[Discussion on prevention and treatment of infectious diseases by using moxibustion for warming yang and strengthening body resistance to eliminate pathogenic cold and qi in ancient and mo-dern literature].

ABSTRACT

Moxibustion therapy has a good therapeutic effect in warming yang, strengthening body resistance to dispel pathogenic cold and qi, thus being able to prevent and treat infectious diseases. There are many records about clinical application of moxibustion to infectious diseases in ancient and modern literature. In the present paper, we expound the specific methods of moxibustion for strengthening the body resistance and preventing infectious diseases and its application in the treatment of miasma, bone steaming disease, cholera, pestis, epidemic hemorrhagic fever and so on, in the records of ancient and modern times, and expound its effectiveness. On this basis, we also proposed the feasibility of moxibustion in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, a new type of infectious disease currently.