Daily Archives: January 10, 2023

Young kids normally pay less attention to environmental changes. Also, because of their general vulnerable body characteristics, they tend to catch cold easily. If your child catches a cold, has a fever, is sneezing with sputum, or coughing with whitish mucus and having nose congestion or a runny nose, you […]

Moxibustion For Catching Cold and Nose Congestion and Coughing

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Warts Moxibustion is a very good way to treat health problems in kids. Your pediatrician might tell you what happened, but often he or she won’t know the real reason behind the problems.  Please don’t get me wrong. They are very professional, and I respect them totally. The issue is […]

Moxibustion For Warts

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  In China, there is a saying: The yang qi from heaven is called the sun; the yang qi from the Earth is called moxibustion. So, you can imagine the great benefit of moxibustion. Moxibustion is one integral part of the acupuncture practice. In Chinese, “Zhen Jiu” is comprised of […]

Functions of Moxibustion Therapy

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What is moxibustion?   Well, moxibustion is the burning of the various moxa products to treat health problems or to do health maintenance. When the moxa products are burnt, they generate heat. This is different from a heating pad or other types of heat, including infrared heat, which can only […]

What Is Moxibustion?

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First of all, it must be made of pure moxa herb leaves. If the moxa stick is made of new moxa leaves (under 1 year of storage), it normally smells stronger, and you feel hotter or a burning sensation when you use it. It’s still okay to use. But for […]

How to Distinguish the Quality of Moxa Products

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  The most common moxa products are long moxa rolls or sticks of various diameters, short moxa rolls or sticks, moxa stickers of different sizes and quality, loose fine moxa and moxa powder.  Other than loose moxa, there are multiple steps in making a typical moxa stick: harvest, dry, store, […]

How Are Moxa Products Made?

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Moxa or mugwort is native to Europe and Asia but has naturalized through much of the world. It is very tolerant of a wide range of climatic conditions and is reported to occur from the high mountainous regions of the Northern Himalayas to the warm temperate regions of South America. […]

Where Does Moxa Grow?

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