The method of acupoint selection in Zusanli, the efficacy and function of moxibustion in Zusanli
"Qianjin Yaofang" says: "If you want to be safe, Sanli often does not dry." This means that if Zusanli acupoint is always kept moist, that is, moxibustion at Zusanli often will cause small blisters and scabs to form at the acupoint for a long time. Scars have the effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life. This is what we call "scar moxibustion" today, which is a summary of the experience of the ancients in long-term practice. Many Chinese physicians in the past dynasties also regarded health-care moxibustion as a major event in their life and performed moxibustion on a regular basis. Moxibustion is the use of moxa cones, moxa sticks or other moxibustion materials to place moxibustion on certain parts of the human body to prevent diseases and keep fit.
Modern science has confirmed that moxibustion can enhance the phagocytic ability of leukocytes. Stimulating the Zusanli point can increase the number of leukocytes in the human body and enhance its phagocytic function, improve the body's immunity, accelerate the body's metabolism, and promote the digestion of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. Absorb and delay the degradation of the body. Long-term moxibustion at Zusanli can also reduce blood lipids and blood viscosity, and prevent vascular sclerosis and stroke.
Zusanli acupuncture method
There are two ways to find the Zusanli acupuncture point: First, sit on a chair, bend your knees, put your feet flat, flatten the ground naturally, surround your knees with the tiger's mouth of your own hands, place your index finger on the front edge of the tibia below the knee, and place your four fingers on the front edge of the tibia. Close together, the middle fingertips are the acupuncture points. It is three cun below the eye of the outer knee, on the outer edge of the tibia, between the tibialis anterior muscle and the extensor digitorum longus muscle; second, it is taken when the foot is stretched out, one inch below the highest point of the tibial tuberosity below the knee, and one inch outside. The relationship between it and Yanglingquan is that the slope is one inch up and down. That is, Zusanli is one inch lower than Yanglingquan, and one inch outside. Yanglingquan is located between the tibial tuberosity and the fibular head, and it forms a triangle downward, and the lower corner is the acupoint.
The efficacy and role of moxibustion in Zusanli
Moxibustion "Zusanli" can adjust the digestive system to make it function vigorously, absorb nutrients and increase energy, and has a strong effect on all systems of the body. During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Li Dongyuan, one of the four major medical scientists, paid special attention to the spleen and stomach. Moxibustion "Zusanli" has the functions of warming the middle and dispelling cold, invigorating the spleen-yang, invigorating the middle and benefiting the qi, promoting the ventilation, guiding the qi to descend, and strengthening the whole body.
The meaning of moxibustion "Zusanli"
Health care: It can enhance physical strength, relieve fatigue, strengthen nerves, prevent aging, and treat tuberculosis, colds, hypertension, hypotension, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, rheumatic heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, cerebral hemorrhage and other diseases. Have preventive effect.
Prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases: Zusanli is the acupoint of the stomach meridian, which controls the digestive system. There is a saying that "the belly is closed in three miles". For abdominal diseases, such as gastrointestinal weakness, low function, loss of appetite, thinness, peritonitis, bowel thunder, diarrhea, constipation, dyspepsia, liver disease, stomach cramps, acute and chronic gastritis, oral and peptic ulcers, acute and chronic Moxibustion at Zusanli is quite effective for enteritis, pancreatitis, ascites swelling, intestinal obstruction, dysentery, gastroptosis, etc. However, for those with heartburn when there is too much stomach acid and an empty stomach, moxibustion at Zusanli is not suitable.
Moxibustion of Zusanli has the effect of healthy walking: it can strengthen the strength of the lower limbs, prevent and treat swelling of the limbs, fatigue, soreness of the waist and knees, and weakness. It has preventive and therapeutic effects on tibiofibular neuralgia, sciatica, polio, beriberi, and peripheral neuritis.
It has the effect of nourishing kidney qi: effective for tinnitus, dizziness, low back pain, frequent urination, enuresis, dysuria, nocturnal emission, impotence, premature ejaculation, asthma, etc.
Some intractable diseases: headache, insomnia, anemia, neurasthenia, breast pain, qi stagnation, hemiplegia, etc. can be moxibustion in Zusanli.
Other chronic diseases, such as eye disease, vision loss, nose disease, ear disease and allergic disease can all use this method of moxibustion at "Zusanli" point.
There are many methods of moxibustion, but ordinary people use moxibustion "Zusanli" to obtain the effect of health care, and direct moxibustion can be used. Direct moxibustion can be performed by yourself without the help of others.