Yearly Archives: 2023

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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It’s very common that a lot of new moms lack breast milk after childbirth. There are three points where you can do moxibustion. The first one is called Danzhong (CV17) acupuncture point. The second one is Shaozhe acupuncture point, or SI 1. You can also do moxibustion on Zusanli (ST36) […]

Moxibustion For Lacking Breast Milk After childbirth

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Most women will have qi stagnation, which in a way is reflected in breast issues or womb issues. Women tend to be more emotional and easily get stressed. This will block the normal chi flow. Liver qi, in normal conditions, is gentle and is released constantly to nourish the heart. […]

Moxibustion For Breast Issues

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  Vaginal itching is normally caused by two issues: One is due to moisture and heat environment, which is often related to leukorrhea; the other is due to vaginal dryness, which normally happens to elderly women. Let’s just focus on the most commonly seen type: damp heat. First, you have […]

Moxibustion For Vaginal Itchiness

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A lot of women suffer from this problem. Nowadays, more than 70% of young girls have painful periods. It is again mainly due to coldness. In some cases, it’s coupled with liver qi stagnation as well.  As mentioned before, to have ultimate health, you have to change those bad habits, […]

Moxibustion For Painful Periods/Dysmenorrhea

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A leukorrhea issue is mainly due to coldness in the lower part of the body. You can just do moxibustion at back Bai Huan Shu (BL30), Ci Liao (BL32) and in front Dai Mai (GB26), belly button (CV8), Guanyuan (CV4) and San Yin Jiao (SP6). Clinically, for operational convenience, I […]

Moxibustion For Leukorrhea

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