The smoke and smell produced by burning wormwood are basically harmless to human body. To some extent, the smoke and smell produced by the burning of mugwort leaves even have certain therapeutic and health care functions. Someone has done a special study on this. Although the specific effect is not clear, at least, the smoke produced by mugwort leaves has no obvious harm, which is different from cigarettes.

There is no harm in a small amount of moxa smoke, but you must pay attention to ventilation. Excessive inhalation will cause dizziness and brain swelling, and it will also cause throat discomfort. Especially in the room, be sure to ventilate. No matter what objects produce smoke, they all contain gases such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, and the smoke produced by wormwood is no exception, but as long as it is not inhaled for a long time, the harm can be ignored.

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Precautions:

1, attention should be paid to the accuracy of body position and acupoint selection: on the one hand, the body position should meet the needs of moxibustion, and at the same time, attention should be paid to comfortable and natural body position, and accurate parts and acupoints should be found according to the prescription to ensure the effect of moxibustion.

2, fire prevention: many modern clothes are made of chemical fiber, down and other textures, which are easy to burn. Therefore, when applying moxibustion, we must pay attention to fire prevention, especially when using moxa stick moxibustion, to prevent the moxa stick from tumbling off. After moxibustion, the lighted end of the moxa stick can be stuffed into a bottle with a diameter slightly larger than that of the moxa stick to facilitate extinguishing.

3, pay attention to keep warm and prevent heatstroke: Because moxibustion should expose part of the body surface, keep warm in winter and prevent heatstroke in summer, but also pay attention to adjusting the indoor temperature, turn on the ventilator and exchange fresh air in time.

4, to prevent infection: suppurative moxibustion or improper moxibustion, local burns may cause sores, resulting in moxibustion sores, must not break the sores, if the infection has been broken, it is necessary to use anti-inflammatory drugs in time.

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