Acupunture-Moxibustion

 Moxibustion- Heating or burning certain areas of the  body with the powdered leaves of the moxa plant ( Latin name: Artemesia Vulgaris).

Acupuncture- This is a form of point injection therapy. ( Latin: Acus- needle; punctura- to penetrate)

Acupuncture- Moxibution is one of the most ancient and characteristic therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine. Very broadly speaking, the acupuncture technique was from ancient times onwards thought most valuable in both acute and chronic diseases, while moxa was more appropriate in the chronic ones.

Different environments gave rise to different incidences of endemic disease, hence the invention of different therapeutic methods. Thus, moxibustion came mainly from the North, materia medica and pharmacy came from the West, and gymnastics, remidial exercises and massage from the centre. But acupuncture originated in the East, where people suffered greatly from boils and carbuncles.

Acupuncture is a system of therapy which has been in constant use throughout chinese culture area for some four and a half thousand years; and the labours of a multitude of devoted men and women, through the centuries, have given it a highly developed doctrine and a set of rules to carry out the clinical practice.