Decades of over use in all patients means it was my magic gem.
After using moxa extensively since 1979 in clinic to correct almost anything that came to me when all else – especially when other acupuncturists had not managed to fix whatever – I found that using a moxa stick was the least useful way to moxa. I never used the moxa boxes as that is a lot of excess smoke, for little but feel good results that were not lasting
Moxa on needles was always the most productive
Punk moxa – not gold as back then , it was not obtainable, or taught.
When smokeless moxa arrived – I was rapt as the usual had distressed my lungs since I began using it – however . .
It creates a lot of CO and toxic fumes. No smoke. .
AND DOES NOT WORK.
Those acupuncturists who swear by it, and who teach it – have no idea what the real moxa would do.
Some results – any heat would – but if you look at any research done – it is NOT vibrational, is not giving infra red similarity and is harder to light, use, longer to have any effect . .and it is not a global feel goo d- is only local heat.
I spent years working with ‘moxa hats’ that UDAN sell – and that was smokeless/highly toxic and gave heat – better than nothing I felt.
To use moxa on needles is a skill.
WHY USE MOXA?
See the Reset Your Metabolism course for the full ddeal.
Including the moxa eBooks I have
Seeing what Barbara has done
https://nurturance.net/moxibustion-for-prolapsed-uterus-other-uterine-conditions/
Using a tiger warmer . . great for ear points in my experience = too precise and small an effect on points (have to be specific) and not appropriate for non acupuncturists in my opinion. Barbara has sourced an acup text by Lorraine Wilcox – which is a good start – but she herself says the smokeless is not useful. BUT this is not as useful as undoing why the prolapse and the Yang QI is compromised.
Taking out the cold and restoring the Spleen Yang by knowing heat not to do to keep the inner process
1 – Using smokeless moxa. Thus is unlikely to work as it could
2 – Not pulling cold out first – or locating its storage or conception (when did this begin?)
3 – Not using Rescue Yang points, but local belly ones.