To begin, use a utility knife to cut out five pieces of ginger. Using a cotton swab, prick five small holes in each ginger piece. Now take the moxa sticks apart, and remove an appropriate amount of moxa.
Need the moxa into a mass in the palm. Then shape it into a cone with a bottom diameter of approximately 0.3 centimeters and a height of 0.3 centimeters. Locate the shenshu acupoint by following the national standard, nomenclature and location of Meridian points.
Disinfect an area of approximately five centimeters around the acupoint. Then cut a hole in the center of the treatment towel and lay it over the shenshu acupoint to insulate the rest of the abdomen and prevent skin burns from the burning moxa. Next place a prepared moxa cone on a piece of ginger and light it.
Using tweezers, transfer the ginger piece onto the patient's shenshu acupoint. After three minutes, place a new moxa cone on top of another ginger piece and light it. Remove the used ginger and moxa cone from the patient's shenshu acupoint.
Extinguish the burnt moxa cone by placing it in water and repeat this process four times, After treatment, the mean COPD assessment test score in the treatment group decreased to 18.00 from a pre-treatment score of 22.00, while the control group decreased to 19.44 from 21.22. The mean stool characteristics and defecation frequency score in the treatment group decreased to 3.33 from a pre-treatment score of 8.44 while the control group decreased to 4.44 from 8.67.
