Moxibustion Therapy

The practice of Classical Acupuncture is inseparable from the practice of moxibustion, a thermal therapy that owes its efficacy to the medical qualities of the moxa herb (Artemesia vulgaris) which contains more than 60 kinds of curative volatile compounds, such as flavonoids and polysaccharides, all of which have very strong anti-oxidant activity, including freeing the tissues of free radicals and acting on the process of lipid peroxidation. Furthermore, the smoke generated by moxibustion has been shown, using solid phase microextraction gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS), to be an air disinfectant, an antibacterial, an antifungal and an antiviral.