Moxa stick - 1,5 year – 4 mm - 70 pcs

Sun Glow Moxa Stick - 4 mm x 120 mm, Qi Moxa

The moxa stick is a compressed moxa product. Comparing with a moxa roll, a moxa stick is not rolled by paper, and compressed technology makes it thinner and harder. You may hold a moxa stick directly by hand, or put it into a rolling tiger warmer.

Specification

Size of a moxa stick: 4 mm (diameter) x 120 mm (length)

70 pieces per package

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.

Why use 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.

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 the leaves of Chinese mugwort was an important way of epidemic prevention.