Xu Jing, Jia Chun-Sheng
School of Acupuncture-moxibustion and Tuina, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang 050200, China.
Zhen Ci Yan Jiu. 2021 Aug 25;46(8):717-20. doi: 10.13702/j.1000-0607.201079.
Moxibustion therapy has a good therapeutic effect in warming yang, strengthening body resistance to dispel pathogenic cold and , 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.
艾灸疗法在温阳、增强机体抵抗力以驱散寒邪方面具有良好的治疗效果，因而能够预防和治疗传染病。古今文献中有许多关于艾灸在传染病临床应用的记载。在本文中，我们阐述了艾灸增强机体抵抗力、预防传染病的具体方法，及其在古今记载中对瘴气、骨蒸病、霍乱、鼠疫、流行性出血热等疾病治疗中的应用，并阐述了其疗效。在此基础上，我们还提出了艾灸在预防和治疗当前新型传染病 COVID-19 方面的可行性。
