Tag: moxibustion benefit
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Stroke: Difficulty with speech, muscle function loss and cognitive impairment
Stroke Strokes impair many functions of our body. Stroke patients can have difficulty speaking, lose muscle function of their body. They may not be able to recognize familiar faces. When the patient has difficulty with speech, muscle function loss, and cognitive impairment along with abrupt aversion to wind, Huh Im recommends applying moxa cones…
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Involuntary movements in legs and shoulders
Involuntary movement in legs and shoulders Involuntary movements can be twitching, spasms, cramps, tremors, seizures, and so on. These can be seen in Parkinson’s disease, Tourette syndrome, Dystonia, Huntington’s disease, Tardive dyskinesia, etc. There may be many different underlying causes. Huh Im in his book, Acupuncture and moxibustion clinical experiences, recommends the following acupuncture…
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Lethargy
Lethargy When you feel so lethargic that you do not want to move your legs and shoulders, and instead you just want to lie in bed, applying acupuncture at the following points will address the lethargy. BL 20 SP 6 LV13 KI 6 RN 12 ST 41 (Excerpt from Hu Im’s Acupuncture and Moxibustion…
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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…
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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…
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Treatment of infertility using moxibustion
Case study 4: Infertility This is an exerpt from the book, ????? (Infinite Nourishing Moxibustion), written by Dr Namsu Kim. The case is about treatment of infertility due to damp phlegm using direct moxibustion. The patient was a 36 year-old female who had been married for seven years. She and her husband were not together…
