"Treatise on febrile diseases" fire therapy is described in the provisions of indication and taboos, become the later "heat syndromes avoid moxibustion view origins. And this one theory has its particular historical background--

Do not by fear fire sticks

YangLiLi Chinese medicine academy of sciences institute of Chinese medicine acupuncture LongDe Yin of wangjing hospital

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        In treatise on febrile disease caused by misuse of fire therapy fire on later generations of inverter card provision of moxibustion use influence is bigger, also make many clinical doctors to the use of hand moxibustion fear fear the feet. "Treatise on febrile diseases" fire therapy is described in the provisions of indication and taboos, become the later "heat syndromes avoid moxibustion view origins. And this one theory there is a specific historical background, at the time, the fire in therapy, but due to the improper operation or dialectical error, caused the various bad disease, ZhangZhongJing unhealthy tendencies, emphasize the importance of their body fluid, and can't explain the exclusive thing, especially moxibustion.

        Moxibustion just was one of the many fire therapy, and is a mild one. Ancient fire treatment is including steaming, smoked, iron, jiu, wen needle (needle burning) and so on the many kinds of systemic and local role with fire the general method, including: (1) smoked method is refers to the use of drugs or burning contain drugs ingredients of steam fumigation treatment of diseases body method, basically have 3 kinds of methods: the ground heat, then at top sprinkle, again above laid mulberry, drugs such as silk sandy, patients lie on the gas in medicine and smoked take sweat; Will boil water or boil the leaf peach leaf water on the bed, take the heat fumigation patients and sweating; To burn the kang elaborate sprinkling sweat the fumigation patients. Such as "the historic · SuWuChuan" load: "force for refused to drop the huns, lead the knife from thorn, servant to death, the huns chi called medical, medical, to cut to camp, buy Yun fire, the wu on its, on its back bleeding, but Sue." The later generations calcined kang method, to dig for pit, such as the length of the people, and to the hot, cloth peach leaf, the pine leaf, chrysanthemum, straw and other drugs in the visible, people lie among them, cover fumigation take sweat, namely Yun category of fire. Steam is wet evaporate, smoked is doing to bake. (2) the iron law is Fried hot for external use the drugs, or brick and tile heat for external use cloth, and then a part of the body temperature iron to remove cold, sweating a treatment method. (3) moxibustion: is the rub ChengYi foliaceous pound ai ai wick or article points on the surface in skin burning treatment smoked. (4) temperature needle (needle burning) : needle burning acupuncture and moxibustion is the combination of a treatment that temperature needle. Temperature is LiuZhen stitches when in the needle on handle wrapped YiRong lit heat the twisting treatment method, also called temperature acupuncture, needle jiu the handle. And when the lights with acupuncture stitches is burned red tip, quickly penetrate into the meridians, and spare, with hand press pinhole, also called the burnt needle, is ancient commonly used sweating methods, many used to treat mind-cold etc card, as QianTianLai have cloud: "the needle burning, heat the needle and take sweat also."

        In the above fire therapy, as the fire evaporate fire smoked, thermal powerful, body function, must be sweating, use proper, natural help, use improper, made to disasters, such as the "treatise on febrile diseases" : "all the back and sweat ironed out, big heat into the stomach, and the stomach, water fountain rashness vexed will send ZhanYu". Above the law, only moxibustion aims to by the temperature, through the meridians therein, the rest of the therapy are sweating. Sticks and work from the body of a point, no sweat wu Yang's situation. And the rest of the therapy is strong heat, it hard to master a sweaty, how many priorities, easy to help hot fire and consumption pneumatic blood. Analysis the fire in the treatise on febrile disease inverter card provisions, misuse fire therapy of 16 (6, 16, 29, 110 ~ 117, 119, 153, 200, 221, 284), moxibustion just fire one of therapy, the book is unfavorable the jiu the disease and syndrome article 2 (115, 116), and unfavorable and burnt needle, needle temperature 7 (16, 29, 117, 118, 119, 153, 221). So although fire can include hub, and it does not represent a fire sticks, if because of the fire caused by rob the adverse reactions, entirely blame on jiu, this is not fair.

        In the fire of the items of the inverter card, explicitly pointed out that the moxibustion provisions of article 115 and article 116 is. Article 115: "pulse float hot very, and the hub, this is the real. Real with empty governance, for fire and move, will swallow dryness, vomiting blood." Article 116: "the number of a pulse, not because of fire and sticks. For, it is vexed inverse; after virtual reality, and scattered by blood veins; internal heat, although the attack in strong muscle, blood, bone bruises coke to complex also. Pulse float, appropriate to sweat solution with fire of sticks, and not out, because, fire and quickly, ill from the waist, will heavy but bi, inverse also. For a fire from the solution, will draw vexed, annoying but sweat and solution. Why the pulse float, know? Home sweat out solution." Article 115 "pulse float very hot" is a real sun be the spirit, with moxibustion, staying in the hot blood, made with the taboo, form the dry, the change of the salivary blood certificate. Article 116 "the number of pulse" for the virtual's hotness and true Yin deficiency, with moxibustion, make XuHuo more quickly, scattered veins of blood, camp Yin more fanciful, bones and muscles is no Yin and keep and with blood loss. A real a virtual, sun be the spirit of more empirical and Yin deficiency of thermal deficiency syndrome, like all should not use moxibustion. It becomes what sticks the card.

        If a careful analysis, ZhangZhongJing at that time of age in and in the face of the medical condition, can more deeply understand the meaning of the two. The era of zhongjing's life is the eastern han dynasty last years, for years, displaced people. At the time, the moxibustion for ai directly jiu jiu the wick, scar, ai wick volume large, strong number, fire is strong, the area is large, deep wounds sores, if not care is vulnerable to infection, the focal bone bruises muscle is unavoidable, so heavy jiu the easy to cause the serious consequences of fire inverse card. The items of the typhoid, we can see that the use of "forced" and more "disaster", "strong responsibility" word, reflects the "fire inverse" and was about was improper. But today is different, soothing mild and indirect jiu jiu and combination of strong festering jiu sharply compared with the big difference. And today the life of people with medical hygiene have physical condition in the past has been improved.

        Person for a Yin and Yang of the whole, the heart que book of yue: "true Yang yuan was due to illness, true Yang qi is people die. Leading off the law, burning ai first, Dan medicine second, third. To 30 aconite, but three years a hub below hilum three hundred strong; 50 can two years a hub below hilum three hundred strong, can be a year a hub sixty below hilum three hundred strong, a forever. More than 50 often sticks close yuan five hundred strong... then it elderly health." The sun be the spirit is an important and the relationship between Yin Yang Lord from, so for "Yin deficiency ban moxibustion is debatable. And in the heart que book also recorded a hole method, the GaoHuang sticks close yuan sticks virtual fatigue syndrome heavy treatment of cases and methods. The moxibustion straight theory of detailed records directly in the process of patients with sticks, each phase of the situation and the performance, the role of different points, from which we can judge whether proper amount sticks. For us to avoid to produce "focal bone bruises muscle" to provide a theoretical guidance, and so is original from the later also typhoid fever of the clinical to objective view.

        In a word, like  li Ming dynasty "medical introduction" said: "the empty, so that the anger sticks to help yuan Yang, the reality of the jiu also, make real evil with internal heat and cold, the spread of sticks, make its gas after temperature also sticks, lead the fever; the gas of the heat outside sends, the fire was dry meaning of also." In the clinical, we want to view the "treatise on febrile diseases" fire in inverse card and the moxibustion, do not get bogged down in the "internal heat, although the attack in strong muscle, blood, bone bruises coke to answer also" provision, draw in the ancient book moxibustion experience, carefully distinguish patients was in the process of dividing the reaction, make moxibustion play a bigger role.