Experience ofpreventing bronchial asthma by blistering therapy of dog-day moxibustion / 中国针灸

ABSTRACT

Professorowns unique experience of preventing bronchial asthma by the blistering therapy of dog-day moxibustion. He believes that the method has the action of festering moxibustion without its adverse reaction, the pathogenesis of asthma is the impairment of the dispersing and descending of the lung. When the lung,the spleen and the kidney are deficient,pathogenic factors,such as phlegm,damp and the cold,twist in the lung and the air passage is blocked, then asthma happens. Blistering therapy with little but fierce medicines acquires the features of specific but overall acupoints and more big blister. Meanwhile,with the emphasis on communication and nursing service,the therapy is apparently effective and worth widely using.