moxibustion method was first seen in the "Elbow Reserve Emergency Formula", because the salt taste is salty, and among the five flavors, the salty taste enters the kidneys, so salt moxibustion is based on
regulating the kidneys.

Rheumatoid is a long-term chronic disease, paralysis for a long time, easy to lead to liver and kidney deficiency in patients, so the use of salt moxibustion helps to regulate the kidneys, treatment often uses Shenque, Qi Hai, kidney Yu, Meimon and other acupuncture points
.

2.
Ginger moxibustion

Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that ginger is hot, spicy, enters the spleen, liver and kidney meridians, and has the effect
of dispersing cold in warmth, returning to the yang and channeling the veins, warming the lungs and drinking, and eliminating phlegm.

Patients have liver and kidney deficiency due to long-term paralysis, especially in winter, yang convergence is lurking inside, patients feel cold and evil with qi deficiency, resulting in cold limbs, cold intolerance, cold pain in the lower abdomen and other symptoms, the use of ginger moxibustion for warm yang dispersion effect is particularly good
.

Ginger moxibustion can be treated with a point of A
.
Traditional Chinese medicine says that if it is not common, it will be painful, and local ginger moxibustion based on Ah is acupoint can play a targeted treatment and strengthen the effect of
treatment and conditioning.

It is important to note that these two moxibustion methods are not the only ones that can improve the patient's condition
.
Specific moxibustion and acupoint selection need to be carried out according to the doctor's guidance to avoid reducing the treatment effect and even causing adverse reactions
.

04What problems should be paid attention to when moxibustion

1.
Patients with yin deficiency and heat evidence should not be moxibustion

Not everyone is suitable for moxibustion
.
Moxibustion is warm, if the patient with yin deficiency and heat evidence performs moxibustion, it is easy to burn the yin jin, promote the heat evidence, and aggravate the patient's condition
.
Not only can not achieve the purpose of conditioning, but also aggravate the patient's symptoms
.

2.
Moxibustion requires long-term persistence

The conditioning effect of temporary and occasional moxibustion is limited, and moxibustion needs long-term persistence and long-term conditioning to achieve the effect of
temperature and cold.

3.
You need to pay attention when moxibustion

When performing moxibustion, patients need to always pay attention to their own situation, and if there are uncomfortable symptoms such as pain, they should stop moxibustion in time to avoid damage
to the skin.
When performing suspension moxibustion for yourself, you should also pay attention, pay attention to the distance between moxa and acupuncture points, and avoid moxibustion strips directly touching and scalding the skin
.

4.
Abstain from cold drinks and cold food after moxibustion

After moxibustion, patients should avoid drinking cold drinks or eating raw and cold foods to avoid reducing the efficacy
of moxibustion.
Patients can drink warm drinks appropriately to replenish Yin Jin
.