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Moxibustion - Case Studies
Pushing the Envelope of Moxibustion abstracted & translated by
Honora Lee Wolfe, Dipl. Ac., Lic. Ac., FNAAOM
For a number of years now I have been saying that the modern Chinese teachings
on moxibustion emanating from the People’s Republic of China have been overly
narrow and doctrinaire. Having studied moxibustion with pre-Liberation Chinese,
Chinese from Hong Kong and Singapore, and both Japanese and Korean
practitioners, it is my experience that moxibustion can be used to treat many
more conditions than many contemporary Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion
textbooks suggest.
As part of my drive to broaden the Western understanding and scope of
moxibustion, I am always on the look-out for Chinese articles which substantiate
this point of view.
In issue #11, 2002 of the Shang Hai Zhong Yi Yao Za Zhi
(Shanghai Journal of Chinese Medicine & Medicinals), Xu Jie, of the Acupuncture
& Moxibustion Orthopedic & Tramatology Department of the Jiangxi College of
Chinese Medicine, published an article titled, “Lifting the Borders of the
Artemisia Moxibustion Method of Treatment,†| |
