MOXIBUSTION THERAPY FOR POLLINOSIS II

Abstract

From a viewpoint of the Oriental Medicine, I judged that pollinosis is an abnormal symptom of the lungs system and the large intestine system. So I burnt moxa on some effective spots “Tsubo” of above mentioned systems of the pollinosis patients. About the remedial value, I reported on my first report “MOXIBUSTION THERAPY FOR POLLINOSIS I”.
This time I compared and examined the symptoms of two patient-groups. One group consists of 9 moxibustion therapy patients, and the other consists of 5 medicinal therapy patients who took antiallergic.
A term of treatment was from February to March in 1990.
The effective spots “Tsubo” of moxibustion therapy patients on which I burnt moxa are three spots selected from “Daitsui” and the lungs system the large intestine system of right and left arms. Quantity of moxa is a half grain of rice size, and I burnt the quantity of moxa three times without a break on the same spot. I tried this treatment four times a week.
As the remedial value, the symptoms of moxibustion therapy patients as well as medicinal therapy patients didn't get worse and were steadied on the days when a large number of pollens flew.
When I continued to burn moxa, each symptom of the patient got better in the latter half of the term of treatment.
So I think moxa cautery for pollinosis patients was effective on controling the symptoms.