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Acupuncture & Moxibustion
Moxibustion(MOXA)
This traditional medicine method might have much longer history than
acupuncture. Prior to acupuncture, the blood letting therapy had been developed
long time ago, it has benn assumed. My friend, one Mongolian traditonal medicine
Doctor once told me that their ancesters had established and delivered this
hot stimulation on the skin spots toward inland China ,as one of the physical therapies.
Instead of YOMOGI（艾）、 there are lots of grasses to be burn at the steps
in the central Asia and people can use it with ease..
By the way, here in Japan, the long histry of MOXA treatment have we
enjoyed. Now, there are numbers of methods. Among them, I love 糸状灸, which
does not leave any scars on the skin (無痕灸).
Recently, I advised one lady patient in her early forties to do Moxibustion for
her leg problem(Restfulness at the sleeping time). The MOXA did work well on her case.
She got interested in the acupuncture points and started the study of Moxibustion.
Here, all over the Japan, at the drug shops, people can purchase
the simplifed Moxibustion set （カマヤミニ・千年灸） and by insrtruction document,
they can treat themselves with ease.
Ear Acupuncture
（耳の経穴です）
減量のためには 飢点、神門などを使用します。
北京の賀普仁教授
（北京在住の国宝級の鍼灸の名手です。
火針などユニークな治療を行っている）
最近（0517/2006）北米の健康サイトで鍼灸の現代医学の補助としての
援用が紹介されています。運動器系、消化器系の障害以外に、不眠、
呼吸障害、婦人科系・皮膚科系・循環器系の機能障害に、また頭痛、腰痛、慢性疲労症候
群、鬱状態などに効果があるとしています。従来WHOは数十の疾患に対しての
効果を認めてきていますが、最近の欧米ではその適用範囲が広がってきているようです。
L'acupuncture a la rescousse de la medecine occidentale
Par Jocelyne Benoit
The old guidance map for the foreign residents in Tokyo
between latter 1980ies and early 1990ies.
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