(1797–1815), he reported “happy and extraordinary results” on an assortment of disorders in his book, On the Use of the Moxa as a Therapeutical Agent (1822). Larrey testified to remarkable results in morbid cases; he also reported on failures he examined after death. Larrey asked his student Robley Dunglison to translate his book into English.
Robley
Dunglison (1798–1869), the first great American medical writer and
the father of preventive medicine, wrote more than 30 medical books. Dunglison described moxibustion and acupuncture as counterirritants in General Therapeutics (1836). The entry under “Actual Cauterants” discussed moxa: “Accordingly, the use of the moxa has … nervous influence; and many deep-seated pains have yielded to it, which had resisted the action of the ordinary counterirritants, though repeatedly applied” (p. 338). While discussing revulsive
medicine Dunglison described using strong counterirritation to drain toxins in extreme cases. Then after discussing experimental and extreme measures to keep a sore issuing fluid for long periods, Dunglison wrote that he preferred blisters.
He noted that his teacher Baron Larrey preferred the gentle method of reddening the skin, “when they use the moxa, they endeavor to restrict its effects
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pain when other counterirritants failed. Unfortunately, America was not ready for moxa.
More recently, in 1981, Roger
Newman Turner and Royston H. Low described this folk medicine in their book, The Principles and Practice of Moxibustion, which detailed their experience of using moxibustion in clinical practice in England. In the United States, Asian
communities still use the moxa stick for pain, but it is not used much by Caucasian acupuncturists. A few massage schools that teach Asian massage also teach the moxa stick. When
the most sensitive patients arrive in my office with the most horrible
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to the rubefaction it occasions.” Professor Dunglison taught that compared to other counterirritants, moxibustion was the best at relieving nerve pain and deep-seated pain. In addition, moxibustion could relieve
pain, I marvel at the simplicity of the idea: Stimulate an acupoint by suspending the glowing hot tip of a moxa stick above the skin! It feels sooo good deep down where it hurts! Though it never pierces the skin, it reaches the deep pain like a magic needle. Part of this article was excerpted
from Fire Your Pain with Moxibustion by Michael Turk. See moxa stick therapy on YouTube channel getqi; also visit
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