Moxibustion - A Traditional Chinese Medicine Approach to Improve Qi Flow (3 Minutes Microlearning)
Not everything in this video is correct: moxa has been used as a home treatment since times immorial, and neither acupuncture nor moxibustion is "energy medicine", but overall, a nice video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlzAE96dg1E
Moxa is an important part of Acupuncture practice. Acupuncturists will often ask their patients to apply moxa at home between treatments. Rice grain moxa is just one of the many different types of moxa techniques. It is relatively easy to learn and can be applied in the home. This video was made to support acupuncturists in teaching their patients this simple technique. The location of 2 main points often used with rice grain are also included - Stomach 36 (ST36) and Spleen 6 (SP6).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dsWLSdtNA
#moxa #moxibustion #acupuncture #selfcare
AMR Awareness Week (Day 5): MDR-TB, the existing anomolous AMR pandemic
The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) represents one of the most daunting challenges to disease control worldwide let alone to controlling AMR.
Drug-resistant TB is the only antimicrobial resistant infection that is airborne so is by any defnition the hardest AMR problem to contain.
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-day-5-mdr-tb-the-existing-anomolous-amr-pandemic
AMR Awareness Week November 18-26 (Part 3): how can we as individuals help reduce the risks?
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-november-18-26-part-3-how-can-we-as-individuals-help-reduce-the-risks
#WAAW #acupuncture #moxibustion #moxafrica #antibiotcs
Today is the second day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and Moxafrica is publishing a series of blogs posts.
Antimicrobial Medicine Resistance is unquestionably a growing problem and indeed was endorsed as such by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the Sixty-Eighth World Health Assembly in May 2015. It's also no coincidence that the year before that, in 2014, the then UK prime minister David Cameron had commissioned a review regarding what he was being advised was a worrying global phenomenon. “If we fail to act,” he warned at the time, “we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine.” His doom-laden warnings were undoubtedly being stoked by his then Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, who (since leaving office in 2019) has become the UK’s official ‘special envoy on AMR’.
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-november-18-26-day-2-the-nature-of-the-threat-of-amr
#acupuncture #moxafrica #moxibustion #WAAW #AntibioticResistance
Today is the first day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and Moxafrica will be publishing a series of blogs during the week, intending to appropriately promote better awareness by discussing what this week is all about (and it's a complex and multi-facetted issue that demands much better public understanding). They plan to relate it to tuberculosis control at some point, but will also examine what can be done by politicians, global authorities, farmers, doctors and vets etc. and offer some advice about what people can do about it themselves.
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-waaw-november-18-26-part-1
Moxibustion for little insects bites
Moxa is one of the great pillars of traditional Chinese medicine, yet much less known in the West than its younger, more slender sister, acupuncture. It has many different forms an applications, and Felip Caudet is an expert on several of them.
In this video, Felip demonstrates moxibustion for little insects bites. It can be applied by anybody as a folk remedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1m46PauzhA
#insectbites #moxibustion #hometreatment #folkmedicine #acupuncture
A cure for chronic fatigue syndrome? No. But a study showed that moxibustion relieves chronic fatigue syndrome, which is already very good for this crippling condition.
Conclusions: Based on limited evidence, moxibustion might be an effective and safe complementary therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome, which can be recommended to manage chronic fatigue syndrome. Because of the limited level of evidence in this review, further high-quality trials are still needed to confirm these findings.
https://www.acupuncturetimes.com/moxibustion-relieves-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8601810/
#acupuncture #moxibustion #moxa #cvs #me #chronicfatigue #treatment #tcm #chronicfatiguesyndrome #alternativemedicine
The "Tiger Warmer" is a very useful tool to use at home. In essence, it is an incense holder, that is used to heat areas on the body. My friend David Euler shows how it can be used in children and adults to treat upper respiratory problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CooSwif9bQ4
#upperrespiratoryproblems #acupuncture #tigerthermy #tigerwarmer #cold #adults #children #flue #davideuler #moxibustion
Moxibustion Application for COVID Patients Rehabilitation
Fire Dragon 10-10-21
Pulmonary fibrosis will become one of the complications of COVID patients. It is clinically observed that most patients have different degrees of post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis when discharged from the hospital. The post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis of severely ill patients is particularly significant. Therefore, the rehabilitation of discharged patients need to be paid attention to by medical practitioners.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believes that yang deficiency is closely related to pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, and proposes that the essence of the disease is a mixture of deficiency and excessive, yang deficiency and coldness are the root cause, phlegm stagnation and blood stasis as its initial manifestations.
The novel coronavirus pneumonia is classified under "dampness with cold condensation" in TCM. Cold and dampness are considered as pathogens of yin, which can easily damage the yang energy. Considering that the disease location is mainly in the lungs, then if the yang energy of the lungs is weak, the vitality of the lungs will become impaired, and will lead to disease formation, from deficiency can lead to excessiveness, then the transforming function of yang energy will become deficit. The Qi becomes inadequate to perform its function in distributing the body fluids efficiently. Body fluids then start to accumulate and become congested into turbid phlegm. The more it will hinder the yang energy movement with cold condensation, leading to abnormal flow which will cause blood stasis. Actually, we can see here, it’s from deficiency leading to excessive condition. Yet in this situation, it will aggravate much further, considering the turbid phlegm and blood stasis are known to be as yin pathogens, it will then further damage human yang energy with cold coagulation. Such lingering and reciprocating condition will make the disease difficult to heal.
The pathogenesis of novel coronavirus pneumonia is complicated, and the treatment objectives must be targeted on the elimination of symptoms and treating at its root causes. The strategy must be the warming method to replenish its yang energy as its main objective, at the same time to eliminate the phlegm and promoting blood circulation for yang deficiency with cold coagulation are the root cause of this disease, as the saying: “need to replenish when there is deficiency and apply warming method to treat coldness.” What is important and the main point here is not just applying heat to induce energy for dispersing coldness, but also heat application is suggested to treat phlegm turbidity and blood stasis. Therefore, the warming method is selected and moxibustion application is the best and first choice for the treatment of this disease.
During this plague or pandemic, moxibustion gives promising results, especially in the treatment of post covid symptoms for those patients during recovery period. Moxibustion can play a more important role in the fight against "pulmonary disease". Moxibustion can warmth and stimulate the acupuncture points, which has the functions of warming yang energy to dispel coldness, clearing the meridians to promote blood circulation, strengthening and escalating yang to save life from depletion, and for detoxification. Furthermore, advanced modern research has concluded application of moxibustion obviously will improve and has shown immunoregulatory effects. Recommended acupoints are: Dazhui (DU14), Gaohuangshu (UB43), Zusanli (ST36), etc.
#moxibustion #traditiionalchinesemedicine #pandemic #acupuncture #tcm #china #treatment #covid19 #corona
Do you suffer from Long COVID or know anyone who does?
As simple moxa therapy can fortify the immune system, and help suppress symptoms and speed up recovery from #tuberculosis, the good people of #Moxafrica are now conducting research to see if #moxibustion can be an effective treatment for #LongCovid.
If you’re interested in taking part in this '100 Day Moxa Challenge', please email 100daymoxachallenge@gmail.com
