Miracles happen a lot with moxibustion. To boost your confidence in moxibustion, I compiled more real-life stories from the moxibustion students and followers, mostly of which are from Ms. Shan’s blog. Ms. Shan is one of the earliest respected moxibustion promoters in China. To be honest, I think her understating of Chinese medicine might not be very right, but she is very experienced in her fire needle treatment. The most admirable thing she did was to promote self- moxibustion, and a lot of her students or followers tried it themselves and had very good experiences and gave good feedback, which is beneficial for all people.

Stomach Pain

I have mentioned about stomach pain before. Here is another real story from Ms. Shan’s Chinese moxibustion blog, by a moxibustion fan.

“Like most girls, I indulged myself when I was young. I would drink 3–5 bottles of ice beer with my friends every day, even during my period. After several years of such a lifestyle, I got a lot of health issues.

Now I am almost 30 years old. My stomach is cold. Overeating has led to food reflux. I throw up a lot of acid water every morning. I also had womb coldness, infertility and basically all kinds of diseases. After more than 1 month of medicine in the hospital with no improvement, I was desperate. Later, I watched Auntie Shan’s program about moxibustion on the stomach. I didn’t even find any acupuncture points but just put a moxibustion box on my stomach.  My stomachache was gone after half a month. I then stopped.  But the condition soon returned. So, I continued to do moxibustion for 2 months. Now, I haven’t done any moxibustion for more than a year, and the condition is very good; even the cold tongue coating is cured.

I was very afraid of the cold when my menstrual period came. I had to hold a hot water bottle under the quilt in the winter. I didn’t dare to use the air conditioner in the summer. I didn’t dare to wear shorts and sandals.  My period blood was really black, and there were often blood clots. The menstrual period was generally clean after 3 days. I thought to try moxibustion but didn’t really expect too much.  I tried only a few days, then my period came. The color turned a bit red.  To see whether moxibustion was really making the difference, I purposely stopped any moxibustion for one month. Then the next period came and it was dark.  Then I believed that moxibustion really worked for me.  So, I continued to do moxibustion. Now my pain is gone, and the color has turned to red. The period amount increased to 4–6 days instead of the prior 3-–5 days. Now I can wear my shorts and sandals in the summer.”