Can I do fire therapy during breastfeeding?

The principle of moxibustion is to use fire to stimulate the human body with heat and moisture, improve local blood circulation, and have the effect of warming yang, dredge channels and remove dampness. Especially after falls, the effect of moxibustion on the injured area is very significant. For health care by moxibustion, you can do whole body moxibustion twice a month, and abdomen and back moxibustion four times a week. It does not need to be done every day. Moxibustion achieves the effect of health care by accelerating the body's blood circulation and improving metabolism. Generally speaking, moxibustion can dredge the meridians and detoxify the body, and has no harm to the body. However, when the human body is not sick, continuous moxibustion will consume the body's energy, discharge a lot of sweat, and take away some essential nutrients. On the contrary, the effect of health care will not be improved but weakened.

During moxibustion, through the lighting of fire, it produces obvious heat effect, stimulates the meridians and acupoints of the human body, promotes local blood circulation, has the effect of dredging meridians and removing blood stasis, especially for muscle spasms and pains in some parts of the human body, moxibustion on the injured part is effective quickly. For the health care of ordinary people, whole body moxibustion can be performed twice a month and local moxibustion four times a week, but moxibustion cannot be performed every day.

People feel that moxibustion can produce a lot of sweat, which will also take away some nutrients and minerals. If moxibustion is performed every day, it will cause electrolyte imbalance in the body, causing weakness and fatigue, and the health-care effect of moxibustion will also be weakened.

Moxibustion, one of the traditional treatment methods of Chinese medicine, belongs to the category of external treatment. It is to add a combustible to the powder soaked in Chinese medicinal liquid and then ignite it with fire. The heat of fire is used to induce the medicinal effect to pass through the skin to achieve the therapeutic purpose. It is clinically used to treat cold syndrome. Generally speaking, for patients with severe cold syndrome, if the moxibustion sites are selected within a few areas, symptoms of getting angry are not likely to occur easily. However, for patients with mild cold syndrome, if too many sites are treated, it is likely to get angry. If this method is mistakenly used to treat heat syndrome, the probability of getting angry will increase significantly.