What is moxibustion? What is moxa? Should you have it? Let’s talk about it.

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What is moxa? moxibustion? moxibustion is a form of treatment in traditional East Asian medicine comes from Japan involves taking an array and running on the dole like incense, it's molars it was the actual candle. So the needles inserted into the point he makes is put on the tip of the needle. Well, it's done a number of different ways but that's one of the columns is on in the USA Today. But this rolled up process or on top of that, you know, the lead on fire motors at a more temperature. Now hot warning the needle and breathing within vigorous and inclement weather is inserted vigorish is that a word here. So most of it comes from your hand is a form of treating with the herb mugwort I have a number different names. But what it is, is a soggy like not really salty is talking grass sort of word like plant, it's almost like related to him sort of salty, tall, and leaves usually the plant and a dried plant the process of losing how to run up and grind them out and the greatest like cotton's will this fluff. It's really interesting if you've never seen it, before it it feels like a fluffy cotton wool, and comes in various levels of process. So there's you know, very refine, process really anything and you have to find a versatile hit and you have more already right hold of it. But it comes in basically every four you can buy it from suppliers and various forms of purity and potency, all that so the higher higher quality more expensive stuff is used our underwriting MCN to warn, sometimes we burned, it was not necessarily coming back to so much anymore, which I guess is relatively your ultra ultra explain that. There's of course, the qualities of it that are on top of each other, they're super coarse calls for to burn large combs over acupuncture points or various nucleases energy. And energy is a poor word that we're describing acupuncture and usually article metabolism. So areas call it a topical areas of metabolism or areas in which we can leverage and tablets to change with. We're up that we wanted to do this though. There's a very, very long history of Moxa. And I'm not gonna get into specific dates or treatises, books or Canada's at it, because I'm not really a researcher or scholar that way. It's not really Aaron expertise. But what I can say is from what I've seen in experience in clinical setting, part of what I was doing in my clinical training is burning off over patients and seeing them transform almost before you're ready to walk out of the clinical treatment. I feel different I feel I feel amazing. I feel like this pain has been released. So it's used as a number of different ways. It spread over different areas of life. Sometimes it's costly to be burned into this category to burn the bodies kind of drives heat and vigor into the body. Sometimes it'd be burnt on the needles potentially the the actual point or is it clear that you shouldn't have entered an area let's exit and metabolic stagnation. So give you a little bit ago, when I was in elementary school, we learned about Luxa we learned about what the bassoon works, does it work, there's a point on or over the sort of nucleus or an era of Senator gravity or center of potency. Like we have, we take all this food into our body we digest and transport most nutrients, if 111 We have all this nutrient transfer, blood transfer and there's a lot of a lot of important stuff that has made it necessary artery blood blood supply, so it's very potent, powerful part of the aisles of the center gravity also the center of a point of cultivation or point of acupuncture or the data in traditional Chinese medicine. So that area, you can shoot with masa or you can change with masa by burning again, over this area. So I decided to do it one day it was my 25th birthday and as soon as acupuncture school three, six, something like that and decided that for my birthday, I'm gonna burn something that goes over my belly button as as the number of my birth year so 20 Something goes and typically these goes out and maybe half of an inch, three quarters of these tall not the little topiary, little, little trees and parents have you know, various you know roll up in your hand shape typically put over a piece of salt that pieces all sorts of pipes or a piece of ginger or something so that the when you burn that cone it transmits transmits through whatever the idea is that sitting into into the body and that filters or changes the rest of the potential that burrito. So for example, burning the loss of overweight, burned that forget these numbers 500 Something angstroms creases resonance that corresponds with the higher level or resonance that cells have when healthy, strong vigorous, and we want to bring our lungs back to this place of being vigorous through vibrational entrainment, you create a vibration that is mirrored or NFS in the adjacent tissue so you're burning the matzah and that's creating resonance, the burning that manifests in the box and the body then vibrates at the same rate of speed. If you put like a piece of ginger Epsom salt in between it said to access different levels or tissues in the body because of the different and different nature of those media that go in between. So suddenly some wavelength is not being used the attenuator some way like it's being amplified, targeting different parts of the visor traditionally the the salt connect with the kidneys and the ginger connection the digestive tract has diameter and screened so I was Burning as long as the belly just kind of laying or a house on the floor earnings coming from outside and you're listening to the radio something or we're laying in Xmas clothes, watering these columns, by vanity and all the way to like 2526, something like that. Typically you will be burned at once three five coals of empty belly. It's usually off maybe in severe cases. And they say that if you do too much, it would be too stimulatory to the body to turn to strengthening to invigorate is too much in ways an overdose, you can too much of anything that burns out in the cold on the body, obviously. So I've heard all these polls themselves. I didn't think it would actually be a problem. But I could not sleep that night. And what I'm feeling are hours and hours like wow, absolutely why. And what was really annoying to me is how profound it was, it was so obviously directly connected to what I had just done. It was such an anomaly sleeping hunter that there's no way that it couldn't be couldn't be from a mountain like this, it's really warm and a very insensitive fragrance smells, it's I quite like it. And it has this sort of sense proposal sort of says react, won't do it any less in clinic smell it, it makes me feel warm and happy. Sad, because it reminds me of being greeted in terms of you receiving acupuncture treatment, so you're getting acupuncture, with the fires and the boulders, they didn't warn you this morning sensation across your battery or hit a liver folder matters. getting treated isn't nice and warm and relaxing and circulations changing, which just feels really, really awful. In traditional Chinese medicine, they say that traditional treatments has four pillars, or activity level, four major components that make it work that make it so first of all, the first one that people are most familiar with in the USA, that time recording, in my opinion, is Asperger. But the kind of classical loving of those is counter moxibustion one category that doesn't die and another category of physical manipulation like 20 Chiong, and things that look like Oh, is that any stretching kind of thing. And then she goes on medical Qigong, which is basically, Doctor facilitated treatments that change themselves with the body and therapeutic CAUTI who utilize breathing posture and hand postures and advice that, you know, changes mind if stuff like that, though. That's really interesting idea that the way that these four are balanced with each other, but the first one that people say, Oh, I don't see my progress. Well, those acupuncturists know also, most of us didn't any nurse and even if you only knew the physical modalities had nothing else to hide all day 29 school so most countries that you go to will have experience that we've all had to experience the sort of raw was really interesting, I think the like if you go to college, he said the liberal arts if we get a little bit of that, and I'm just willing can specialize in acupuncture or you take on more studies or more disciplines or more things that you want to incorporate in your vaccine because there's we all had study I and not everybody chose to study them to the fullest expression. Many of my friends had and again it's made it really well recognition. It doesn't add additional medical Qigong, maybe there's any additional physical manipulate and to balance the with the amount of herbs herbal acupuncture students are taught. So not all acupuncturist are lists now, students necessarily need to train and study or knowing about Chinese, Chinese herbs, endings, relatives, or who choose to know and become experts in and go out and train practicing it and become really experts at it begins in the military, but see these four categories actually in talking about acupuncture and moxibustion Basava busted in Japan for a lot of times its own disciplines he was trained will actually do a lot of the moxibustion. This moxibustion has to go around and, you know, clinate were hooked with people. They all are hanging around in a plate and you walk around and he'd be treating all mockumentary device and 2030 different who knows how many different people but that was his one discipline. And then you go see the herbalist and he would just say you are sort of entirely then you go see an adventurous and he would do they were all different specialities. So I think we're in a really interesting time. And I don't know if it's better or worse than most traditional Indian Medical practitioners have a mixture of things have a mixture of, you know, WRC going out into appraisers and AR and AR and AR is going to be listed lists. Whereas, at times in the past, where the old speciality was newest practices, oh, I was thinking about this earlier that speaking in relative terms, compared to acupuncture practitioners, Ohio specialists or practitioners any historic and compared to highly specialized practitioners, like surgeons who work just on one bone in the ether and speciality generals. So there's a lot I just want to point out that there are so many different specialities different iterations of acupuncturist, in the United States, not in probably the world that you need to is this thing like 100, fingerprint, no two are alike. So why don't one that works for you to find what you resonate with, and even in your resume them Moreover, find ones effective, who's good at what they do, and who is willing to help. Many full time practitioners don't really talk a lot. They just kind of get on the table and do the thing, don't really explain stuff and then move on. It's part of why I have to do this project is to

just sort of bring to light all the layers and all the things that are going on in your brain or your thoughts that maybe you don't understand, that could be valuable to you that maybe you can use later on in life. patenting a cultural context, to make it relevant to make it a little bit more transparent to make it more useful in your life or to maybe help you decide whether or not it's a good idea or a bad idea for us, right? We're using right for you. So feel free to take this and share with somebody you think might find beneficial. Do you think of anything that I missed? Feel free to share it or if you can think of other areas or aspects of traditional Indian medicine that you'd like to hear on Hackaday format like this? Let me know and we'll see what we do. Thanks for listening and have a one day