Professor's views on moxibustion sensation / 中国针灸

ABSTRACT

The sensation of heat-sensitive moxibustion (HSM) refers to the heat feeling at distal and deep part of the body when a patient is treated with moxibustion under unhealthy status, which may even transmits to the disease sites, instead of heat feeling at local and superficial part of the body. Professorhas systema-tically studied the HSM sensation and its clinical laws through clinical practice; he points out different HSM sensations contain different physiological and pathological information of the human body, which could reflex the severity of diseases, so the collection of HSM information should be emphasized; the type and intensity of HSM sensation could guide the clinical acupoint selection and precise localization. The appearance and disappearance of HSM sensation could be applied to establish individual amount of moxibustion, and disappearance of HSM sensation is an appropriate signal for sufficient moxibustion time, which break through the concept of fixed time at each acupoint, and provide measurement standard to make full use of moxibustion. The criteria of indications for moxibustion is proposed, indicating the disease in which HSM sensations appear is the optimal indication. The deep and comprehensive understanding on the generation and change of HSM sensation could improve the standardization of HSM standard technique and its efficacy.