Monthly Archives: January 2023

Why is there anxiety? Think too much? Worry too much? In Chinese medicinal theory, overthinking or worrying too much will hurt your spleen system. In the long run, it will cause qi deficiency as well as qi stagnation. It’s a middle Jiao qi disharmony issue. To get rid of this […]

Moxibustion For Anxiety

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A lot of people, especially women and elderly people, will have cold limbs. Some people have both cold hands and cold feet, while some others will have hot hands but cold limbs. The mechanism behind it is a bit different, so the treatment method is different too. Here I just […]

Moxibustion For Cold Limbs and Fatigue

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Nowadays, so many people want to lose weight. Some tell you that you don’t need to change anything and can lose weight easily. You just need to take their nutrition supplements, which in most cases are laxative theory-based products. I want to tell you that these are more for marketing. […]

Moxibustion For Weight Management

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Maybe this is not a commonly seen problem. But I want to list it to tell you that you should never be scared by any scary and fancy diagnosis. This is the real case I experienced. I once rented a house, partially for my moxibustion practice as it’s hard to […]

Moxibustion For Multi-Scoliosis

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Such problems can happen to people of any age, even young children. But it mostly happens to elderly or aging people. In Chinese medicine theory, the kidney, especially kidney yang qi, governs urine and bowel movement. When people have urinary issues, in most cases, it indicates that kidney yang qi […]

Moxibustion For Urinary (Incontinence, Frequent or Night Urine)

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First, we have to understand what constipation is: It is when the stool is dry and hard to move out, and you are only pooing once every several days. But clinically, I found it should be called “bowel movement difficulty” instead of constipation, as a lot of clients have told […]

Moxibustion For Constipation or Bowel Movement Difficulty

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Moxibustion is very effective to treat diarrhea. When a person has diarrhea, we say the clear chi of the spleen is not ascending. The reason is either due to coldness or too much dampness accumulating around the lower part of the body. You can simply do moxibustion around the belly […]

Moxibustion For Diarrhea

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As indicated in my book title, moxibustion is good for 90% of health issues. Whether local or systematic, digestive or urinary, respiratory or cardio, neural or lymphatic, a simple issue such as cold, or a complicated issue such as diabetes or cancer, moxibustion will for sure be beneficial.  In my […]

Moxibustion For Stomachache

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My friend once joked: A woman can tolerate the pain from periods but cannot tolerate a dot on her face. It’s very natural that women care more about their face than men. This is a big topic.  Here I will just mention a bit about drooping skin. The theory for […]

Moxibustion For Beauty Boost

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