Can moxibustion be performed during menstruation?

Women's bodies become particularly sensitive during menstruation. A lot of energy and blood are lost during menstruation, and women's bodies become weaker. At this time, women should try to stay in bed and rest, give themselves plenty of rest time, and avoid fatigue. Moxibustion is a particularly good way to relieve fatigue. Regular moxibustion can help promote blood circulation in the body and prevent the occurrence of many diseases. So, can moxibustion be done during menstruation?

1. Can I use moxibustion during menstruation?

Experts say that whether moxibustion can be used during menstruation depends on individual circumstances:

Some people have heavier menstrual flow, so moxibustion can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and dredge meridians and collaterals. If moxibustion is performed at this time, it can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and cause heavier menstrual flow. Can I use moxibustion during menstruation?

If the menstrual flow is relatively light, you can use moxibustion during your period. This can help to invigorate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, dredge meridians and collaterals, and expel some congestion in the body, thereby achieving the purpose of curing the disease.

When using moxibustion, it must be tailored to the individual. It cannot be said for sure that moxibustion cannot be done during menstruation, nor can it be said that moxibustion can be done during menstruation. It depends on your own situation. Moxibustion during menstruation can sometimes have a very good effect. By increasing the amount of blood discharged during menstruation, it can help the body expel waste, garbage, some blood clots, etc.

2. The best time for moxibustion

Chinese medicine experts point out that the best season for Chinese medicine moxibustion therapy is summer. Because we wear less clothes in the summer, it is very convenient to do moxibustion at home even if you don’t go to the hospital. It is not like in the winter when you can easily catch a cold if you take off your clothes to do moxibustion at home. Moreover, when the weather is hot, the human body is more sensitive to temperature and is not easily burned. The most important thing is that moxibustion in summer is in line with the theory of "treating winter diseases in summer" in traditional Chinese medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people with yang deficiency and qi deficiency are more suitable for acupuncture therapy. Most of the sick people have a yang deficiency constitution. Mugwort is warm in nature and is a purely yang substance. Moxibustion can warm the meridians, eliminate cold and dampness, and replenish the body's yang energy. Summer happens to be the time when the yang energy in nature is at its strongest. The yang and heat of the two combined have a stronger warming and tonic effect. Therefore, the tonic effect of moxibustion can be best achieved in the summer when the Yang energy of nature is at its peak.

3. The best amount of moxibustion

The amount of moxibustion should be determined by considering the influence of factors such as time of day, geography, and climate. For example, in winter, the amount of moxibustion should be large to dispel cold and relieve numbness, and help yang and return to normal; in summer, less moxibustion or light moxibustion should be used to avoid causing internal heat and damaging yin. The north is cold and windy, so the amount of moxibustion should be large; the south is warm and the amount of moxibustion should be small.

People of different ages, physical constitutions and genders have different levels of yin and yang, qi and blood, and different tolerance to moxibustion. For the elderly or weak people who use health-care moxibustion, the amount of moxibustion should be small, but it must be persisted for a long time; while for the middle-aged and healthy people, the number of moxibustion should increase from small to large with age.