Taboo of ginger-separated moxibustion

Ginger-separated moxibustion is forbidden for patients with heat and excess disease. As the name suggests, ginger-separated moxibustion is to place ginger slices on acupoints and burn them with moxa cone. This method uses the pungent and warm properties of ginger and moxa, which can stimulate yang qi, clear channels and expel cold, regulate qi and eliminate dampness, warm qi and blood, and harmonize Ying and Wei to improve body functions. It can be found that ginger-separated moxibustion is suitable for patients with cold, wet and deficiency. On the other hand, if the patient with hot constitution and excess disease pathogen should not choose ginger moxibustion therapy. Then how to judge the hot and excess disease pathogen? Hot patients can show: sore throat, thirst like cold drinks, red face, bad breath, constipation, yellow urine, red tongue, slippery pulse number and other symptoms; solid patients can show: blood stasis syndrome; stone obstruction syndrome.