Category: Gudang’s Infinite Nourishing Moxa

  • How to treat trigger finger

    How to treat trigger finger

    Finger stiffness Here is how to treat the trigger finger. We can see the symptoms in many diseases, such as stroke, muscle atrophy, etc.  When you have any patients who cannot bend or open fingers and thumbs, try the prescription by Huh Im, a Korean doctor in the 1600s. Acupuncture points  LI 11 (곡지) ST…

  • Treating Burn Injuries with Acupuncture 

    Treating Burn Injuries with Acupuncture 

    Treating burn injuries Some of you already know about Gudang burn therapy.   Dr Namsoo Kim (Gudang) figured this out and treated many burn injury patients with acupuncture.  No one imagined that acupuncture could treat burn injuries.   One research, Acupuncture accelerates wound healing in burn-injured mice, shows that acupuncture can reduce inflammation and accelerate…

  • Is moxibustion free from harm?

    Is moxibustion free from harm?

    Moxibustion safety Many people ask whether moxibustion is free from harm. Naturally, people bring up the question of moxibustion safety. It would be like asking whether the car is safe.  If the vehicle is driven by a good driver, people in the car would feel comfortable, and there would be no accidents. If an unskilled driver…

  • What is Moxibustion Good for?

    What is Moxibustion Good for?

    Benefits of moxibustion It is inspiring that more people are aware of moxibustion nowadays.  However, most of them need to know there are two different types: direct and indirect.  I will not talk about indirect moxibustion since I specialize in direct scarring moxibustion alone. Scarring moxibustion has a more extended history than acupuncture and indirect…

  • Benefits from acupuncture and moxibustion on the back

    Benefits from acupuncture and moxibustion on the back

    Acupuncture point meridians on the back Here is how to benefit from scarring moxibustion on the back. There are two traditional acupuncture point lines, or meridians, on bladder meridian on the back.  We call the inner line the first line, and the outer line the second line.  Du Mai, or Du meridian, runs on the…

  • Direct moxibustion on front-mu and back-shu points

    Direct moxibustion on front-mu and back-shu points

    Applying direct moxibustion on front-mu and back-shu points makes a huge difference in treating various disorders. The acupuncture points are located close to the relevant organs.  It is easy to imagine that they can influence the functions of the relevant organs.  Applying direct moxibustion on front-mu and back-shu points will greatly affect the outcome of…