Post Date December, 02 2023
For many people nowadays, tonifying the kidney is a topic of great concern. Many people feel that they have kidney deficiency and do not go to the hospital to confirm it, so they randomly start tonifying themselves. Various methods have been exhausted, but the situation has not improved. Is it the wrong choice of methods. Of course, tonifying the kidney also requires a process that requires slow conditioning to take effect. Moxibustion therapy is a good option for tonifying the kidney and prolonging health care.
"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic says, 'What acupuncture does not do, what moxibustion is appropriate.' On the one hand, it indicates that moxibustion has special curative effects. Each acupuncture and moxibustion method has its own advantages, and moxibustion has its own scope of application;"; On the other hand, moxibustion can also compensate for the shortcomings of acupuncture and medicine. When acupuncture and medicine are ineffective, switching to moxibustion can often achieve satisfactory results.
Inverse moxibustion
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Health care moxibustion, known in ancient times as "reverse moxibustion", is a health care method of moxibustion without disease. It is applied to certain specific acupoints on the human body to achieve the reconciliation of qi and blood, dredging meridians, tonifying the internal organs, thereby preventing disease, eliminating pathogenic factors, and prolonging life. It is called health care moxibustion. As the Song Dynasty Doucai's "Bian Que Xin Shu" states, "In one's later years, the yang qi declines, so one's hands and feet cannot be warmed, the lower yuan is weak and tired, and the movements are difficult. If one has a breath of qi in the cover, one will not die, and the qi is born of the yang. Therefore, if the yang qi is exhausted, one's heart will die. When one is not ill, one often moxibustion the guan yuan, qi hai, ming men, and zhong wan... Although one has not yet attained eternal life, one can still ensure a hundred years of longevity."
Why can moxibustion tonify the kidney?
Deficiency of kidney yang is a major aspect of kidney deficiency. Kidney yang, also known as Yuanyang, is the true yang of the whole body, and is the driving force for the activity of yang qi in the five zang organs and six viscera. The essence of yang qi in a person's body is as follows: "In the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, if yang qi is the same as the sky and the sun, if it loses its place, it will shorten one's life and not bring out its vitality." As Zhang Jingyue said, "Anyone who is warm throughout the body, it will also have yang qi; anyone who is alive throughout one's life, it will have yang qi. If the divinity of the five zang organs is unpredictable, it will also have yang qi.".
Other yang qi in the human body, such as heart yang, spleen yang, and wei yang, are all based on kidney yang. "If the yang qi outside the Wei is sufficient, the muscles and striae will be firm and dense, and the camp and Wei will be harmonious, which can prevent the invasion of external evil."; If the spleen yang is strong, it can transform the essence and nourish the whole body; The heart governs the yang of the whole body, and if the heart yang is sufficient, it is like everything being bathed in sunlight, with a smooth flow of qi and blood. Therefore, kidney-yang is the foundation of life, the root of the yang qi of the five zang organs, that is, "the yang qi of the five zang organs cannot be emitted without this.". Therefore, Yang Qi is closely related to human aging and the occurrence of diseases.
"Yang Jing is as strong as a thousand years old," and "Yang Jing can be born if it is here." This is also called. In other words, the main reason why people suffer from diseases and aging is due to the deficiency of yang qi, while the main role of health preserving moxibustion is to nourish yang qi and benefit its true yin. Therefore, it can play a role in preventing and treating diseases, preventing aging, and prolonging human life expectancy.
Kidney Tonifying Acupoints Commonly Used in Health Moxibustion
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Zusanli
Location: It is the acupoint of the Stomach Meridian of the Foot Yangming, located 3 inches outside the knee joint at the front of the knee and 1 transverse finger outside the anterior tibial ridge.
Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood.
Indications: Digestive tract disease, cardiovascular disease, decreased immune function, fatigue, premature aging. Zhang Gao's "Medical Theory" emphasizes that "if you want to be safe, don't do it within three li." It means repeatedly moxibustion within three li can play a health care role.
Sanyinjiao
Location: Located 3 inches above the tip of the medial malleolus, at the concave position behind the medial edge of the tibia.
Efficacy: Warm the kidney and strengthen the spleen, dispel dampness and diuresis, regulate menstruation and relieve pain.
Indications: Tinnitus and abdominal distension, diarrhea, irregular menstruation, vaginal discharge, ejaculation, impotence, enuresis, hernia, insomnia, and lower limb flaccidity.
Shenque Qi Customs Yuan
Shenque
Location: It is located at the center of the abdomen and navel, belonging to the Ren Vessel.
Efficacy: Warming yang and supplementing qi, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the spleen.
Indications: Deficiency of yang in the spleen and kidney, with symptoms such as chills, cold limbs, pale complexion, fatigue, diarrhea, and even downwardly clearing the valley, as well as impotence, premature ejaculation, and ejaculation caused by the failure of the vital gate fire.
Guan Yuan
Location: Above the midline of the abdomen, 3 inches below the umbilicus.
Efficacy: Warm the kidney and strengthen the spleen, tonify and strengthen the body, dissipate cold and relieve pain, regulate menstruation and nourish blood, and maintain health and prolong life.
Indications: It can be used for diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems such as impotence, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, common gynecological diseases such as irregular menstruation and postpartum hemorrhage, gastrointestinal diseases such as abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, stroke, and all kinds of fatigue injuries.
Acupoint Matching: Guanyuan is one of the important acupoints for tonifying the human body. Women can cooperate with Sanyinjiao moxibustion, while men can cooperate with Zusanli moxibustion.
Qihai
Location: 1.5 inches below the navel above the midline of the abdomen.
Efficacy: Strengthen the vitality and strengthen the deficiency, nourish the vitality, restore the yang and benefit the yin, regulate the health, prolong life, resist aging and prevent diseases.
Indications: Physical weakness, deficiency of both yin and yang, imbalance of camp and defense, exhaustion of the lower yuan, chronic cold of Chen Han, weakness and emaciation, inverse cold of limbs, weakness of the spleen and stomach, loss of blood essence, five pains and seven injuries, and various types of deficiency.
Note: Caution for use with yin deficiency, contraindicated for pregnant women. "Generally, in spring, moxibustion is performed on the Qi Sea. According to the Nei Jing," In the third month of spring, this is called Fa Chen. Heaven and earth are born together, and all things are proud of each other. "The Qi Sea is the sea of vitality. At this time, moxibustion should be performed in accordance with the timing of its spring birth to help promote the Qi of the hair, expel Chen Yin, lay the foundation of the Yuan Dynasty, and adapt to the growth of summer.".
Shenshu point
Positioning: At the waist, when the second lumbar spine is under the spine process, open 1.5 inches laterally. Parallel to the navel.
Efficacy: Kidney, kidney also; Yu, you can lose. The name of this acupoint means that the cold, dampness, and moisture of the kidney are transmitted through the bladder channel, hence the name.
Indications: enuresis, spermatorrhea, impotence, irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, edema, tinnitus, deafness, low back pain.
Compatibility: Treatment of irregular menstruation with Taixi and Sanyinjiao; Treatment of tinnitus and deafness with Yifeng and auricle.
Taixi acupoint
Location: Located on the medial side of the foot, at the concave point between the posterior medial malleolus and the calcaneal tendons. That is, the indentation between the inner ankle and the Achilles tendon of the foot. Bilateral symmetry, that is, two.
When selecting acupoints, one can adopt a posture of sitting upright, flat on the sole of the foot, or lying on one's back. Taixi acupoint is located on the inner side of the foot, at the concave point between the rear of the inner ankle, and the bone tendons of the heel.
Efficacy: Nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening yang and waist.
Indications: Kidney disease, toothache, sore throat, asthma, bronchitis, cold hands and feet, female physiological discomfort, arthritis, low energy, weakness of hands and feet, rheumatic pain, etc. This acupoint is one of the main acupoints on the Kidney Meridian of Foot Shaoyin in the human body. The treatment methods related to this acupoint on this website include: treating cold hands and feet, acupoint stimulation therapy for hair loss, etc.
