Moxa loose - 5 years old

Loose Qi Moxa

Loose moxa is also called moxa floss. As the original form of moxa, loose moxa is the material of moxa rolls and sticks. Meanwhile, loose moxa is also directly applied to moxibustion.

What is Qi moxa

Qi moxa is made of mugwort leaves picked from Qichun County, Hubei Province, China. Mugwort leaves from Qichun have been acknowledged to have the best quality. According to the investigation of Chinese researchers, the levels of volatile oil, flavonoids and tannin in mugwort leaves from Qichun are much more than those of mugwort leaves from other areas.

Use of loose moxa

Loose moxa was always directly used for moxibustion until the fifteenth century in which there was the first record about using paper to roll moxa.

Before using loose moxa, it is always pressed into a compact form. For direct moxibustion and indirect moxibustion, loose moxa is generally pressed into a moxa cone. For warm acupuncture, loose moxa is also pressed into a cluster. Moreover, loose moxa can be put into a moxa burner container.

Specification

200 g per bag

Manufacturer

The loose moxa is made by Beijing Zhongyan Taihe Medical Instrument Co., Ltd. in China. The company provides complete solutions of TCM instruments.

What is moxa

The raw material of moxa is called Chinese mugwort (Artemisia argyi). In China, around the Duanwu Festival, which is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it is traditionally the best time to pick the leaves of Chinese mugwort. After drying, the leaves are stored in a shady and ventilated place for making the quality of moxa satisfy the needs of moxibustion. Before making moxa products, dried mugwort leaves are processed into fine and soft fibers, which are called moxa floss.

Effects of moxibustion

Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese external therapy. Huang Di Nei Jing, the most important theoretical work of TCM, describes the importance of moxibustion as “the problems that acupuncture cannot solve are the advantages of moxibustion”. Moxibustion warms meridians, strengthens Yang and makes Qi run smoothly, as well as gets rid of blood stasis, pathogenic cold and pathogenic dampness. The therapeutic effects of burning moxa are from heat, infrared radiation, and volatile oil.

Additionally, in ancient China, fumigation by burning mugwort leaves was an important way of epidemic prevention.