After acupuncture, the patient's local soreness, numbness, swelling and pain may occur, which is a normal conditioning reaction, and some patients with weak constitution and blocked meridians feel more obvious. These uncomfortable symptoms can usually last for 3-7 days, and some patients may also experience mild redness, bruising, or nodules, which resolve on their own in about a week.
Contraindications to acupuncture
1. It is necessary to grasp the amount of moxibustion for the first time, first a small amount and a small dose, such as using small moxa, or the time of moxibustion is shorter and the number of times is less. Increase the dose later, don't start with a high dose.
2. For people with dysesthesia or children, the index finger and middle finger can be placed on both sides of the moxibustion site to perceive the temperature of the moxibustion site, so that it will not cause burns, and can receive good results.
3. Because part of the body surface should be exposed during moxibustion, it is necessary to keep warm in winter, so as not to cure old diseases and add new diseases.
4. Moxibustion is contraindicated when extremely tired, hungry, full, drunk, sweating, emotionally unstable, during certain infectious diseases, high fever, coma, convulsions, or when the body is extremely exhausted, skinny, or people who have no self-control, such as mentally ill patients.