[Approach to increasing therapeutic effect of moxibustion]

The authors sum up some methods for increasing therapeutic effect of moxibustion through long-term and a great number of investigations. For moxibustion, proper moxibustion methods should be selected for different patient's condition, and points are selected fewer but better, accurately find response position and use enough moxibustion amount, making the patient produce comfortable moxibustion sensation. Put forward the concept of deqi and the method for point-through-point moxibustion, i. e., judge moxibustion amount, moxibustion time and therapeutic results according to skin response of the patient after moxibustion, and even flush and sweating on local skin after moxibustion are used for standard of point-through-point moxibustion. The present article specially indicates that moxibustion-box moxibustion is of advantages of convenient manipulation, easily control of temperature and high safety, and can be widely applied clinically.