Zhu Ai-Jun, Lu Xiao-Dong
Lianyungang City Hospital of TCM, Lianyungang, Jiangsu 222000, China.
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2008 Aug;28(8):623-4.
Acupuncturist makes herbal cakes with traditional manual way, with such disadvantages as slow in making, varying in thickness and size of the cake. When the patients are treated with medical cake-separated moxibustion, they will be unevenly affected by the heat and the patient easily suffers from burning. These hinder clinically wide application of cake-separated moxibustion. With practice of many years, the authors design and make a kind of manual cake-shaping apparatus which can rapidly and conveniently make uniform medical cake, with simple technique, ingenious structure and normal material.
